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vaguely-concerned · 5 days ago

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CLIFFORD'S dying speech in Henry VI Part 3:

Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds; No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight: The foe is merciless, and will not pity; For at their hands I have deserved no pity.

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RICHARD at the end of his Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad ghost sleepover party before the final battle in Richard III:

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul shall pity me: Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

just. what if you became the mirror image of the very thing you have hated the most in this world and you have absolutely no one to blame for it but yourself. would that be fucked up. or what.

#venn diagram with child murder in the middle (mutually derogatory)#richard iii #henry vi part 3 #shakespeare #this is why R3 is even more insane-making seen in the context of the rest of the history plays #all these narrative foils building on each other all the wrongs on every side piling up like a mountain of corpses #blotting out the horizon burying and crushing anything that might once have been good and true here.#drowning everything in blood #so come to you and yours as you have dealt to me and mine. may you be shown the mercy you have shown to me. that's the curse #and it doesn't stop until basically everyone is dead. god. fuck.#like when you realize that for all the horrors he unleashes richard is not even an outlier in cruelty!!!#he is not the exception his otherness makes it easy and more comfortable for the other characters to pretend he is #margaret's edward gets stabbed by york edward before richard and george pile on and yet afterwards everyone is like #'smh how could richard specifically do this. born with teeth etc.' fhkjsa. like let's not get it twisted he's not innocent of Anything.#but like also. interesting. you guys think this has nothing to do with you huh. I see.#man the fact that richard in many ways IS the most like their father. he has the patience and calculation of york #the instinct and ability to watch and plot and dissemble until the moment is right #(where edward and george are impulsive YOLO people and it's a different kind of catastrophic to everyone around them haha.)#and how their mother HATES him for it. for both very reasonable and good and very bad ugly reasons. unspeakable stuff #wounds that bleed and bleed and never heal etc.

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