Who said the winter of my discontent

He says that as he "cannot prove a lover" he is "determined to be a villain". Whether Shakespeare believed the propaganda against Richard or whether he was happy to use it for dramatic effect isn't clear. It is clear that brooding malevolence that Shakespeare has Richard personify mirrors the playwright's view of the state of the English nation during the Wars of the Roses.

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barded steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

I thought by this time in history we would have solved problems like world hunger and war. Tyrion: I would be satisfied if things were at least improving. I feel like things are getting worse. Tyrion: Every night on the news, I see more evidence of the horribleness of people. People everywhere are dying from lack of food and clean water. There are so many wars going on. Now is the winter of our discontent. They use this quote to describe why the set makers designed the set the way they did.

Error rating book. Refresh and try again. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. I shall forget it. It may not come around again. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure.

Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight.