How does Shakespeare use language to entertain and motivate in Act 3, scene 1 and the rest of the play? Discuss with reference to the dramatic realisation of the play in Shakespeare's time and in the two twentieth century film versions.

How does Shakespeare use language to entertain and motivate in Act 3, scene 1 and the rest of the play? Discuss with reference to the dramatic realisation of the play in Shakespeare's time and in the two twentieth century film versions. Shakespeare uses language to entertain and motivate the audience in many ways. Shakespeare uses his language in Henry V to entertain and motivate the audience to create a mood in keeping with the political and social need of his day. In the play "Henry V" there is particular importance attached to the historical context at the time it was written. In the time of Shakespeare, the people thought the monarchy was 'approved by god', but things were about to change. The god given right to be the king or queen was being seriously challenged and people were questioning god's choice of monarchy. People's faith was down as the pope had been opposed by Henry VIII. He had set up his own church against the pope. Again, according to the people, if anyone opposed the pope, then they would be punished badly but nothing happened to Henry VIII. People were questioning the pope and god. When the play was written England was a powerful country and had a big empire. The people of England were used to being at the top. At this time, in Ireland, the Earl of Tyrone had led a rebellion against the English forces in Ireland. Queen

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Henry V - Act 1 Scene 2 - Act 4 Scene 3 - Compared

Act 1 Scene 2 - Act 4 Scene 3 - Compared In both scenes, Henry has different purpose, audience and structure. There are many comparisons between the lectures. Henry has two different situations in both speeches. The aspect of Act 1 Scene 2 is to avenge the Dauphin of his mockery, but the Act 4 Scene 3 is to bequeath more confidence in his men. The dialogue directed to the Dauphin shows more anger in Henry. With comparison to the other dialogue, which has a more friendly approach. This might indicate that Henry desires to use antagonism to eliminate the confidence in the Dauphin. Henry requires capturing the Dauphin's confidence because of the humiliation gift of tennis balls from the Dauphin himself to suggest Henry should go and play games 'play a set.' In the other speech Henry uses friendly and positive terms to provide his men with more morale to fight beside him in the battle against the Dauphin, 'we band of brothers.' In the first speech, Henry has various tone changes through out the composition, but on the other hand, Henry employs terms that are more emotional in his communication with his men. The language terminology in the first speech is more to do with arguments one on one and it has a great deal of puns. Comparing the verbal communication with the one directed at his soldiers, this one is more exposed to his men. Henry aspires to use persuasive

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The Purpose of the Learning Aid

The Purpose of the Learning Aid I decided which learning aid to make for Henry by assessing his development and needs, so that I could find out where he needs help. I have tried to create a learning aid that will benefit all aspects of Henry's development, but in particular his intellectual development. I decided on this because after discussions with both Henry and his parents, I have found out that he is very keen to learn to read and write. Henry has already begun to recognise letter shapes and sounds and I have decided that the best learning aid for me to make, would be one that builds on Henry's current knowledge. The learning aid will benefit Henry's fine motor development, as he will be able to practice holding a pen in the correct position to write. He will also be able to practice his co-ordination, through manipulating the small cards and playing the different games such as snap and pairs, and also through writing on the cards. The learning aid has been designed in particular, to develop Henry's intellectual development; it will do this in a number of ways. The game will teach him new words and ideas, for example, the difference between being tired and lazy, and the difference between a cat and a kitten. The game will also help to teach him to recognise words; Henry will be able to recognise a picture and associate the written word with its meaning. This

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Discuss Shakespeare's presentation of the ways in which Henry is a great king.

