Richard Villain Quotes

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In Richard III, Richard is introduced as a villain who has extraordinary skills with words and wins the throne with them; however, his malicious personality is a ‘product’ of the environment around him. He suffers with the fact that no one likes with his physical appearance- hunchback and deformity. Even his mother, Duchess doesn’t like him; “Thou cams't on earth to make the earth my hell. A grievous burthen was thy birth to me; Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy; Thy school days frightful, desp'rate, wild, and furious” (p. 262). This quote shows the reason why Richard becomes a villain; he isn’t even loved by a person who gave birth to him. “Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time into this breathing world, scarce half made up” (p. 2). Richard

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