Henry V Key quotations Flashcards
How is Henry V presented in Act 1?
Honourable
Wild as a youth - not initially promising (uncouth)
His father’s death transformed his attributes
fickle - can be easily manipulated
immature and easily aggravated (tennis balls)
What different types of rhetoric are there?
Ethos - An appeal made on status and authority
Logos - An appeal made on logic or reason with facts
Pathos - An appeal made on emotion
What is the role of the Chorus?
To fill in the gaps between key events
Provide facts and move the story along
Quotes from Canterbury stating why him and Ely need Henry V to go to war and encouraging him
Canterbury - ‘If it pass against us// We lose the better half of our possession.’
Canterbury - ‘He seems indifferent’
Canterbury - ‘O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege// With blood and sword and fire to win your right!’
Canterbury quotes about Henry’s youth?
Canterbury - ‘The courses of his youth promised it not’
‘his wildness, mortified in him’
‘Mort’ - died in French therefore the old him died as the new strong king was born - link to France
Quote for Henry V being Christian
‘We are no tyrant, but a Christian King’
Quotes from Henry to declare war on France
‘We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us.’
‘When we have matched our rackets to these balls,// We will in France, by God’s grace, play a set’ - ironic
‘That all courts of France will be disturbed’ opposite to ‘When we have matched our racket to these balls,’
‘Shall stand sore chargèd for the wasteful vengeance//
That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows’
‘My rightful hand of in a well-hallowed cause.’
How is Henry V portrayed as fickle?
‘We consider// It was excess of wine that set him on,// And on his more advice we pardon him’
‘You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy’
‘Another fall of man.’ - like Adam and Eve disobeying God therefore Henry see’s himself like God.
At first kind but then harsh - two personalities.
‘None of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language’ Act 3 Scene 6 after Harfleur monologue
How is Henry shown to be of a higher class than his former drinking friends?
Iambic pentameter compared to free verse
Rhyming couplet - distinctive dénouement
Rhetoric so that he is a strong, persuasive leader
How is Henry persuasive at Harfleur - Act 3 Scene 1?
‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more’
Repetition to encourage and motivate
Pathos - ‘dear friends’ - personal
‘Whose blood is set from fathers of war-proof!’
Logos - English better than the French
Ethos - you are British so i trust you
‘Cry,”God for Harry! England and Saint George!”
Rule of three and emotive language - pathos
How is Henry intimidating to Harfleur after England’s victory Act 3 Scene 3?
‘I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur// Till in her ashes she lie buried.’ - passionate and determined
‘With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass//
Your fresh fair virgins, and your flowering infants.’
Rule of three and negative ethos
‘Shrill-shrieking daughters’ - sibilance
How is the French King made to sound less convincing than Henry V?
‘Bar Harry England that sweeps through our land//
With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur’
Encouragement through negative ethos
King says ‘Bring him our prisoner’- King isn’t fighting
King seems scared or lazy
No rhyming couplet and long list of names losses effect to create a boring, dry monologue
Only talks to other loyalty which he surrounds himself
How is Henry portrayed as duplicitous?
‘We shall your tawny ground with your red blood//
Discolour: and so, Montjoy, fare you well.’
‘We are in God’s hand, brother, not in theirs’
How is the Dauphin portrayed as arrogant?
‘He trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it’
‘My way shall be paved with English faces.’
Dauphin symbolises the French - overconfident, arrogant
How does the chorus for Act 4 portray Henry V?
‘And calls them brothers, friends and countrymen.’
Benevolent leader - pathos - rule of three
‘Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks.’
English underdogs - propaganda
