Henry empowers those around him by putting his trust in his men. When he finds out that his favored men, Scroop, Cambridge, and Grey have betrayed him he quickly disempowers them.
In the speech “we are glad the Dauphin” the French Dauphin in the first scene sends the French ambassador to England to give Henry a message. Henry finds out that the Dauphin is mocking him by giving him Tennis balls. The messenger gets a bit of a shock when he hears what Henry is replying. “ We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us” We see that Henry is not happy with what the Dauphin has done by mocking him and now wants to go to war and turn the tennis balls in the cannons. Henry uses inclusive language by saying ‘We’ because he is in empowering himself by including everyone around him. “His present and your pains we thank you for” Henry uses a mocking tone and also sarcasm as we can see he is not happy with what the French Dauphin has done. Henry take offence to this and says “Shall this mock mock out of their husbands, mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down” Henry uses repetition of ‘mock’ showing his aggression that the Dauphin has brought to him. The quote is an example of what Henry is now going to do to get back at the French Dauphin.
The speech ‘we are glad the Dauphin’ is similar in a way to the speech “ The mercy that was quick” with Henry punishing people for there actions and what they have done. As we saw in the speech ‘we are glad the Dauphin’ and how Henry is furious with what the French Dauphin did by mocking him. His own soldiers in ‘ the mercy that was quick’ betrayed him by sending letters saying they could kill the King. Henry’s soldiers Scroop, Cambridge and Grey “ For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, as dogs turn on their masters, worry you”. Henry uses this quote because it is exactly what his noble solider did to him, by turning on their master. “See you, my princes, and my noble peers, these English Monsters!” We see that Henry is referring to the Soldiers as English Monster because of what they have done. The quote uses a metaphor referring to the soldiers as monsters.
Well done Charlie - avoid saying "this quote shows" or "this quote is an example of" etc...it just sounds too simple and unacademic.
Your words need to sound a little more sophisticated too - but I'm sure you know that. Go back and have a look at my notes and see if you can find some ways in there that sound a wee bit better.
How does Henry empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels need a lesson?
In your answer, refer to both 'We Are Glad The Dauphin' and 'The Mercy That Was Quick'.
In, 'We Are Glad The Dauphin' and ‘The Mercy That Was Quick', it is easy to observe King Henry’s advanced ability to empower and disempower others. He does this through the use of descriptive word combinations and a vast array of language techniques and tones.
In Henry’s reaction to the Dauphins response , 'We Are Glad The Dauphin' it is clearly seen that king Henry achieves his objective of empowering the members of the court and himself, and disempowering the French emissary and therefore the French dauphin, drawing his new loyal subjects closer to him. This disempowerment is seen in the very first line of the monologue as the words “we are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us, his pleasure and your pains we thank you for”, a very unexpected immediately empowering king henry giving him control over the situation making the emissary uneasy, this is dew to doth the mocking and sarcastic tones. King Henry’s choice of using this rather then anger to insult his enemy is a show of intelligence as he is able to break someone without the use of physicality. He then goes on to use a sporting metaphor in connection with the tennis balls the dauphin sent too him. “We will, in France, by god’s grace play a set shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard.”, stating that as result of the dauphins joke, he will battle him in France and he will win, for he has not just the power of England but the great power of God on his side, using religious allusion. He then cleverly states how he will turn the dauphins own people on him, stating the joke that he has just played will kill the husbands and sons, knock down the castle walls, turn wife’s to widows, and that when he is done and has risen full of glory, he will dazzle the people of France and put the dauphin to shame, for even he wont be laughing at the joke he made. “but I will rise there with so full a glory that I will dazzle the eyes of France, yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look at us. King Henry does this with the use of repetition and metaphor. “For many a thousand widows shall his mock mock out of their dear husbands; mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down”. King Henrys clever use of dialog and many language techniques to very effectively empower and disempower who ever he so desires with relative ease.
When King Henry discovers that is closest and most loyal comrades have betrayed him, he uses a similar method of disempowerment on those who have betrayed him, and empowerment to himself and many to those who are loyal to him. Once again before the monologue has even started he, put the three that betrayed him on the major back foot, by bringing them up by saying that he is going to promote them, but then brings them down sharply as they relies that the letter confirming there promotion was the once they signed confirming that they would kill him. In conjunction he brings up the topic of punishment before hand, he uses this in monologue to further stress how they disserve no mercy. Once again Henry cleverly uses metaphor “what so ever cunning fiend it was that wrought upon thee so preposterously hath got the voice in hell for excellence.”, in this metaphor he likens the french “ fiend” to a person that belongs “in hell”. By committing such an act of high treason, Scroop, Cambridge and Grey have, as Henry believes allowed themselves to be seduced by the French who hath got the voice in hell for excellence. This is a very shrewd and astute example of how Henry disempowers the French by depersonalizing them and associating them to the devil.
Try and really go into a wee bit more detail in your analysis. So, for instance, when you've written...
He then goes on to use a sporting metaphor in connection with the tennis balls the dauphin sent too him. “We will, in France, by god’s grace play a set shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard.”, stating that as result of the dauphins joke, he will battle him in France and he will win, for he has not just the power of England but the great power of God on his side, using religious allusion.
That was good. Good depth of analysis!
BUT, when you've written...
King Henry does this with the use of repetition and metaphor. “For many a thousand widows shall his mock mock out of their dear husbands; mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down”
There's not enough detail in there...see the difference?
Henry empowers people around him such as the nobles, lords and dukes while cutting down people that need a lesson, he dose this to assert his power and to ensure those that have wronged him know that he is in control.
A sense of empowerment is present in the speech “We are glad the Dauphin” while hennery is addressing the messenger he states “by gods grace, play a set shall strike his fathers crown into hazard” henry uses this powerful biblical allusion to empower himself, his nobles, dukes and England by stating that it is god is on their side, instilling a sense of pride in the room around him. He uses a sporting metaphor to turn the Dauphins mocking ‘gift’ back on him insinuating that he will take the French kings crown off him while referring to war as a set in a game of tennis. Henry empowers those around him furthermore in the speech “the mercy that was quick” when he is addressing the traitors he says “see you, my princes, and Nobel peers, These English monsters!” by using juxtaposition comparing the traitor to monsters, he de humanizes them and in doing so further disempowers them making it easy to punish them as it would be just like killing an animal and also empowers the nobles with his positive language by referring to them as “princes” this also is ensuring their loyalty as they now know that they will be treated like animals if they betray him.
This theme of de-humanization of the traitors is clearly evident further in the speech TMTWQ as he says “what shall I say to thee, lord scroop, thou cruel ungrateful, savage and inhuman creature?” his use of a rhetorical question supports his metaphor of comparing them to a “savage” beast, this is because of the betrayal he feels form one of his most trusted friends. The comparism of him being an ungrateful animal is as an animal would turn
This theme of de-humanization of the traitors is clearly evident further in the speech TMTWQ as he says “what shall I say to thee, lord scroop, thou cruel ungrateful, savage and inhuman creature?” his use of a rhetorical question supports his metaphor of comparing them to a “savage” beast, this is because of the betrayal he feels form one of his most trusted friends. The compares of him being an ungrateful animal is as an animal would turn on anyone for what they want, and this is what scroop has done. King hennery changes tone at the conclusion of the speech by saying “I will weep for thee, for this revolt of thine methinks is like another fall of man” hennery drops is aggressive attack on the traitor and draws his speech to a close with a powerful rhetoric question. He dose this to show not only his anger but also his deep hurt and sadness that 3 of his most loyal advisors have betrayed him. This deep hurt is evident with his use of biblical illusion as he compares their fall as to the one of Adam and eve, possibly one of the grates falls mankind has ever witnessed. He dose this so their guilt is imbedded that they did not only betray him, but they betrayed god as in their time the king was believed to be picked from god – thus deciveing an even higher power that the king giving them doubts on the afterlife of which they will most defiantly meet soon after they are executed for treason.
Not a bad effort on both your efforts. While you've chosen your quotes cleverly and gone into some detail - you really needed to go deeper (don't be rude)...
Have a look at the examples I've used on Curt's post.
a. henry empowers those around him and cuts down the persons he feels need to be taught a lesson, and we can see this in two speeches, ‘We are glad the dauphin’ and ‘the mercy that was quick’. henry does this by using a range of techniques to empower and disempower.
we are glad the dauphin, is a speech given by henry towards a french emissary who has been sent by the french dauphin in reply to henry’s wishes on claiming lands within france that hold great internal meaning for henry. henry’s response to the mocking gift of tennis balls, that were presented to him by the emissary, his speech empowers his nobleman and earls that surround him as well as himself, this speech also disempowers the dauphin and his emissary. henry’s speech begins subtly as to thanking the dauphin and the emissary but he is then quick to give a powerful statement regarding the tennis balls and the lack of respect shown by the french leader “when we have match’d our rackets to these balls, we will, in france, by gods grace, play a set shall strike his fathers crown”. henry has used his quick whit to use the game of tennis as a metaphor in his speech, to represent a battle that shall take place “in france” between these two nations, henry determines this battle will result in a victory for himself and his nation “strike his fathers crown” again using the metaphor of tennis balls that are striking the crown of france and knocking in “into hazard” where is reality he is meaning that he will battle in france and knock the crown of france off with an english victory, this use of the metaphor greatly disempowers the french emissary and by doing this henry is disempowering his sender the dauphin, also by henry stating that there will be an english victory empowers his followers with a sense of patriotism and pride in there king and country. “by god’s grace” henry use of this biblical allusion, states he believes that with the help of god he will have a battle in france “play a set” and he will win, this once again empowers his followers to believe that god is on their side and if henry believes that then so do they, also disempowering the dauphin and his emissary by stating that god has abandoned you and is on our side, the divine power will help england. henry’s pausing between statements in the speech gives his retort a very stern and reassuring tone, once again allows his nobleman and earls to feel comfort in his words, his confidence in these words shows that he will follow his words disempowering the dauphin and his emissary by showing great confidence alluding that he will certainly defeat the french in battle.
the mercy that was quick, is given by henry towards the three of his closest allies SCG (scroop, cambridge and grey) after he receives news that they have betrayed him and offered to kill henry for a price for the dauphin, henry has gathered his nobleman and earles to what they believe is to converse upon the looming battle with france. this speech empowers his loyal nobles and allies, himself and the nation of england, where as it disempowers SCG, the french and any would be traitors. SCG believe they are about to be promoted, henry asks these men what he shall do about a drunken that has dishonoured him, these men gibe their opinion that no mercy should be shown towards this man, henry’s speech opens with the clever line “The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill’d” this whity response is turning the words that SCG have just said about the drunken, and henry has placed those words upon them. this quote is stating why should henry place mercy upon SCG if they haven’t given mercy to a simple drunk. this disempowers SCG as he has shamed them and turned there own words against him and has shamed them publicly, he has empowered his loyal followers by showing that he will find those who are disloyal and make the right descisions
Not going to lie...there are a lot of spelling mistakes here. But your ideas are solid. What sort of structure did you use? It's not overly apparent. Next time, either go through the speech chronologically OR choose a particular aspect (inclusive, positive and buoyant language) of Henry's speeches, explore that. Then, go onto a next one (metaphors), then the next one (allusions)...see what I mean?
