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 techniques in his speech because he wishes his men not to desert him. He uses many semantic fields.
Henry also uses the imagery in his dialect. The image set in the first lecture is King Henry winning the war and he will dazzle like the ‘sun.’ The second lecture he uses the imagery of honour and the honour they will have if they win the war with less men, ‘and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honour.’ Additionally Henry can create vivid picture in the imagination of both the Dauphin and his men on the subject at hand. In the dialogue with his men Henry offers them fame and immortally, ‘he that outlives this day.’ In the other communication with the Dauphin Henry only offers a game of tennis reference to war in the courts of France, ‘that all the courts of France will be disturbed.’
The first similarity that was spotted, is he uses God in both lectures, but the word God is used in two different terminologies. In the first conversation with the Dauphin, Henry uses God as if he is God and God himself is on his side and guarantees a victory, ‘by God’s Grace.’ The second use of the term God is used in his inspiring speech to his men. This time he tries to assure his men that God will be on their side and convinces them that the divine will help. To do this Henry uses semantic fields and mentions the four most important words from the bible, God, covet, honour and sin.
Even though he assures his men, the other speech has the use of metaphors, this is when Henry places the tennis balls in the light and turns then into another object, ‘hat turned his balls to gun stones.’ With the metaphorical language, Henry employs a biblical illusion; he has a rhyming couplet, ‘unborn’ and ‘scorn.’ In the other lecture Henry uses the word ‘manliness, honour and manhood,’ to show his meanings in his speech and the significance to fight. Henry wants the speeches to have effect on his audience. The effectiveness of the first one is to humiliate the Dauphin by taking up the theme of tennis, but the second is to give confidence to his soldiers to fight beside him and give assurance they will win.
The assurance and boosting morale in his speech has made it unique, but also has been manipulated and interpreted by many leader now days. In conclusion, both speeches have much effective terminology. The contrast of the two speeches has shown that the audiences are different, purpose is unusual and the structure has anger in one and emotion in the other. The only similarity is that both have reference to the superior being, ‘God.’ Henry has put God in the light, so he will be able to use God as a weapon and an inspiring person. The main assumption drawn is that both verbal communications have effectiveness, structure, language and imagery.
