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This is the first 1,000 characters of 954 words (3.82 pages) in the essay titled richard III Was Richard III a monster or a victim of history?Richard the III was a horrible tyrant who would stop at nothing to commit the most unthinkable acts to get what he wanted. He was a man that would kill his own family and children to obtain his one goal, which was to become the king. I know what I should be easy on the guy he couldn t have been that bad of a guy. Well, you have to forgive me I was really unable to form an opinion of Richard. I saw Shakespeare s adaptation of his life and I was convinced that he was this terrible man. Then I read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. She had a much different perspective on Richard, she explained that in a lot of ways Richard was a good guy. She explains that the events that took place such as the deaths of many of his relatives were just coincidences. In this paper I will explain how we can never trust history and I will use the comparison of these two adaptations of Richard the III. Was Richard the III a horrible man or just a victim of history? There are two sides to every story, on one hand he was a good king that was misunderstood for his methods of becoming a king. On the other he was a horrible tyrant who would do anything to get to the top. This is why we must be so careful about and can t take history for granted. We have two stories of Richard; one Shakespeare s adaptation of the story depicts him as a horrible bloodthirsty maniac. Next we have Josephine Tey s The Daughter of Time which has a much different accou... |
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Keywords: josephine tey, tyrant, shakespeare, monster, daughter of time, adaptation, victim, brother, richard i, king of england, unthinkable acts, horrible man, one step further, different perspective, loving hand, two sides to every story, hunchback, richard the iii, richard iii