Citizens of the United States after reading the opening paragraph would hopefully agree with that vague statement, but if you were an Elizabethan you would probably strongly disagree with this statemen. The Elizabethan era was much different, they had no choice on who their king would be. Elizabethans believed that God appointed their king and even if the Elizabethans did not feel that the chosen king was fit to rule or that he was corrupt, the Elizabethans felt that God chose this king to punish them.

The King ruled by divine rights, “The Divine Right of Kings, indicates that this theory involved the following propositions:

(1) Monarchy is a divinely ordained institution.

(2) Hereditary right is indefeasible. The su

In conclusion there is a definite biblical theme throughout this play. Ironically each theme, Judas, Cain and Abel, even with Richard himself, they all are focused around betrayal. Richard’s Christ like attitude eventually leads him to his fall from the thrown. IF Richard would not have been so focused on himself and his wants Richards fair day would have existed or continued.

You truly see how warped Richard is into the idea that when you are king you have superior physical qualities in act IV,I,276 when he asks for the mirror. As Richard looks into the mirror he says, “No deep wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck so many blows upon this face of mine and made no deeper wounds?” Richard has the idea I believe that by him stepping down from the thrown and the sorrow that he feels will turn inside out and that he will go through some physical change. Unfortunately the only physical change we see Richard go through is at the end of the play when he instead of voicing his anger or other opinions he uses physical force for the first time and kills a man before being killed himself.

(3) Kings are accountable to God alone. Monarchy is pure, the sovereignty being entirely vested in the king, whose power is incapable of legal limitation. All law is a mere concession of his will, and all constitutional forms and assemblies exist entirely at his pleasure. He cannot limit or divide or alienate the sovereignty, so as in any way to prejudice the right of his successor to its complete exercise. A mixed or limited monarchy is a contradiction in terms.

There are other biblical references within the play that Richard makes that compare him to Christ. The first being the mention of the biblical characters Cain and Abel. Richard in I,I, 104-106 is talking about Gloucester whose, “blood, like sacrificing Abel’s,

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