Examine the ways in which Richard (from Richard 3 by Shakespeare) manages to win Anne. Consider his success or failure.

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Ryan Sabet

Examine the ways in which Richard manages to win Anne. Consider his success or failure.

Over all Richard has his way with twisting words and toying with people’s emotion in order to get what he wants. In this case he was Anne and he changes her opinion of him to like him rather than to detest him.

The first interaction that we see between Richard and Anne is when Richard enters the scene and tells the progression of the coffin to stop. At this point we then read how Anne feels towards Richard when she called him “the devil” and how “a soul thou canst not have” showing how at this point, she has no respect or feelings towards and considers him to be inhuman in her eyes.

His first attempt at winning Anne over was when she said how wonderful when “devils tell the truth!” and he replies by saying how it is more wonderful “when angles are so angry” in an attempt to complement her and by asking her for a chance to explain himself and calling her “divine perfection of a woman”. She feels differently and calls him “diffused infection of man”.

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He then tries again to gain her good will when she asked if he killed the king and he accepts it, she sys how he (the king) was “gentle, mild, and virtuous” and he later goes onto say that the king should thank him for killing him as “he was fitter for that place earth.” This showing how he way trying to make her see things in a positive light rather than what it really was.

She then goes onto say that he will go to hell but Richard says that that hell is not the only place and ...

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