King Henry IV

Question 1

KH: Disorder in Familial Relos

Answer 1

‘Shall daub her lips with her own children’s blood.’

Question 2

Hal & Hotspur Rivalry Begins

Answer 2

KH: ‘Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant.”/”See riot and dishonour stain the brow of My Young Harry.”

Question 3

HAL: Disorder disguises order

Answer 3

“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”

Question 4

FLS: Disorder is honourable

Answer 4

“Let us be Diana’s foresters… minions of the moon”

Question 5

KH: Qualities of a bad leader

Answer 5

“Smooth as oil, soft as young down”

Question 6

HSP: Honour comes in challenge

Answer 6

“Oh the blood more stirs to rouse a lion than to start a hare!”

Question 7

HSP: KH’s Robbery

Answer 7

“To put down Richard, sweet lovely rose, and plant this thorn, this canker Bullingbrook.”

Question 8

HSP: Honour is a conquest

Answer 8

“Pluck up drowned honour by the locks…”

Question 9

FLS: Honour is lost in KH’s world

Answer 9

“A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another.”

Question 10

HSP: Order arises from disorder

Answer 10

“From this nettle danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

Question 11

HSP: Honour is dangerous

Answer 11

“We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.”

Question 12

FLS: Royalty is an act

Answer 12

“This chair shall be my state, this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown”

Question 13

FLS: On Hal’s character

Answer 13

“The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows.”

Question 14

FLS: Disorder is necessary

Answer 14

“Banish… banish… banish plump Jack and banish all the world.”

Question 15

HAL: Transformation

Answer 15

“I do, I will.”

Question 16

HSP: Belittling education

Answer 16

“Poetry, tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.”

Question 17

HAL: Generosity

Answer 17

“I shall hereafter… be more myself.”

Question 18

KH: Ideal King vs Non Ideal King

Answer 18

“My presence was like a robe pontifical” vs “He was but as the cuckoo is in June.”

Question 19

KH: Disappointment and humiliating Hal

Answer 19

“To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns.”

Question 20

HAL: Self confidence and determination

Answer 20

“Percy is but my factor… to engross up glorious deeds upon my behalf.”

Question 21

Hal vs Hotspur: Divine Imagery

Answer 21

KH compares HSP to Mars in swaddling clothes, VER compares HAL to a feathered Mercury, rising from the ground

Question 22

FLS: Innocent Robbery

Answer 22

“I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.”

Question 23

HSP: Honour is faithful

Answer 23

“Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong.”

Question 24

KH: Easy transfer between Order and Disorder

Answer 24

“… made us doff of our easy robes of peace to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel…”

Question 25

KH: Misfortune is natural, WOR: Good fortune is natural

Answer 25

“An exhal’d meteor, prodigy of fear.”/”A flood of greatness fell on you.”

Question 26

KH: Disorder can look like order

Answer 26

“To face a garment of rebellion with some fine colour.”

Question 27

FLS: The emptiness of honour

Answer 27

“What is honour? What is in that word honour? … honour is a mere scrutcheon.”

Question 28

WOR: Rebels are never trusted again

Answer 28

“Treason is but trusted like the fox, who… locked up will have a wild trick of its ancestor.”

Question 29

HSP: The crown is an act

Answer 29

“The king hath many men marching in his coats.”

Question 30

VER: The versatility of Hal

Answer 30

“… double spirit of teaching and of learning instantly.”