Charlotte Edwards HENRY V Discuss Shakespeare's presentation of the ways in which Henry is a great king. Shakespeare presents Henry V as a good king, and more importantly, a good leader and gives Henry many positive characteristics in order to create this image. Henry is a good orator. He has the ability to change his style of rhetoric to suit the mood and atmosphere that he is trying to create. At times in the play Henry has to persuade his people that he is one of them and that there is a bond or unity between them, almost as if he and they are brothers, all the sons of the same God and the same Country - England. This is the case particularly outside Harfleur when Henry is rousing his men to fight bravely. He creates a unity between them by using words like 'yours' and 'our': "Dear friends ... you noble English ... made in England ... you are worth your breeding". On the other hand, when they are outside Harfleur, and Henry speaks to the governor of the town (in Act 3 Scene 4), he displays the ability to put fear into his enemy. With harsh language he puts across dreadful images of his enemy's "naked infants spitted upon pikes". This instantly conveys a huge amount of terror into the men of Harfleur, who consequently surrender. This demonstrates just how powerful Henry's rhetoric is. These two situations show Henry's ability to adapt to the situation. They also

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Consider the different ways in which war is presented in Henry V.

Consider the different ways in which war is presented in Henry V. Henry V is a very efficient play for looking at the different ways war could be portrayed. Shakespeare effectively uses language in particular to show the audience that war can represent many different things, all in the space of a play. A connection between an Elizabethan audience, to which the play is directed, and the situation being portrayed in Shakespeare's Henry V is also shown in this piece of theatrical writing. The first, and possibly most effective, way of looking at different ways war is shown is through the use of language. Shakespeare uses language to show many different perspectives on war. The first perspective is war as a mighty force. Shakespeare compares the English advance into France with a natural, aggressive disaster. He says the English "came pouring like the tide into a breach" (1.2.149), likening it to an unpredictable and unstoppable force of nature. This shows war to be a great force to be feared. Another quotation to support this comment of the English being unstoppable and a force of nature is the phrase said by the French King, "rush on his host as doth the melted snow" (3.6.50). This phrase helps the audience watching the play see England as a threat, because even the French, patriotic, King is admitting that not only England, but also Henry, is a force of nature. The next

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In Henry IV Part 1, the transformation of Hal is central to Shakespeares presentation of kingly qualities. Looking at two different scenes from the play, explore the ways in which Shakespeare presents issues related to kingship and how an Elizabet

In Henry IV Part 1, the transformation of Hal is central to Shakespeare's presentation of kingly qualities. Looking at two different scenes from the play, explore the ways in which Shakespeare presents issues related to kingship and how an Elizabethan audience would have seen them. "Henry IV Part 1" is the second in Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays that focus on the consecutive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V; the play is believed to have been written no later than 1547. It is set in 1402 (beginning with Hotspur's battle at Homildon) and ends in 1403 with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury, almost 100 years before it was written. The main characters - with the exception of Sir John Falstaff - are based on real people. However, as the play is a work of fiction and written for entertainment purposes, they are probably caricatured and the dialogues will not be historically accurate. Falstaff was originally called Oldcastle after John Oldcastle, a powerful Protestant martyr. The character's name was changed to Falstaff (after Sir John Fastolf, who had a reputation for cowardice at the Battle of Patay) because of political pressure from living descendents Oldcastle who had powerful acquaintances in England. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. When he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway and they had three children. Around 1590 he became an actor,

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"What atttitudes does Graham Greene display towards traditional values and institutions we would normally respect in Travels with My Aunt?"

"What atttitudes does Graham Greene display towards traditional values and institutions we would normally respect in Travels with My Aunt?" In this novel Greene continously mocks values and institutions we, or at least at that time woould have respected. All through the play there are things Green mocks. Some of these being law and order, religion, marriage and traditional morality. This novel starts of with Henry, a very lonly but at the same time happy man. Henry is one of the few characters which Graham Greene show with a respectful attitude towards many things. He is respectuful and has no filthy vice. However, he happens to meet his Aunt Augusta and things start to change. Henry becomes highly influenced by Augusta which makes his personality change and envolves to be quite like her. I think Greene uses Augusta to mock most values. He mocks them by allowing the actual characters to do the bad things so, in a way he manipulates us by our sense of humor. I think Greene wants to show his attitude towards values using the characters in the book. We, the readers, find it funny how henry changes and the thing he does after meeting Augusta.Greene shows little respect to law and order. There are many examples i could use to prove this. The deals with the ashes shows what Green feels about the institutions. He potrays the police as being ``clumsy´´ and not keeping to what

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What persuasive techniques does Henry use in Act 4 Scene 3, Lines 16 - 67?

