Determinism / providentialism / prophecy / fate

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“And say poor Margaret was a prophetess”

Margaret

Act 1 Scene 3

“Leave it all to God”

Third Citizen

Act 2 Scene 3

“Welcome, destruction, blood and massacre. / I see, as in a map, the end of all.”

Elizabeth

Act 2 Scene 4

“He dreamt the boar had razed his helm”

Messenger (on Stanley’s dream)

Act 3 Scene 2

“Now Margaret’s curse is fall’n upon our heads”

Grey

Act 3 Scene 3

“Miserable England, / I prophesy the fearfull’st time to thee / That ever wretched age hath looked upon”

Hastings

Act 3 Scene 4

“All unavoided is the doom of destiny”

Richard III

Act 4 Scene 4

“Thus Margaret’s curse falls heavy upon my neck”

Buckingham

Act 5 Scene 1