This was clearly indicated at the beginning of the play when he said that he had hatched fiendish plots through drunken prophecies and dreams to set his brother George and the king in deadly hate against each other (1.1.32-35) to initiate a family feud, which would subsequently prevent George of Clarence from being a potential successor to the throne. ... His dream was coming true (Shakespeare & Crowther 280). ...

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