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Richard the 3rd

Shakespeare´s play and Loncraine`s movie

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Index

Introduction

Pursuit of power

Fate vs. Free Will

The Role of Women

Can you summarize the plot?

Plot Summary

Soziogram

Pursuit of power

what does power mean to you?

socially personally friends family career

Do you remember the underlying reasons?

Richard´s desires

mentally

societally

physically

high social status and good reputation hightes goal to become king

desires control over other people´s minds demands absolute loyalty

compensation of physical deficites want´s to be as strong as others

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Richard´s actions

and characteristics

spreads rumours and manipulates

gets rid of opponents

utilises family, friends and others

flatters and acts

kills allies

->compensation of deficites ->feels inferiour ->want´s to belong to a group ->desires love and admiration ->craves approval because of low self- esteem ->revenge of society for feeling wronged

@Act 2, Szene 4

Ay me, I see the ruin of my house! The tiger now hath seiz'd the gentle hind; Insulting tyranny begins to jet Upon the innocent and aweless throne. Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre! I see, as in a map, the end of all.

Does richard act on his own volition?

Fate Vs. Free Will

Fate inElizabethan Society

GOD AS AN ACTIVE, Engaged force

Determinism

The Chain Of Being

The great hierarchy of all living beings

Pseudoscience: FACE-READING

Physiognomy

pSEUDOSCIENCE: Bodily fluids

The Humours

A quick test

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Fate & Richard

Chaos & Disorder

His Humours

Deformity

Bad Mixture of Blood, Phlegm and Biles leads to Richard's destructive personality.

Disruption of the Order introduced by "The Great Chain of Being": Neccessitates Punishment.

"Cheated of feature by dissembling nature": Unfavourable Physiognomy.

Free will in Richard III

hOW IS IT PRESENT THROUGHOUt?

Elements of Free Will

pLANNING

Richard's constant scheming seems to intricate for Fate.

Responsibility

Machiavelli

Both Richard as well as the other characters consider him responsible for his actions.

Emphazises Free Will, Richard should thus also be acting volunatrily.

The Supernatural

Ghost & ProhPHECIES

Ghosts: Blame Richard

Prophecy: Hint at Fate

Comparison

fATE VS fREE wILL

fREE wILL

fate

"I am determined to prove a villain"

"I am determined to prove a villain"

Connections to other topics

What are your ideas?

The Role of Women

Women

in Elizabethan times

underestimated

Belonged to Men

Not allowed on the stage

Allowed to marry from the age of 12

possessions

Important Characters

Film vs. Play

Margaret

fierce Prophetess

Naive and Powerless trophy

Lady Anne Neville

Broken-hearted and enraged mother

The Dutchess of York

Queen Elizabeth

Devastated widow

• Men hold all the power in the play.

• The women are bound by a sense of feminine solidarity.

• The women provide a dramatic contrast to Richard and his male followers.

Function of the Women

Divine Retribution

Voices of Protest and Morality

Elizabethan World View

The lamentations and cries for revenge underline that justice from a divine realm is needed.

The disruption of moral order brings about destruction.

The women see through Richard's intrigues and predict consequences.

Women

in the novel Frankenstein

Similarities ?

Differences ?