In TMTQ and WAGID, Henry the 5th bothj empowers the people around him and disempowers those who feel needs a lesson. In WAGID He uses strong emotive and powerful language to evoke feelings towards the character making himself and his followers and peers feel superior while making the people such as the French messenger and the duphain rather inferior and disempowered. Similarly, in TMTWQ, Henry completely disempowers Scrute, Cambridge and Grey mainly, but the effect that it left on the three traitors acted as a warning to any other loyal servants who plan on betraying the king
In TMTWQ, Henry states before hand that he should show mercy towards the drunken man who abused him but Scroop, Cambridge and grey do not appreciate this level of mercy. Henry then presents the three with their letters which they then ask for mercy themselves. “The mercy that was quick in us but late by your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare, for shame to talk of mercy”. Henry is stating here that before these three traitors spoke of not giving the drunk man any mercy but now they wish for it themselves. Henry’s powerful simile in “As dogs upon their masters” suggests that what was loyal to them has turned against themselves as if a dog has turn against his master. The trio are very much become disempowered as Henry uses intense imagery to supereriorise himself as well as interiorize the three. The powerful use of juxtaposition “See you my noble princes, these English monsters” presents the traitors as monsters and depersonalizing them. The juxtaposition separates them from the rest of the society and also, as he recognizes the noble princes, it ensures their loyalty and also empowering them. Lord scroop is then dealt with individually and physically to serve the purpose of showing the other lords what he is capable of and uses aggressive language to again depersonalize him and coming onto him like a tonne of bricks. In WAGID, Henry goes down a more sophisticated path of dealing with the joke that was played on him. Henry accomplishes the idea of disempowering the duphaine and the emissary by the use of a sarcastic and mocking tone. This tone sets the scene for what the emissary is about to experience. Henry then turns the joke towards the emissary as he stresses “we will, in France, by gods grace, play a set shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard”. This clever use of metaphorically describing the battle they will have with the French reverses the sarcasm back onto the emissary or duphaine. The religious allousion that Henry states is targeted at the lords of the castle and gives them a sense of pride so that not only is Henry empowering himself, he is also empowering those loyal to him. In TMTWQ, Henry completely disempowers the three lords by making them feel weak and standing over them as if he was their enemy where as WAGID acted as more of a warning and an act of frustration also in TMTWQ, the uncle of Henry feels obligated in commencing an epic face slap which is just the epitome of disempowerment.
I liked this - The powerful use of juxtaposition “See you my noble princes, these English monsters” presents the traitors as monsters and depersonalizing them. The juxtaposition separates them from the rest of the society and also, as he recognizes the noble princes, it ensures their loyalty and also empowering them. - it was really good. Might have needed a fraction more depth BUT still pretty good Brazzers.
And I really liked your PARAPHRASING - how you've incorporated your quotes... "Henry then turns the joke towards the emissary as he stresses “we will, in France, by gods grace, play a set shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard”
How does Henry empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels need a lesson?
Both “the mercy that was quick” and “We are glad the Dauphin” speeches from henry V has empower those around him while also cutting his enemy. His uses of different language such as sarcasm, imagery and juxtaposition has a dramatic affect on empower himself to be superior to those he is trying to discard.
“The mercy that was quick” is the speech made by Henry V when he had found out that his three royalist knights, Scroop, Cambridge and Grey, has been planning to kill him for the French Dauphin. As the scene introduce the “drunken man” who speak of jest in the king’s action of war. However, Henry V has given “mercy” for the drunken man, as he is drunk. Scroop, Cambridge and Grey however, disagree with this action of mercy and suggest that the man should be punished. However, after the three knights has receive the letter of “promotion” saying that “I know you are worth it”, the used of paradox is present us their action are not actually acceptable. Their immediacy asks for mercy. “The mercy that was quick in us but late, is suppressed and killed”. Henry V is seemed to be mocking the three traitors like a puppet. As “your own reason turn into your bosoms, as dogs upon their master”, the uses of power simile suggest that these knights have no shame on their words. Not even when they attempt in asking for mercy while just a second ago, said that mercy is to punish. Their words of lie has comes back to haunt them. Henry is very disappointing that his own men has trying to betray him behind his present, as “See you, my princes and my noble peers, These English monsters”. Henry introduce juxtaposition to empower his “prince” and “noble” while pity those that are enemies. The word “monsters” also is an imagery that take humanity from them.
