Richard III - Elizabeth Themes Flashcards

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Grief

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  • emphasises cruelty by her losses
  • women used to emphasise losses, one-dimensional, used for sadness, powerless?
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Perspicacious

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  • takes York into sanctuary
  • initially in the play she is the only character who sees through R (only women)
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Curses - language

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  • power of grief, vengeance
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Powerful or powerless (women)?

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  • elevated her own status
  • unity in curses
  • perspicacity
  • powerless, victim to woes of men - only reacts
  • seems persuaded by R to marry off her daughter
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Turning wheel of fortune

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  • Elizabethan belief, demonstrates this
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Performance skill

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  • marrying daughter scene, seems to capitulate but maintains control in contrast to Anne - more powerful?, also forces the truth out of R why he wants to marry her (strength/power?)
  • reconciliation scene, appears to reconcile, but like R we are aware this is likely to be false
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