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Examples Of The Flaws In The Daughter Of Time

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Flaws in the Main Argument of The Daughter of Time In The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, the main character Alan Grant comes to the conclusion that King Richard III did not kill his nephews due to circumstantial evidence. However, many of his arguments, which he seems to think are bulletproof, are actually quite flawed. Most of his case is based on assumptions, rather than hard evidence. In a court, he would not be able to win a case based on assumptions about people and their biases; he would need to present proof that Richard did not kill his nephews, and was not a tyrant. Not only that, but Grant blames historians about ignoring the history, while being ignorant to the fact that historians would probably know a bit more about studying …show more content…

Of course, it is possible that the writer, Thomas More, had little to no recollection of the events of King Richard’s ruling and murders, and that he had a bit of a bias, but Grant has no evidence to justify completely throw out all of his claims. Young when Richard was in power, More also worked for the family that defeated Richard, the Tudors. However, More’s book, The History of King Richard III, should not have been completely thrown out as false by Grant. Although the information in More’s account could be fabricated in order to give Richard a bad name, Grant cannot know that for sure. Unable to go and interview the men himself, he decides to take it upon himself to decide the …show more content…

He likes the kinder portrait painted of Richard in this story than the one given to him by historical document. Not only is this book fictional in the story, but it was completely made up by Josephine Tey to give Grant more feelings of sympathy for Richard. Although Grant knows that The Rose of Raby is a work of fiction, he finds the reading “much more illuminating” than actual history books. (Tey 59). To his credit, he does not draw upon occurrences from the book as fact, and knows that the story is just a work of historical fiction. However, he lets the work influence his beliefs and encourage him to keep believing in Richard’s innocence. Feelings guide his presumption about Richard’s innocence in several other places throughout the case, rather than fact. He starts looking into Richard’s history in the first place because he decides that Richard does not look like someone who would commit cold-blooded murder in one portrait that he sees of

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