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• ‘worcester, get thee gone; for i do see danger and disobedience in thine eye’ - henry, 1.3


  henry mistrusts worcester + asserts royal authority

  highlights growing tension + suppressio of dissent within political elite
• ’i will lift the down-trod mortimer as high in the air as this unthankful king’- hotspur, 1.3


  hotspur challenges henry’s betrayal of mortimer by refusing to ransom him from glendower

  rebellion framed as righteous resistance against corrupt leadership, question rebellions morality due to personal motivations
• ’this is no world to play with mammets and to tilt with lips… must have bloody noses and cracked crowns’- hotspur, 2.3


  mocks emotional or domestic concerns, asserting violent masculinity

  critiques glorification of war + marginalisation of female voices
• ’why thou knowest i am valiant as hercules…‘- falstaff, 2.4


  satirises heroism + mocks noble ideals

  undermines romanticised images of valor + chivalry
• ’banish plump jack, and banish all the world’- falstaff

  ‘i do, i will’- hal, 2.4


  foreshadows hal’s future rejection of falstaff

  reveals harsh cost of leadership + personal sacrifice demanded by political image
• ’i can call spirits from the vasty deep’- glendower

  ‘but will they come‘- hotspur


  mocking glendower’s mystical pride

  ridicules empty rhetoric + posturing in political rebellion

  shows hotspur’s lack of belief in divine power etc, showing his disregard for ideas like divine right of kings + henry as god’s chosen king after being anointed
• ’you must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault’- worcester, 3.1


  worcester warns hotspur about arrogance + recklessness

  reflects internal criticism + fragility of rebel alliances
• ’why, harry, do i tell thee of my foes which art my nearest and dearest enemy’- henry, 3.2


  king expresses profound mistrust in hal, showing lack of understanding of his true character

  exposes fractures within dynastic power, highlighting instability
• ’rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost’- falstaff, 3.3


  mocks corruption at heart of state

  satirises blending of criminality + politics

  showcases difference between himself + new reformed hal, distance between them growing as hal reaches honour + chivalry of prince of wales
• ’glittering in golden coats…’- vernon, 4.1


  vernon describes hal’s transformation into a noble warrior

  highlights power of image + performance in leadership
• ’thou art the king of honour’- douglas, 4.1


  idolises hotspur, embodying absolute honour

  suggests idea of honour is flawed as it relies heavily on war + destruction of foes
• ‘if we without his help can make a head to push against a kingdom, with his help we shall o’erturn it topsy turvy’- hotspur, 4.1


  overestimates rebel strength, attempting to remain positive in obvious dissolution of rebel forces

  reflects dangerous overconfidence + lack of strategic unity in protest movements
• ’food for powder‘- falstaff, 4.2


  dehumanises soldiers as expendable

  critique of class exploitation + use of poor as cannon fodder in noble wars
• ‘broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong’- hotspur, 4.3


  lists grievances against henry

  rebuke of tyrannical rule + broken trust between king + nobles

  selfish reasoning behind rebellion
• ’will you again unknit this curlish knot of all-abhorred war and move in that obedient orb again’- henry, 5.1


  appeals to rebels to restore peace

  invokes divine order to suppress rebellion, reflecting authority’s framing of protest as disorder
• ’to save blood on either side, try fortune with him in single fight’- hal, 5.1


  offering single combat w/ hotspur to limit bloodshed

  reflects strategic leadership + responsibility, contrasting w/ hotspur’s rashness
• ’what is in that word honour?… air’- falstaff, 5.1


  dismisses honour as meaningless

  subversive challenge to ideology that glorifies death for reputation
• ’supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes’- worcester, 5.2


  speaks of constant surveillance + mistrust

  highlights paranoia within power structures + dangers of authoritarianism
• ’what, is it a time to jest?’- hal, 5.3


  to falstaff, rebukes his joke amid battle

  contrasts irresponsibility w/ rising political maturity + duty
• ’fare thee well, great heart. ill-weaved ambition’- hal, 5.4


  mourns hotspur, recognising his nobility in death

  reflects on cost of ambition + waste of rebellion
• ’rebellion in this land shall lose his sway’- henry, 5.5


  reasserts control + plans to suppress remaining rebellion

  shows how power responds to protest with further militarisation + suppression