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Do you think Shakespeare presents the French sympathetically in the play?
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Do you think Shakespeare presents the French sympathetically in the play? Shakespeare presented the French unsympathetically in the play, through the use of negative imagery, language, and the attitudes of French towards English. The loss in battles was caused by the disunity, the lack of preparations for wars, the over-confidence of the French, and the mocking of tennis ball. Before the Battle of Harfleur, the French defences were asked by the French King to reinforce against the attack from English. The French King, a character with apparent high status as he was a king, concerned about the invasion of English, ordering his son Dauphin and dukes to choose 'men of courage and with means defendant' to fight against the English, preparing themselves ready for the strong attack of 'the English with full power'. As 'the English are on fire' and 'for England his approaches makes as fierce', metaphorically, the French 'waters the...
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