How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
Quote #10
RICHARD
For I will buzz abroad such prophecies
That Edward shall be fearful of his life;
And then to purge his fear, I'll be thy death.
King Henry and the prince his son are gone.
Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,
Counting myself but bad till I be best.
I'll throw thy body in another room,
And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom. (5.6.87-94)
Richard can't hear about his fate and just let it go; he turns the whole dark future he's just heard about on its head. He actively lays out his step-by-step plan of how to get the crown. If he's willfully deciding how to become king, then there would seem to be no fate controlling him—as least as far as he's concerned. The events in Richard III may prove him wrong.