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Shakespeare's "Henry IV": Summary - Papers Online

Shakespeare's "Henry IV": Summary

In the play “Henry the fourth” written by William Shakespeare is
triumphant and denial. There is a prince named Hal that does not act like
a prince that you think a prince would and fat man named Falstaff that is
his friend. In this play we see that the prince changes when his father
and his country need him from a hooligan of a prince to a prince that is
tough and noble. I will show in steps how prince Hal turns from “Pal Hal”
to “Sweet hope”.
In the starting of the play we see that the prince is a “playboy”.
He does not act princely. He is always drinking and having fun with his
friends. At this point Hal does not really care that he is going to be the
next ruler of his country ...

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other and call each other names and that wont bother them.
For instance when the prince started calling Falstaf, “This bed-presser,
this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh”. Then Falstaf came back
by saying, “Sblood, you starveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat's- tongue,
you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish,--O for breath to utter what is like
thee!-you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck!”
(Act 2,2,245-251). All this just slipped of there backs like it didn't
even happen. Hal likes having fun. An example of this was when Hal and
Poins stole money from Falstaf and friends after they robbed a couple of
travelers. Hal and Poins did this because they wanted to see what Falstaf
and company would say when they came back to the bar. They wanted to see
the kind of stories that they would make up. And that did happen. Falstaf
made a whole range of stories always changing. One story was that a whole
army attacked them and tried to fight them off ...

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Added: 1/10/2006 05:36:49 AM
Category: Arts
Type: Premium Paper
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