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GARDENER:“ They are; and Bolingbroke/Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it/That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land/As we this garden! We at time of year/Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit-trees,/Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,/With too much riches it confound itself:/Had he done so to great and growing men,/They might have lived to bear and he to taste/Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches/We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:/Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,/Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.“ Richard II is a play written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century. It is the first part of teatrology which talks about rise of the English Royal House of Lancaster. The play …show more content…

Richard became a king when he was very young and he does not know how to behave. He is wasting money on unnecessary things, he is not connected with his country and its people. He does not chose wisely counselors. The main problem appears when he starts to rent out parcels of his land to some noblemen in order to raise funds for one of his wars in Ireland, he seizes the goods of his uncle etc. His common people decide that he has gone too far. The theme of the play is his cousin’s Henry Bollingbroke attempts and at the end, success to execute Richard …show more content…

Their talk begins when the Gardener ask the Servant to tie the apricot tree to the wall.” Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,/Which, like unruly children, make their sire” I think this apricot can be understood like the country which has been ruined by some arrogant ruler, in this case Richard, who does not care about his ancestors who were trying really hard to stabilize the country. The servant asks him why does he need to do this when he is not fault for what happend to the apricot.” Why should we in the compass of a pale/Keep law and form and due proportion,/Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,/When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,/Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up. “ The servant does not know why do they have to all that stuff if they are not only ones responsible for that. Probably the same thoughts had the King, too. He did not want to arrange the country when their neighbours were fighting in the war and were also messed up like Richard’s country, although he was helping them. Further in the conversation they talk about Bollingsbroke’s seizing the Richard and banishing him. They are comparing the reign of the king with their garden, they wish that king had organized his country like they did their garden. Their trees are wounded but

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