Divine retribution and God’s judgement

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead, / Or earth gape open wide and eat him quick”

Anne

Act 1 Scene 2

“God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.”

Margaret

Act 1 Scene 3

“God I pray Him / That none of you may live his natural age, / But by some unlooked accident cut off.”

Margaret

Act 1 Scene 3

“Sin, death and hell have set their marks on him”

Margaret

Act 1 Scene 3

“I have done those things, / That now give evidence against my soul”

Clarence

Act 1 Scene 4

“The urging of that word “judgement” hath breed a kind of remorse in me”

Second Murderer

Act 1 Scene 4

“Relent, and save your souls”

Clarence

Act 1 Scene 4

“I am in / So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.”

Richard III

Act 4 Scene 2

“Thou wilt die by God’s just ordinance”

The Duchess of York (to Richard III)

Act 4 Scene 4

“Bloody thou art; bloody will be thy end. / Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.”

The Duchess of York (to Richard III)

Act 4 Scene 4

“God and good angels fight on Richmond’s side, / And Richard falls in height of all his pride”

Ghost of Buckingham

Act 5 Scene 3

“One that hath ever been God’s enemy. / Then if you fight against God’s enemy, / God will, in justice, ward you as his soldiers”

Richmond (about Richard III)

Act 5 Scene 3