1: Henry IV: AAppearance Vs. Reality

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Term Paper Title	1: Henry IV: AAppearance Vs. Reality
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1:  Henry IV: AAppearance vs.  Reality"

Shakespeare’s play Henry IV begins with a king (King Henry) beginning a pilgrimage after killing King Richard II.  Henry  believes that by gaining the throne of England he has done an honourable deed, yet he admits that the fighting and bloodshed could continue, A. . .   ill sheathed knife . . . @ (I.1.17).  He, also, admits  that his own son, Prince Hal,  is not honourable enough to occupy the throne, Asee riot and dishonour stain the brow of my young Harry"  (I.1.17).
Shakespeare continues the topos of honour and redemption into Act three, scene two, where he uses elements such as anaphora, topos, imagery and rhetoric in a meeting between King Henry and Prince Hal that is both  crucial and  climatic to the overall structure of the theme of honour.
At the beginning of Act III  sc. ii,  Shakespeare clears all other characters from the stage to allow King Henry=s first meeting, face to face with Prince Hal, to be focused and intense.  King Henry is the first to speak and sets a sombre tone as he begins to unmask himself to his son A. . .  some displeasing service I have done @  (3.2.5).   As well Shakespeare allows King Henry to bring Prince Hal=s mask to attention by using anaphora:
Could such inordinate and low desires,
Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such
mean attempt, such barren pleasures,
rude society as there art matched withal . . . (3.2.12-15).

The word such is used to emphasise his [Henry]  displeasure of Hal=s friends and the image they  portray around him causing Hal in the eyes of Henry to lose his princely image.
Shakespeare, then allows Prince Hal to defend himself to his father’s interpretations of his (Hal) character.  Again, there is a contrast between what King Henry perceives and what is reality.  The king is obviously distressed over Hal=s choice of friends  and how they affect this  ‘Princely image’.   Hal  on the other hand asks for Apardon on my true submission @ (3.2.27), claiming that such people (friends) tell stories that may not always be true Aaft the ear of greatness must hear @ (3.2.24).
It seems that King Henry still has some reservations about Prince Hal=s ‘appearance’ and how that effects his (Hal=s) place on the throne; which may be some what ironic coming from a king that truly bases popularity, Aopinion that did help me to the crown @ (3.2.42), on public opinion though a rebellion is organising  around him.
During the King=s speech to Hal, Shakespeare em...

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