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With close reference to Shakespeare’s language discuss how the characters of the Prince of Wales and Hotspur are portrayed in Henry IV Part 1
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With close reference to Shakespeare's language discuss how the characters of the Prince of Wales and Hotspur are portrayed in Henry IV Part 1. In Henry IV, Part 1; Shakespeare contrasts the two characters, Prince Henry and Hotspur. The characters are complete opposites but have a common goal. They both want to be respected. Hotspur signals his intentions from the start but it is only as you get further on in the play that you realise that Hal has the same ambitions. This play chronicles the rise and fall of Hotspur and Hal's rise from being the innocuous prince to a heroic heir in one play. In Act One, Scene One, the king says: "Yea, there thou mak'st me sin in envy, that my Northumberland should be a father to so blest a son." Since this is said in the very first scene of the play we are immediately...
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