Out of all evil comes good. Should Henry V be considered a good king? Henry the V is a good leader, and king, and this is shown through his courage, loyalty, and unity. Henry went from an insecure child to an full grown male fit to be the king he was always meant to become. “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness, and humility, but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage, then lend the eye a terrible aspect, let it pry through the portage of the head like the brass cannon, let the brow o’erwhelm …show more content…
it as fearfully as doth a galled rock O’erhang and jutty his confound base swilled with the wild wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, hold hard the breath, and bend upon every spirit to his full height. On, on, you noblest english, whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof, Fathers that, like so many alexanders, have in these parts from morn till even fought, and sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Dishonor not your mother's. Now attest that those whom you called fathers did beget you. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, and teach them how to war. And you good yeomen whose limbs were made in england, show us here the mettle of your pasture. Let us swear that you are worth your breeding, which i doubt not, For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble luster in your eyes i see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game's afoot. Follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!” Henry the fifth shows unity through amazing speeches to bring together using our 9th core value “Building a culture of greatness.” He brings his people together, and that's how they win most fights. He gives them hope which is what they need. Courage, Henry the V shows courage through many different ways.
“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.” (act 4 scene 5 page 2) He says that as he is not afraid to die for his country of England. Henry’s courage Helps him, and his troops reach wins. This quote shows our 7th core value “Modeling what we teach” As through saying that he will fight for England. Which influences his soldiers to fight hard without fear. ““I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?” He shows courage through this as he knows the blood will be on his hands so he uses it to win it for them. He knows its on his hands, but it helps him come back and win the fights for …show more content…
England. Furthermore we come into unity.
Henry the V shows loyalty in many different ways. “This story shall the good man teach his son, and crispin crispian shall ne’er go by from this day till’ the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother be he ne’er so vile. This day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in england now abed shall think themselves accursed that they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks that fought with us upon saint crispins day.” This shows unity as Henry the V uses this amazing speech to bring his troops together in unity, and that helped them walk into the battle proud, and win the battle down 5/1 odds, but through unity they were able to win the battle of Agincourt. “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness, and humility, but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage, then lend the eye a terrible aspect, let it pry through the portage of the head like the brass cannon, let the brow o’erwhelm it as fearfully as doth a galled rock O’erhang and jutty his confound base swilled with the wild wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide, hold hard the
breath, and bend upon every spirit to his full height. On, on, you noblest english, whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof, Fathers that, like so many alexanders, have in these parts from morn till even fought, and sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Dishonor not your mother's. Now attest that those whom you called fathers did beget you. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, and teach them how to war. And you good yeomen whose limbs were made in england, show us here the mettle of your pasture. Let us swear that you are worth your breeding, which i doubt not, For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble luster in your eyes i see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game's afoot. Follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!” This speech brings them all together to win yet another battle. This brought them all together, and it gave them courage, and strength. This shows our 7th core value Modeling what we teach like at john adams academy. Next is Loyalty. Henry the V shows loyalty in ways like the battle of Agincourt. Where the odds that were stacked against him were 5 to 1 he stuck with his soldiers, and fought through which ended up being what let them win. Henry Uses loyalty through ways like knowing his soldiers on a personal level. This is also what our teachers do at john adams. This pertains to our 2nd core value public and private virtue, as he keeps good relationships, but also is trustable. ““Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.” He says dear friends meaning that he truly cares about his people which gives them morale. Some may say that Henry the V is a bad king because he killed the french prisoners, and that makes him bad. The reason he killed them though is because the french killed some boys guarding an armory even though they were unarmed. So Henry was just killing them as a way of payback to show the french that he is not vulnerable. Henry knew that those boys had no weapons so they could have just imprisoned them. They decided instead to kill them to see what Henry would do. So he killed the prisoners to show the french that he's not messing around, and to not kill unarmed people. In conclusion Henry the fifth is great king through his courage because of fighting while outnumbered 5/1. He showed unity by bringing his troops together by amazing speeches. Last, but not least loyalty for keeping up good relationships with all of his soldiers giving them better morale, and strength/will to fight. Henry shows all of this just like our teachers/staff, and message at John Adams academy.
I side with Loades on this as despite resentment from the nobles, after the Perkin Warbeck imposture there were no more serious uprisings which strongly support the success of Henry’s policies. Whilst most nobles would see his methods as unjust (especially the wide of use bonds and recognisances) Henry succeeded in increasing the crown’s standing at the expense of the nobility, securing his position whilst weakening the nobles. Through most of his policies Henry was successful in limiting the powers of nobility. Henry sought to restrict the noble’s power and yet at the same time needed them to keep order and represent him at local levels, therefore Henry sought not to destroy the nobles but to weaken them enough that they did not pose a threat, he needed a balance of control over the nobles and strong nobility.
Henry is worried about how he will do in this first battle. He isn't. sure if he will run or not, and he is scared that he might. He doesn't. want to look like a fool and run, but he is also scared of getting killed.
However, he didn't listen to the duke of york who desperately wanted a say. This could have been another reason for the outbreak of conflict because the people didn't think he always made the right decision and the duke of York didn't like not being listened to. Another problem was with patronage, as Henry was overgenerous, but only to some people, he would give lots of patronage to Somerset and Suffolk but none to York. This was even worse because he had borrowed from York and instead if paying him back, gave patronage to others. He gave away more and more money and land so that there wasn't much left for important times like war and to make people happy or come onto his side.
