A mixed or limited monarchy is a contradiction in terms.
(4) Non-resistance and passive obedience are enjoined by God. Under any circumstances resistance to a king is a sin, and ensures damnation" (Walters). In William Shakespeare's Richard II, Richard took these divine rights very seriously. Richard's belief that he is God's appointed king to the thrown leads him to forget himself as a normal person and finally causes his fall from the thrown.
Richard Continuously throughout the play through his language makes connections that show his belief that he is God's appointed. In the play Act III,ii Richard states one of the most important phrases of the play, "Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm from an anointed king". These are some of the first lines that Richard says in which he compares himself to Christ, "He knows that he is king by divine right, God's vicegerent, "His deputy anointed in his sight"(I,ii,38)""(Cubeta 7).
Richard stresses his reliance on divine rights especially in act III,ii,83, when after he finds out that his army has gone to join Bullingbrook after hearing that Richard is dead he says, " I had forgot myself, am I not king? Awake, thou coward majesty! Thou sleepest. Is not the king's name twenty thousand names?" then Richard emphasizes it by telling the men to "Arm, arm, my name". This is important because Richard reminds himself and others, in a certain aspect, that he is the king.
There are other biblical references within the play that Richard makes that compare him to Christ. The first being the mention of the biblical characters Cain and Abel. Richard in I,I, 104-106 is talking about Gloucester whose, "blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries, even from the tongue less caverns of the earth, to me for justice and rough chastisement". This relates to the biblical story because, "Richard at first is Cain. He is responsible for the death of Gloucester, but he exiles Bolingbroke and Mowbray instead of paying the penalty himself.
