'Richard is a truly evil character with no justification for his actions'. To what extent do you agree with this assessment of Richard's character in Shakespeare's Richard III?

Richard is certainly an evil character, a fact made clear throughout the play. The extent of his evil is shown in events including the death of Clarence and his treatment of Anne,. This considered, I still don't believe that he is truly evil. He has justification for his actions, and he later is haunted by his actions as he questions whether he has made the right decisions. I believe that Richard is evil, but not …showed first 75 words of 948 total…

…showed last 75 words of 948 total…he still manages to maintain justification for his actions, based on a hatred of his own deformity, and a powerful desire to become King of England. In the end, he does acknowledge the horrors of what he did, when forced to confront them. This all leads me to believe that while Richard is by all means an evil character, he is not truly evil, and he also did have his own justifications for his actions.