A voiceover is utilised in order to give the audience an understanding of the play’s context, whilst explaining why Anne fell for Richard so easily. ![]() The Omission of phrases on Richard’s physical deformity is integrated within the scene, in order to make the play appropriate to modern society, by focusing the source of Richard’s evilness on his psychological state, rather than his physical deformities. Al Pacino cleverly utilises chiaroscuro through the use of shadows and light, in order to contrast the dark and monstrous Richard, to the innocent Anne. In the scene where Anne is wooed by Richard, the use of medium camera angles and turning away is used to reinforce that Anne is subservient to the powerful Richard. Looking for Richard is set in a secular society, so Pacino focuses on Richard’s ambitions and how far he will go to achieve power, rather than religious tensions. Shakespeare involves us through the desertion of our own conscience, in order to portray power’s corruption of humanity. Once Anne has left the stage, in a soliloquy Richard proclaims, “Was ever a woman in this humour wooed? Was a woman in this humour won”? Shakespeare’s incorporation of anaphora through the repetition of “Was ever”, in conjunction with the repeated rhetorical questions almost forces the audience to admire his rhetorical skill, despite his cruelty, making us complicit in his scheming. Shakespeare also employs an antithesis, in order to criticise Richard’s ambitions for power, whilst the dichotomy of Gods earth and hell reinforces the extent to which the Elizabethans saw morality, in terms of extreme positions. ![]() In the scene which takes its form in stichomythic dialogue and soliloquy’s, religious imagery is utilised in “Thou hast made happy earth thy hell” in order to exemplify Richard’s desertion of religious morality, reasoning his evil behaviour to this cause. Shakespeare portrays Richard as a Machiavellian character, and as the protagonist who has a secular worldview. In Act 1 Scene 2, Richard woos Anne, whose father-in law and brother had been murdered by. The Elizabethan era was in a time of tension between free will and providentialism, and religious ideologies are a major theme in the play. ![]() In the early Elizabethan period, the audience was familiar with Machiavellian ideas including “The Prince: Politics have no relation to morals”, which contained ideologies including “Politics have no relations to morals” and “It is better to be feared than loved”. Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard III’, highlights the pursuit of power and its consequences.
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