“We are glad the Dauphin” also a speech made by Henry V that has massive impact on audience that witness how Henry empower his peer but with no sympathy, disregard his enemy. The uses of sarcasm and unpleasant but clam tone are use as he said, “We are glad the Dauphin are so pleasant with us, His pleasant an your pains we thank you for”. As he use sarcasm to represent the pain and consequence that the French is about to face. He also uses another sarcasm and metaphor to challenge the French into war as “We will, in France. By God’s grace, play a set. Shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard”, The “set” can be represent as a “round” of battle in which they both will be playing. Henry has empowered and create certainly of winning the battle to his peers as “God’s” will be on his side when in war and his “set” will be the battle that question the existence of the French king crown. Lastly, Henry has created regrets in his enemy heart as he listed the outcome that his battle will bring to France. “Shall mock mock out from their dear husbands, Mock mother from their son, Mock castle down”. The uses of imagery to let the French emissary imagine the cost that his Dauphin has made, As husband and son will be separate from their mother since after the war, they are not coming back. By juxtaposition, Henry also empowers himself while disregarding the French Dauphin and his father, allowing his peers to witness the consequence that not to mock with King Henry V.
In conclusion, Henry V speech is a powerful taunting speech that empowers himself and his comrade while disregarding and weakens his enemy confident. This is achieve through the use of powerful language technique such as metaphor, imagery, juxtaposition and different tone.
You're really improving a lot, Plug. Well done, champ.
Your English is really getting better.
I am very pleased with your analysis and, while we need to watch the correctness of your grammar, you've gone into good detail and clearly understand the speeches.
Henry empowers those around him through his powerful language but yet undermining tone, which he displays in henry the fifth. Right from the beginning of his speech we witness Henrys Preaching tone, “you must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy” due to the sly and great betrayal pursued by his Royal nights (Scoop Cambridge and Grey). The powerful simile Henry states, “your own reasons turn into your bosoms as dogs upon their masters” suggests the beliefs of the knights to make money can briskly reform into weaknesses as they have come back to haunt them as a disloyal dog would do to his owners; “dogs upon their masters”. In contrast to this speech, we are Glad The Dauphin embarks differently. We witness Henry’s influential but strong language and tone as he seeks to make his point “When we have matched our rackets to these balls we will, in France, by God’s grace, play a set”. The strong yet clever metaphor displayed here lets the French Ambassador know what they’ve lets them in for as Henry is saying that they will match their army and in God’s name will start a war. He persists with his serious and preaching tone stating that “that all the court of France will be disturbed”, meaning this war will prove to have great effect on the country. Henry continues to emphasize his point by empowering himself through one of the most versatile line in his speech “Be like a king and show my sail of greatness”. He is stating how he will lead his country to victory, as he will “Be like a king” by proving his power through his “sail of greatness”; a metaphor portraying his leadership skills through his influential tone.
In resemblance to the powerful influential tone shown here The Mercy that was quick displays clever yet a reflective tone as he is ashamed of his three nights; the bitter betrayal. We witness the clever juxtaposition used, which reads, “See you, my princes and my noble peers, These English monsters” as he used and enduring terms like “noble” and “princess” and inverts them with the spiteful monster imagery. He shows the inhumanity of Scoop, Cambridge and Grey by disempowering them and empowering himself. We go on to see Henry’s anger and emotions as his true thoughts are revealed as he believes that “this man Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired, And sworn unto the practices of France”. His aggressive hyperbole suggests that the deed he aspired to do what not financially beneficial for such betrayal.
How does Henry empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels need a lesson?
