Lord Hastings: A Justification To Omit Regret
Lord Hastings: A Justification to Omit Regret
We, the audience, lend our ears and nod our heads at the exactness of Lord Hastings\'s uttering:
I think there\'s never a man in Christendom,
Can lesser hide his love or hate than he,
For by his face shall you know his heart. (3.4.51-53).
Ironically, we do not assent to his words because they are exactly in the right, but because they are exactly in the wrong. By Act III, Richard III exhibits a pallet of personalities including the devoted brother, the witty wooer, and the loyal subject. We see that these almost Platonic ideals are tarnished black under the rule of Richard\'s perfectly evil intent to manipulate. Lord Hastings, however, could not see until it was too late. The time to weigh the validity of the supernatural signs and omens in Stanley’s dream had past. Before his death, Lord Hastings misperceives the \"subtle, false, and treacherous\" Richard, and only saw the face (i.e. the theatrical abilities of Richard),......
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