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kinsmen of Edward, Queen Elizabeth, the two young princes and Queen. Anne. These people were killed because he needed to get the throne for his greed. Only a villain would commit these crimes for his greed.
He breeds anger in Clarence and the populace, not of himself, but of Edward and the rightful heirs. "We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe,"3 he exclaims as his brother is hauled away to the tower. He preys on the "hateful luxury And bestial appetite"4 of the citizenry, catapulting himself to the thrown over a heap of bodies: deaths that hang on his head. But, it is Richard's attitude that his end goal of the crown justifies the murderous means that so closely links ...
had Clarence killed so that he could have an uncontested line to the throne. Shakespeare also said that Richard killed young
...r so he killed him and then took his throne and wife. Lastly, Oberon from A Midsummer Night’s Dream causes a variety of chaos over a small child that his wife refuses to hand over. All of these villains have at least one thing in common; they were all making everyone else suffer for their own gain.
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· Ambition was his only reason for killing the king – “I have no spur