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Shakespeare - How do the Falstaff scenes relate to the main plot?
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Falstaff is a fat witty knight who is the main source of comedy in play. He is one of the most wonderful and popular characters ever created by Shakespeare. Falstaff is not so much a person to be judged by realistic standards. Part comic fool and part vice figure from the morality plays, his role embodies a vast number of qualities that it is impossible to characterise him in simple terms. Here are four points that sum his character: * Falstaff is the play's fool, yet he shows great virtue with his language. He turns words inside out, deliberately mistakes what people have said to him. He boasts and lies without shame ' a hundred upon poor four of us' is how he describes the counter robbery at Gads Hill. He moralises on the serious themes of the play, honour being a 'mere scutcheon'. * Falstaff is Hal's best friend and...
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