Richard III - Anne Themes

Question 1

Curses

Answer 1

• balanced, ritualistic power
• power from extent of grief and suffering
• but inadvertently curses herself

Question 2

Power

Answer 2

• curses
• language - viturperous anger, insults R, compares him to hellish creature (often used :/)
• challenges R’s claims and is able to engage in stichomythia
• soliloquy, has a voice, refers to herself as ‘poor Anne’ (powerless?)

Question 3

Powerless

Answer 3

• vulnerable position in society, male relatives dead
• agrees to marry R despite scale of obstacles (body literally bleeding on stage)
• admits later that she fell ‘captive to his honey words’
• killed so that R can marry E’s daughter