In Shakespeare’s play ‘The Mercy that was quick’ and ‘ We are glad the Dauphin’ he uses a wide variety of language techniques to show how Henry empowers the people around him and how some of his men such as Scroop, Cambridge and Grey need a lesson.
In the first scene of ‘We are glad the dauphin’ we are given the impression that the French Dauphin is beginning to think that he is ‘being mocked’ by the French Ambassador when he is sent the tennis balls. The French Ambassadors use of sarcasm shows how angry he is with the Dauphin “we are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us” and also gives us the sense that he is going to over react when it comes to retaliating to this message in wanting to go to war by turning the tennis balls into cannon balls. We can see how he has used inclusive language in this quote because he has included everyone when explain that ‘We’ will go to war with them instead of just counting for himself. The dauphin uses a metaphor of the playing a set of tennis with the French explaining the war and explains that he is going to turn the tennis balls into cannon balls and send them back ‘We will, in France, by God’s grace, play a set Shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard’.
He again uses a sarcastic tone when he is explaining that ‘his present and your pains we thank you for’ again gets him to realize that he is being mocked by the French Ambassador. When he realizes he is being mocked he decides he will turn the joke back onto the French by mocking them ‘Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down’, This quote explains how the French’s sarcastic tone has lead to a major retaliation in being the war.
The speech ‘The Mercy that was quick’ is quite similar to ‘We are glad the Dauphin’ in that the way the Dauphin mistreats and punishes people for their actions. A metaphor is used at the beginning of the poem to show how Scroop, Cambridge and Grey turn upon king Henry ‘For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.’ This metaphor of the dogs shows that dogs never turn on their masters and is explaining how Scroop, Cambridge and Grey turn on Henry.
See how you've written this - We can see how he has used inclusive language in this quote because he has included everyone when explain that ‘We’ will go to war with them instead of just counting for himself. -
You needed to go into more detail. What does this do for the men around him? Be more specific.
Another example is when you've written - This metaphor of the dogs shows that dogs never turn on their masters and is explaining how Scroop, Cambridge and Grey turn on Henry.
See how it isn't really enough? You could have another 1-2 sentences on this to detail how the empowerment is being manipulated by Henry (and thus Shakespeare).
Through the speech ‘we are Glad the Dauphin’ and ‘The Mercy that was quick’ shows the empowerment and disempowerment. Empowerment and Disempowerment was shown within the speech of ‘We are Glad The Dauphin’ as King Henry lowers the French ambassador and makes his colleagues and noble higher, and makes them rise to this challenge of war and glory. The ‘mercy that was quick’ shows power, of how quickly Henry ability to disempower his nobles. Through this speech he contrasts a scenario to what happen and let his noble judge. The speech ‘We are Glad The Dauphin’ and The Mercy That was quick ‘has many difference and similarities as one was empowering while the other was disempowering. While Henry disempowers the French ambassador in the speech we are “Glad the Dauphin” , its is arguably one of henry most clever metaphor , that likens the French “friend” that he belongs “in hell”. “His present and your pains we thank you for” as he will have” a match our racket to these balls”. This shows the emotion that the Henry is not so easily to be mocked “out of there dear husbands”. It also shows henry protruding into an assault as he sets his baseline with a metaphorical quote of war as “they play a set”. The set that they are about to play is a war that “I will dazzle all the eyes of France” . Since the France was so stubborn (no offence) that this was a great offence to them and their country. This is the base of the quote as hennery takes his stance to disempower the French ambassador and empowers his nobles by also taking them with their glorious journey from “turning tennis balls into cannon balls”. “The mercy that was quick “shows the blow that Henry takes on his nobles as an example who “wonders to want on treason and on murder”. As there reason turn “into your bosoms” as he says it to “the creature”. The use of ungrateful, savage, and inhumane description shows henry at his very upmost anger and fury .The use of animal imagery disempowers the traitors as referred as animals in that time were not treated fairly other than today.. The rhetorical question also suggestion there indeed nothing left to say to one of his most trust advisor .This description was from the “bottom of my soul”. Henry uses cleverly the words of “truth” as to emphasise the traitor damage by contrasting “black and