| Quote #1 Richard's first mention of his relation to his family
prepares us for the way family will function in the play.
Richard speaks of deceiving one brother to imprison the other.
He even explicitly compares himself to his brother Edward,
saying that he is all the evil that Edward is not. Thus we get
the hint that family will not be about the ties and the love
that bind people. Instead, it's just one more instrument Richard
will use to manipulate and spread his hate. | Quote #2 Richard
implicitly draws a comparison between himself and Anne's dead
husband, the murdered Prince Edward, by pointing out their old
family connection. By invoking the Plantagenet name, Richard
goes far back to the original family from which the two warring
houses, Lancaster and York, sprang. Amidst all the animosity in
the play, it's easy to forget that the warring Lancasters and
Yorks are actually related by blood (hence the dispute).
Remembering the family connection between the Lancasters and
Yorks also makes all the quarreli