Richard III - Margaret Themes

Question 1

Isolated

Answer 1

• asides
• theatrical imagery
• but achieved unity via suffering?
  
  • joins in with mourning, anaphora and epistrophe emphasises losses
  • teaches E how to curse

Question 2

M fixated on revenge

Answer 2

Fury
Theatrical imagery
Aside
- idea of balance
- sympathetic
- callous when juxtaposed with images of suffering
Appetite imagery used to suggest desire for revenge
Series of metaphors insulting Elizabeth

Question 3

M as unsympathetic/cruel

Answer 3

• metaphor of Duchess’ womb as ‘kennel’ for a destructive, predatory dog
• delight - R preying on own family so they share her suffering
• Duchess’ words emphasise comparing E’s past status/current losses + anaphoric questions enumerating losses

Question 4

Emphasises bloody + destructive consequences of War of the Roses

Answer 4

Wheel of fortune etc.

Question 5

Emphasises turning of wheel of fortune

Answer 5

Common Elizabethan theme/belief

Question 6

Curses

Answer 6

• divine justice
• power
• reminder of R’s eventual downfall
• power in 4.4 teaches E to curse
  
  • words have some power or limited power
  • words metaphorically sharpened/imbued with power via suffering