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How would an audience react to "Henry" at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

Date Submitted: 11/24/2004 14:12:38
Length: 2 pages (595 words)
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In the history play, Henry V by William Shakespeare, Henry is portrayed as being a good orator and he has all of the qualities of a good king. He is patriotic, cunning, diplomatic and strategic in war. This helps him in inspiring his troops and comeback from the insults said by the Dauphin. In the play there are many references to Henry's youth and it is shown how much he has matured since then. Henry …

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…to how he has matured since he became king. "How he comes o'er us with our wilder days not measuring what use we made of them." Henry is saying to the Dauphin that he is not the gambling child that the Dauphin thinks him to be and that he has learnt how to be a good king and the Dauphin should be careful who he insults because he doesn't know how much Henry has changed.

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