Act 1 scene 2, lines 108-09.Like every one of Shakespeare’s plays, Henry IV Part 1 explores language: its power to inspire action, to transform attitude, to reveal a character, and to conceal one. "Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.? Falstaff to Prince Hal. PRINCE HENRY The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,Key themes in the play Kingship is a key theme, not just of this play, but of the tetralogy of which Henry IV, Part 1 forms a part, and of Shakespeare's. Enter KING HENRY, PRINCE HENRY, Lord John of LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and FALSTAFF KING HENRY IV How bloodily the sun begins to peer Above yon busky hill the day looks pale At his distemperature. KING HENRY IV's camp near Shrewsbury.
Act I, scene 2, lines 199-200. "I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humor of your idleness.?Prince Hal, speaking of his disreputable friends. Medieval legend (popularly accepted by Elizabethans as authoritative) and certain philosophical concepts which The main theme of Henry IV, Part I is the politic concealment and exhibi-tion of seminally transmitted virtue.
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"Greatness knows itself.? Hotspur speaks to Sir Walter Blunt. Act 3, scene 3, lines 172-73. "I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.? The fat Falstaff to Prince Hal. "O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil! Hotspur to Glendower. Act 3, scene 1, lines 52-54.
"The better part of valor is discretion.?Falstaff on how he has managed to save his own life by pretending to be dead.
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