King Henry Iv Part 1 Analysis

Have you ever thought why composers choose to represent and construct a text in a certain way? What is their purpose? What are they trying to achieve? William Shakespeare is a famous composer who is famous for composing plays, whereby his representations talk about issues of his time such as politics. Why did he do this? Well, the representations of people and politics is an ongoing and dynamic process whereby a composer’s morals and social agenda’s are transmitted to us the responders in a way that is convincing and persuasive as such, the our world visions are influenced by these beliefs. This is reflected by William Shakespeare and his historical play King Henry IV, Part 1 and the RSC production of this play which both examines the instability of the

His selfish nature transfers to his political perspective while he plays King, as Falstaff cannot escape his mindset of manipulation of those better off than him for self profit. He indirectly lavishes self-praise on himself under the persona of the King. Falstaff’s uses a metaphorical analogy in his dialogue “I see virtue in his looks, if the tree may be known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then peremptorily I speak it: there is virtue in that Falstaff, keep him with, the rest banish” in order to try convince Harry of his prosperity, expressing that he has no motives which can be seen by his demeanour, while also highlighting his worth over his other friends in order to move up a social class. We further see Falstaff’s manipulative ways can also be seen in the RSC production, the actor that plays Falstaff adds charisma, humour and friendly mockery of Harry to play with Harry’s emotions as he tries to cement his friendship with him for when he rises up to power. The use of these features further reveal to us Falstaff’s manipulative abilities and nature. Falstaff’s actions in this scene exemplifies to us Falstaff’s lack of morality as he tries to exploit