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"Falstaff is a dreadful character in every way yet the audience cannot help but like him and laugh along with him."
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"Falstaff is a dreadful character in every way yet the audience cannot help but like him and laugh along with him." Bearing in mind the above quotation, analyse the behaviour and character of Falstaff and then suggest ways in which he entertains the audience and engages their sympathies. We see Falstaff, almost in the first moment of our acquaintance with him, involved in circumstances of criminal activities. Prince Hal in Act one, Scene two claims that Falstaff had robbed a purse of gold, "got with swearing 'Lay by'..." Of which, Falstaff admits that this was true. Falstaff further incriminates himself in an incident when Hal sends him into hiding, after the Sheriff and his men raided the tavern to arrest Falstaff for his involvement in the robbery of travellers going to Canterbury. Another fault with Falstaff is his cowardice, we hear him familiarly called a coward by his most intimate companions,...
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