When the English were facing great defeat in the Battle of Agincourt, Henry tells him mean that it is up to God’s will. This is a great act of faith and trust in God and it emphasizes his noble Christian qualities. Also Henry displays mercy when he gave those who “Hath no stomach to fight” the option to leave. He did not force them to fight in the battle of Agincourt he trusted in God because all his men left him. This is the Kind of wisdom that we often see displayed by kings in the
...e colonial leaders, by stating he is ready to die for his cause. This would make the members of the house introspective and look into their hearts to see if they are ready to die for their cause. Henry excites fear by stating he is so passionately ready to sacrifice for his country. This play towards pathos, or appealing to the audience’s emotions, is an effective way of trying to convince the House to go to war against Britain. This pathos combined with the logic of Henry’s speech, makes for a convincing argument. Logically taking the house step by step from stating that because he has an outlook on their situation, he should express it to them, to stating his argument before the House, to saying that lacking freedom is worse then death, then taking it full circle pronouncing he would prefer to be “give[n] death” then to have his freedom taken away by the British.
Henry is somewhat naïve, he dreams of glory, but doesn't think much of the duty that follows. Rather than a sense of patriotism, it is clear to the reader that Henry goals seem a little different, he wants praise and adulation. "On the way to Washington, the regiment was fed and caressed for station after station until the youth beloved
For hundreds of years, those who have read Henry V, or have seen the play performed, have admired Henry V's skills and decisions as a leader. Some assert that Henry V should be glorified and seen as an "ideal Christian king". Rejecting that idea completely, I would like to argue that Henry V should not be seen as the "ideal Christian king", but rather as a classic example of a Machiavellian ruler. If looking at the play superficially, Henry V may seem to be a religious, moral, and merciful ruler; however it was Niccolo Machiavelli himself that stated in his book, The Prince, that a ruler must "appear all mercy, all faith, all honesty, all humanity, [and] all religion" in order to keep control over his subjects (70). In the second act of the play, Henry V very convincingly acts as if he has no clue as to what the conspirators are planning behind his back, only to seconds later reveal he knew about their treacherous plans all along. If he can act as though he knows nothing of the conspirators' plans, what is to say that he acting elsewhere in the play, and only appearing to be a certain way? By delving deeper into the characteristics and behaviors of Henry V, I hope to reveal him to be a true Machiavellian ruler, rather than an "ideal king".
In the first part of the novel, Henry is a youth that is very inexperienced. His motives were impure. He was a very selfish and self-serving character. He enters the war not for the basis of serving his country, but for the attainment of glory and prestige. Henry wants to be a hero. This represents the natural human characteristic of selfishness. Humans have a want and a need to satisfy themselves. This was Henry's main motive throughout the first part of the novel. On more than one occasion Henry is resolved to that natural selfishness of human beings. After Henry realizes that the attainment of glory and heroism has a price on it. That price is by wounds or worse yet, death. Henry then becomes self-serving in the fact that he wants to survive for himself, not the Union army. There is many a time when Henry wants to justify his natural fear of death. He is at a point where he is questioning deserting the battle; in order to justify this, he asks Jim, the tall soldier, if he would run. Jim declared that he'd thought about it. Surely, thought Henry, if his companion ran, it would be alright if he himself ran. During the battle, when Henry actually did take flight, he justified this selfish deed—selfish in the fact that it did not help his regiment hold the Rebs—by natural instinct. He proclaimed to himself that if a squirrel took flight when a rock was thrown at it, it was alright that he ran when his life was on the line.
Persuasive Techniques Used by Henry in Act Four Scene Three in Shakespeare's Henry V Henry's speech is well prepared; he uses various key features in a persuasive leader. Before Henry starts of he is able to turn weakness into strengths. He immediately identifies what is wrong with his soldiers, the larger French army. King Henry commences by giving his soldiers confident advice, he says 'if we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country's loss.' Essentially this means that the fewer who die the better for our country, because the less loss of lives.
Henry V is not a simple one as it has many aspects. By looking into
The character of King Henry begins his speech by sharing his own point of view on the oncoming battle. The king says, “…I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost”. He goes on to demonstrate parallel structure by repeating the previous sentence structure. King Henry says, “It yearns me not if men my garments wear; such outward things dwell not in my desires. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive”. He uses this parallel structure to share that he values honor and that this is why he is fighting. In fighting alongside him, King Henry’s troops would share this great honor.
Henry is determined throughout the story. One example of his determination is when he first enlists to join the Union army. He puts his mind to it, enlisting against his mother's wishes. Another example is when he is hit in the head by the stock of a gun from another soldier, who is trying to get away from Henry. Although he is hurt very badly, he is determined to make it out of the way of harm and back to his regiment's encampment. Later in the story,...
Frederick Henry grew up in America and in his early twenties, he decided to go to Europe and fight in the Italian army. Henry’s decision in the first place, showed courage and bravery. Fighting for another country over making a living in your own goes above and beyond what is remotely asked for. Even in my wildest dreams, I would probably not even think about fighting for my own country, let alone a foreign country. Times were tough, especially when the start of the winter came. With that winter came “permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end and only seven thousand died of it in the army.” (4) In the army, people die, and it is not the nicest place. Frederick Henry chose to enter this world and this portrays bravery.
in Act I Scene I and has all the qualities of being a great leader. He is able to manage people exceptionally well shown by his unification. of the army as a strong force. Shakespeare shows Henry's physical. Courage is never in doubt as he is a brave responsible soldier who does all that he can to protect his men.
Through high moral character Henry established credibility with the audience through creating a setting that aroused feelings in the people at the convention in order to convince them they had to fight for more than just peace. The goal Henry had when he spoke about war was to be honest with the crowd and point out that they needed to do something now or they would loose not just what he loved, but what they also loved. Henry said “If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending...and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight!”. In this quote the tactic of ethics is apparent in that Henry wanted to achieve a personal level of connection with the audience and establish his credibility. By relating losing the war it also meant the lose of their feelings of comfort and contentm...