Is Henry V the "star of england" or a flawed human being. Analysis of a modern day and Shakespearean audience's reaction to the way Henry V is portrayed.
Title: Is Henry V the "star of england" or a flawed human being. Analysis of a modern day and Shakespearean audience's reaction to the way Henry V is portrayed.
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1509 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Is Henry V the "star of england" or a flawed human being. Analysis of a modern day and Shakespearean audience's reaction to the way Henry V is portrayed.
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1509 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Henry is first referred to as "warlike" in the first chorus and this image of him
continues throughout the play. Later, Henry advises the Archbishop to be
careful, "Awakening our sleeping sword of war", which shows that he can be
"warlike " when roused but is also peaceful. When Henry sends a message to
the Dauphin, he tells him "we will in France, by God's grace play a set, shall
strike his father's crown into the …showed first 75 words of 1509 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1509 total…idea is that the Elizabethans would have believed in the
divine rights of King ship, and so it was difficult for Shakespeare to explore the
idea that monarchs are only human beings. Yet he has done so quite
successfully, by giving a 21st century audience clues to and subtleties within
Henry's character which we see as evidence for Henry being the idealised King
that the Elizabethans expected, but also the imperfect human that he was.