HENRY V Act 4 Scene 3 QUESTION: What persuasive techniques does Henry use in Act 4 Scene 3, Lines 16 - 67? Henry's speech is well prepared; he uses various key features in a persuasive leader. Before Henry starts of he is able to turn weakness into strengths. He immediately identifies what is wrong with his soldiers, the larger French army. King Henry commences by giving his soldiers confident advice, he says 'if we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country's loss.' Essentially this means that the fewer who die the better for our country, because the less loss of lives. The key feature that Henry uses is that he never mentions the word 'lose.' Since that is a negative expression. Soon after he talks about his side winning, 'and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honour.' This signifies that if they win the battle and live, Henry's soldiers will have extra honour because they had fewer men to begin with. Within Henry's sentence there is a lot of rhythm and balance. One of the key words in his dialogue is 'honour' because in Elizabethan times honour was bound up with ideas of nobility and manliness. Henry has constant reference to the divine, to get permission for his actions, 'God's will.' Additionally there is various uses of semantic fields, associated with religion, God, covet, honour and sin; all taken from the bible. Henry applies a

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Ben Bonarius Explain the Effect of Henry V’S Speech As If You Had Been There the Effect of Henry V’S Speech Was Extraordinary.

Ben Bonarius EXPLAIN THE EFFECT OF HENRY V'S SPEECH AS IF YOU HAD BEEN THERE The effect of Henry V's speech was extraordinary. Men were possessed. Before the speech men were writing to their families. Explaining how they treasured them in their hearts, and they doubt they will see them again. I woke in the mornings with a cold sweat cold, from another restless night. By restless I mean a night of haunting nightmares. My hopes drown deeper as I discover we are returning to the battlefields. At first I thought this was a joke. Our army is ravenous and terribly weary. The field is like a pigsty, everyone smells and there is a shortage of water. Hunger is getting to many of the soldiers, some have resulted to eating anything that moves. Many of my dearest friends have deceased. I dragged them back, but it was no use, they were all dead. I made sure they had a proper burial. But In this world, it doesn't matter how good a soldier you are. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time your life is over. The battlefields are a plague of dead bodies. I still can't get the murmuring and screaming of the injured out my head. They are like poltergeists. Our men are being crushed like ants each day. There's no hope among the soldiers, another day is just another death sentence, and the only thing they strive on is their family. I guess, PAUSE you either get busy living, or

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Henry VI Part 1.

HENRY VI PART 1 INTRODUCTION This is an extremely important key scene in the play as this is where all the action comes to a climax as the 2 young warriors battle it out once and for all and total redemption takes place, When Hal saves his father from the clutches of Douglas. Section 1 At the start of this climactic scene we are faced with the king and Hal and Lancaster in a tent, by the king's language we can tell that Hal has been wounded from actually fighting in the battlefield. This also shows that what Vernon said about Hal being an "angel" and like the god "mercury" is true by conveying a sense of perfection. Hal also has the god like qualities Hal "bleedest too much" but refuses to leave the field. "Shallow scratch...drive the Prince of Wales" shows how he is dismissing his wound whilst using his title which shows loyalty to his father. The rich language portrays that Hal is going to be independent. Also in this section the very princely qualities are shown by Hal as he takes time to compliment his brother because he "lends mettle to us all" and is an "ungrown warrior" similar to Hal and Hotspur. Here he is proving that he is moving away from his former self and living up to his statement of "loose behaviour I throw off" and is turning into "bright metal on sullen ground" proving his military prowess but has not yet fulfilled his total redemption theme. Whilst all

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