Good And Evil In Thomas More's Richard III
Thomas More refers to Henry VII as “the noble prince, King Henry the Seventh.”
(p.82) However, he described Richard’s deformity as a symbol of malice and evil of
Richard’s inner self. “Richard, the third son, of whom we now treat, was in wit and courage equal with either of them, in body and prowess far underthem both: little of stature, ill featured of limbs, crooked-backed, his left shoulder much higher than his right, hard-favored in appearance, and such as is in the case of lords called warlike, in other men called otherwise. He was malicious, wrathful, envious, and from before his birth, ever perverse.” (P.5) One of the famous crime of the More’s Richard III shows him as a complete tyrant and his murder implies his destructive
figure by describing how two young princes dead in the Tower of London. “Bury them at the stair-foot, suitably deep in the ground, under a great heap of stones.” (p.77) More tend to describe Richard’s status as a usurper, and remove any legal validity his reign had. More’s history is biased.
(p.82) However, he described Richard’s deformity as a symbol of malice and evil of
Richard’s inner self. “Richard, the third son, of whom we now treat, was in wit and courage equal with either of them, in body and prowess far underthem both: little of stature, ill featured of limbs, crooked-backed, his left shoulder much higher than his right, hard-favored in appearance, and such as is in the case of lords called warlike, in other men called otherwise. He was malicious, wrathful, envious, and from before his birth, ever perverse.” (P.5) One of the famous crime of the More’s Richard III shows him as a complete tyrant and his murder implies his destructive
figure by describing how two young princes dead in the Tower of London. “Bury them at the stair-foot, suitably deep in the ground, under a great heap of stones.” (p.77) More tend to describe Richard’s status as a usurper, and remove any legal validity his reign had. More’s history is biased.