Richmond represents the light, the good , and life. He stands for what we should all be, and opposes all that we should. The victory of each skirmish tends to get the power, and then gets to write the history. When the victor writes teh history, the loser is written off as the dark, the death, the void. This would be Richard. Richard embodies evil, murder, and death. But how can we really tell if this is the truth? For all we know, Richmond was the bad one, not Richard. That is the case in all these skirmishes. Some of these soldiers are obviously on one side or the other, people like Hitler are obviously on the negative side.
When Richmond gives his oration to his army, he’s speaking not only to them, but also to God. He believes he is on the light side, the side fighting for God and all that is good. He’s trying to convince everyone that HE is the light, a savior of England, and the future king. He represents all that your parents told you you should be. His purpose is simply to defeat the darkness, to defeat death. He attempts to do so by rallying the men who support him. His