Character Analysis Of Edward IV, By William Shakespeare

The play starts off with Richard, the play’s protagonist, talking about how unattractive he looks compared to other members of his royal family and everyone else. Richard talks about how he had been “Cheated of features by dissembling nature”, “Deformed”, “unfinished”, “scarce half made up”, he uses all these negative words to show how hideous he looks. Unlike him, Edward IV, the brother and Richard, currently the King of England has no sort of deformity and is the biggest enemy of Richard at this time of the play right now. Richard wants his brother to be killed so that he can be crowned as the next prince of England. Richard also can’t seem to get all the women as seen in the play where he says “I cannot prove a lover”, this also contributes
From the way he speaks, we can say that he is a very skilful speaker. He has a different tone and attitude when he is speaking alone and a different persona when he’s speaking with someone else present in the stage. Richard is so good at lying that he would successfully convinces the audience the sympathy he has for his brothers, if he didn’t talk about how he planned to kill his brothers. His ability to manipulate other people’s emotions are just beyond this
Richard makes sure he’s loyal because he is trying to get Buckingham prove the people that Richard is the right King for England. Richard’s evil plans can be seen as the most brilliant and most manipulative plan, especially in Act 3. Not only Richard lies, he also passes these traits toward his mate, Buckingham, Buckingham has learned many things from Richard on how to lie and manipulate people. He tells Buckingham to address the London mayor about how Hastings was a traitor. Buckingham was also ordered to give a speech that would stir up bad feeling about the young princes saying that they weren’t the right ones to obtain the throne. By doing this, he is trying to convince people that Richard is the one to be crowned as King. At the same time, to secure his throne, he hires some other people to kill Clarence’s sons. And by lying to the mayor, they make sure that they prevent the mayor from suspecting that Richard might’ve been the one who plotted against Hastings. This plan shows how eager Richard wants to be the next crowned King of England. Richard also tries the technique of reverse psychology when trying to convince the people. Before he lets the people turn against him and speak against him, Richard himself brings up arguments on why he shouldn't be crowned the next King. When he says this, Buckingham instantly