King Henry IV Flashcards
KH: Disorder in Familial Relos
‘Shall daub her lips with her own children’s blood.’
Hal & Hotspur Rivalry Begins
KH: ‘Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant.”/”See riot and dishonour stain the brow of My Young Harry.”
HAL: Disorder disguises order
“I imitate the sun who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world” “Like Bright metal on sullen ground”
FLS: Disorder is honourable
“Let us be Diana’s foresters… minions of the moon”
KH: Qualities of a bad leader
“Smooth as oil, soft as young down”
HSP: Honour comes in challenge
“Oh the blood more stirs to rouse a lion than to start a hare!”
HSP: KH’s Robbery
“To put down Richard, sweet lovely rose, and plant this thorn, this canker Bullingbrook.”
HSP: Honour is a conquest
“Pluck up drowned honour by the locks…”
FLS: Honour is lost in KH’s world
“A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another.”
HSP: Order arises from disorder
“From this nettle danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
HSP: Honour is dangerous
“We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.”
FLS: Royalty is an act
“This chair shall be my state, this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown”
FLS: On Hal’s character
“The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows.”
FLS: Disorder is necessary
“Banish… banish… banish plump Jack and banish all the world.”
HAL: Transformation
“I do, I will.”
HSP: Belittling education
“Poetry, tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.”
HAL: Generosity
“I shall hereafter… be more myself.”
KH: Ideal King vs Non Ideal King
“My presence was like a robe pontifical” vs “He was but as the cuckoo is in June.”
KH: Disappointment and humiliating Hal
“To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns.”
HAL: Self confidence and determination
“Percy is but my factor… to engross up glorious deeds upon my behalf.”
Hal vs Hotspur: Divine Imagery
KH compares HSP to Mars in swaddling clothes, VER compares HAL to a feathered Mercury, rising from the ground
FLS: Innocent Robbery
“I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.”
HSP: Honour is faithful
“Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong.”
KH: Easy transfer between Order and Disorder
“… made us doff of our easy robes of peace to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel…”
KH: Misfortune is natural, WOR: Good fortune is natural
“An exhal’d meteor, prodigy of fear.”/”A flood of greatness fell on you.”
KH: Disorder can look like order
“To face a garment of rebellion with some fine colour.”
FLS: The emptiness of honour
“What is honour? What is in that word honour? … honour is a mere scrutcheon.”
WOR: Rebels are never trusted again
“Treason is but trusted like the fox, who… locked up will have a wild trick of its ancestor.”
HSP: The crown is an act
“The king hath many men marching in his coats.”
VER: The versatility of Hal
“… double spirit of teaching and of learning instantly.”
