Hotspur And Falstaff's Henry The IV

Ancient stories and legends of history help people in their stories by accomplishing one main goal as a literary story. Even think of the short nursery rhymes that you had as a child, didn’t they teach you something in the end. Morals and a different set of values arises in every story to give the growing minds and general population a reason to read. The tale of Henry the IV is no different as people read about the daily lives of certain characters. Assessing for a moment are the characters in the tale known as Hotspur and Falstaff, throughout the story they will mention the idea of honour and what is means to them. Readers will quickly see that while they are talking about the same ideology, the two men see the moral in vastly different

Hotspur has many language pieces that support his opinion about honour and how it is an opportunity relating it back to a lion and a hare. “If he fall in, good night-or sink or swim. Send danger from the east unto the west, So honour cross it from the north to south, And let them grapple. O the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare.” This form of speech personifies his quest to gain honour in the form of the hunt with himself being the lion. With Falstaff there are figures of speech, one in particular “He that died a Wednesday.” give reasoning to believe that he is much more composed and sees himself in a higher light and life. His quote referring to the Christian belief system of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit shows his understanding of the universe, He believes that honour is important, but in the system of the universe it is one of the last things that humans should worry about or allow them to obsess over. In discussing the figurative language Hotspur shows who is in in terms of actions with his language, while Falstaff is more inclined to show his morals and beliefs beyond the physical

Honour is right at the time in his history where two people like this are often to meet; it is seen as highly valued and dough after, but not as the most valued and important thing in a man's lifetime. To assess Shakespeare’s use of word choice he not only elevates the poem with words, but he still make the tale understandable to the general population. He takes sophisticated words and phrases and gives them to characters to put that same elevated yet understandable effect on the specific character, as was seen in Hotspur and Falstaff. The figurative language proved to push the prior point even further with the stories general theme being shared, while the characters personal qualities remain there.,Whether it’s a general reference or something for the main population it still had that fine detail that is only seen in some of the world's high level