Dark imagery on Henry IV parts 1 and 2

The name feature of 1 Henry IV seems in Richard II as the determined, full of power, and adept Bolingbroke, who seizes the throne from the inept Richard II after expected devising his murder. Though Henry is not yet really an vintage man in 1 Henry IV, his is concerned about his crumbling kingdom, guilt over his uprising against Richard II, and the vagaries of his son's demeanour have weak his previous power and strength. Henry continues stern, aloof, and resolute, but he is no longer the force of environment he seems to be in Richard II. Henry's problem arises from his own uneasy conscience and his doubt about the legitimacy of his rule. After all, he himself is a murderer who has unlawfully usurped the throne from Richard II. Therefore, it is tough to accuse Hotspur and the Percys for liking to usurp his throne for themselves. Furthermore, it is unclear how Henry's kingship is any more legitimate than that of Richard II. Henry therefore needs the lesson legitimacy that every productive leader needs.

With these anxieties lurking at the back of his reign, Henry is incapable to direct as the magnificent foremost his child Harry will become. Throughout the play he keeps his taut, tenuous contain on the throne, and he not ever misplaces his majesty. But with an ethical sense clouded by his own sense of compromised respect, it is clear that Henry can not ever be a large monarch or any thing more than a caretaker to the throne that awaits Henry V(Greenblatt, 18).

Henry Bolingbroke - now King Henry IV - is having an unquiet reign. His individual disquiet at the means whereby he profited the crest - by deposing Richard II - would be explained by a excursion or crusade to the Holy Land to battle Muslims, but broils on his boundaries with Scotland and Wales avert that. Moreover, his guilt determinants him to mistreat the Earls Northumberland and Worcester, heads of the Percy family, and Edmund Mortimer, the Earl of March. The first two assisted him to his throne, and the third was declared by Richard, the previous monarch, as his rightful heir.

Adding to King Henry's problems is the demeanour of his child and heir, the Prince of Wales. Hal (the future Henry V) has forsaken the Royal Court to waste his time in taverns with reduced companions. This makes him an object of scorn to the nobles and calls into inquiry his regal worthiness. Hal's head ally and foil in dwelling the reduced life is Sir John Falstaff. Fat, vintage, intoxicated, and corrupt as he is, he has a charisma and a zest for life that captivates the Prince, born into a world of hypocritical pieties and mortal seriousness.

The play has three assemblies of individual characteristics that combines somewhat at the start, and then arrive simultaneously in the Battle of Shrewsbury, where the achievement of the rebellion will be decided. First there is King Henry himself and ...