Richard III - Queen Margaret
1) Queen Margaret has the role of prophetess in the play, but her warnings are ignored. Make a chart listing all of Margaret's various curses and predictions. Fill in when and how they are fulfilled as you study the play.Queen Margaret curses/prophesises the following: 3) Queen Elizabeth to live long, and be not wife, mother, or Queen (by all this, made miserable); 4) Rivers, Dorset, and Hastings to die unnatural deaths; 5) Richard III to be friends of traitors and betrayed by friends whom he will always suspicious of; 6) Richard III to be haunted by his dreams and be brought to justice by heavens means; 7) Queen Elizabeth to later wish for Margaret's help in cursing Richard III 8) That only after her prophesies are fulfilled will she be seen as a genuine prophetess 9) Margaret spares Buckingham telling him he hasn't wronged her, although she does warn him about allying with Richard. After he insults her she curses him too. A murderous villain, and so still thou art. ________________________________________________________________
I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him; I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune; Have not to do with him, beware of him; They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens; Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
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Approximate Word count = 1869
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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