Clarence's Loss Of Innocence

The passage excerpted from William Shakespeare’s King Richard III Act 1 Scene 4, Clarence had just woken from an odious nightmare, dazed and frightened, to describe his nightmare with the keeper. In his nightmare, he escaped the Tower with his brother Richard to Burgundy, but Clarence was pushed by his brother and fell into the sea. He drowns to the bottom of the sea, first suffering the physical pain on his body, then noticed the flamboyance wealth on the seafloor with dead man’s skeleton. Clarence realized the absurdness of human vanity under the layer of death and condemned by his conscience of his past greediness and materialism. The metaphorical dream was full of magnanimous amount of deep symbols to show the natural of human vanity motivated by greed and materialism.
Clarence’s dream commenced with he had fled from the London Tower, then he recalled the war of roses with Richard on the deck of
He used all the fancy adjectives to describe the value of glorious treasures, the ironic part is that all those unvalued treasures, were “All scattered in the bottom of the sea”. These three lines are highly ironic as the comparison between the valuable of the jewels and the places that they were ---- the bottom of the sea, no one will discover them, no one will ever own them. Human does need material for survival, but the over strong pursuit of material desire will make one becomes hysterical, and ultimately lost the spirit of sustenance and even life. In these lines, the concept of materialism was criticized and mocked. The materialism is the gospel of mammon, the human natural towards materialism was ever continuing. However, they are the wealth that the people were once greedy for, those materialists treated the wealth more important than their spiritual, and symbolize the useless of