A Response To Richard's Journey

Richard’s response is given after Lady Anne, she states “Would they were basilisks’ to strike thee dead.” referring to mythological creatures whose glances were deadly. As Richard realizes that his current approach of wooing Lady Anne had failed remarkably, he decides to advance his plan by taking over Lady Anne’s vulnerability by placing the blame for the deaths on her beauty so that she could see Richard’s actions as a boyish act performed solely based on one’s mind when they are in love. Richard opens his speech with “I would they were, that I might die at once” where in this case, ‘would’ means to wish. This opening line shows that Richard’s has changed his character as he suddenly wishes to be punished for his sinful actions. Wishing for his own death, he weakens his current state of being …show more content…
By comparing his sinful actions to a living death, he produces a verbally puzzling comparison by personifying the horrific concept of death to be living. He opens his suffering lover act by commenting on her beauty, starting with her eyes in which he claims to “have drawn salt tears” which starts to feminize Richard although being a misogynistic individual. By introducing his vulnerability, he plans to slowly gain her trust through this fake courtship. He continues to emphasize his love for her eyes and consequently, compares his tears to “childish drops” in which he tears them shamefully describing it to be“shamed their aspect”. By comparing his tears to that of childish drops, he continues to slowly unravel his vulnerability even more and continue to expand on the concept of a suffering lover. He then sheds light on the importance of his sudden vulnerability by explaining that his eyes have “never shed remorseful tears”. By doing so, he explains to Lady Anne that not even the most heartbreaking times of his life caused him to