The Mystery Of Marie Roget Analysis

In a winks article called “The Mystery of Marie Roget, and Other Diversions”, It discusses how history is constantly changing throughout time with new discoveries of evidence. The biography on a persons life is never fully finished. Many people thought one specific way about Richard III; he was a murderer of his brothers and nephews, he was a horrific looking person and all that he wanted was the throne. However, many years later in 1951, new information came from a story by Josephine Tey. She completely contradicts what most history books were saying about Richard III. History can be very complicated. We must look at all the evidence and decide for ourselves what is correct. We can not simply choose someone else's argument and go with that because in reality, almost anyone could be right. Is it

In some research I did from an article called “Sir Thomas More” from the Encyclopedia Britannica, I found that Thomas More was educated in the house of John Morton archbishop of Canterbury and also chancellor of England. John Morton predicted that Thomas More would be a very intelligent person and sent him to Oxford University to study. Thomas More looked up to John Morton and learned much of what he knew from John. This is important when determining what we know about Richard III because John Morton was a colleague of Henry VII, who Josephine Tey accuses of being the actual murderer of Richard III’s nephews, she was also the one who set up Richard to be accused of this. The source where we attain most of the information for the “dark” side of Richard is from the play by Shakespeare called Richard III. The problem with this is that Shakespeare learned most of what he knew about Richard from Thomas More. Thomas More learned what he knew from John Morton. John must have had a very biased view point of what actually happened back in the War of the Roses due to the fact that he supported Henry