white” as it shows the loyalty, shown through his “poignant smile”, but such treachery shall not be tolerated. This shows Henries treachery of disempowering people from “noble peers” to “inhuman creatures”. Effective techniques are created to emphasise the disempowerment and empowerment of his men or the French, but most effectively was the use of someone’s argument and backfiring it back to the victims to disempower or empower people. This is shown when their “own reason turn into your bosoms as dog upon his master”. This enticing simile has cleverly tricked the “inhuman creature” to contradict their own statement, as before this they were talking if they should give mercy to a traitor. As their own fate was decided by their own lies, by coming back and biting them like “dogs upon their master” .Henry imagery stripped them of his power and left them like beggars on the street. Another use of backfire, is in the speech “we are glad the dauphin”. The clever use of Dauphin gesture backfire him when” we will, in France, by God’s Grace Play a set shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard”. In this quote henry uses sporting metaphor that reverse the sarcasm back onto the French ambassador. The gods shall be with him as this was one religious allusion that with potent and allows Henry lord to present pride in the use of inclusive language as well. Through the supporting of a great cause as the “gods “with him .
Perpetual to the context of the two speeches that Henry presents to disempower and empower people that are with or not with him. Many through inclusive language or harsh content that henry presents. Through this we may be able to recognise the henry speech has empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels needs a lesson.
Christopher Leung How does Henry empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels need a lesson? In your answer, refer to both 'We Are Glad The Dauphin' and 'The Mercy That Was Quick'.
He cuts down the people he dislikes, whilst empowering the people around him, the motherland and himself. He does this in "We Are Glad The Dauphin" through the use of similes, Sporting Metaphors, Religions Allusions and metaphors.
"We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set," Alluding the the fact that the Dauphin has presented him with balls, Harry will turn those balls into cannon balls and ,"Strike his father's crown into the hazard."
"Hath turned his balls to gun-stones"......"For many a thousand widows shall this his mock, mock out of their dear husbands; mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down." King Henry illustrates the impending doom of the Dauphin, and that the jest, while well wrought, will be badly accepted, and, in turn, bowl over castles, men and their children.
"That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn." This phrase tells the audience that, because of the Dauphins jest, King Henry has unleashed his wrath on the soldiers of France. "There be no wrath, like that of Harry."
"But this lies all within the will of God, to whomI do appeal; and in whose name." This Religious allusion shows the ambassador that God is on the side of England, disempowering the French Dauphin, and in turn, empowering his court.
"His jest shall savour but a shallow wit." This quote by Harry tells the ambassador that, although the Dauphin has played his card, King Henry's retribution will be ten-fold the jest, which is the total domination of Aquitaine.
"When thousands weep more than did laugh at it." He foretells that the war will conclude with the death of many French troops.
The tone seems to start off as calm and cool, climaxing towards the middle, and slowing down towards the end.
"The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd: You must not dare, FOR SHAME, to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying you."
This paragraph tells us of the Mercy that was killed and subsided by Cambridge, Scroop and Grey. In the day, shame was as important as respect, shame being much more important back then. As King Henry says, 'You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy,' He implies that it would be better to die than to ask for mercy, and to shame.
"As dogs upon their masters, worrying you." This quote is like a poem by William Butler Yeats, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer". The dogs turn upon their master, as though the last, most unlikely thing to happen, has happened, or in this case, Scroop, Cambridge and Grey, turning on their master, Henry.
"See you, my princes, and my noble peers, These English monsters!" Henry empowers his court whilst disempowering the traitors through the use of inclusing language, which somehow, also includes all of England, as "These English...".
"This man hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired, and sworn unto the practises of France." Henry makes the conspiracy reward seem insignificantly small, compared to the potential death of the King of England. "To kill us here in Hampton", signifying that the death of Henry would definitely signify the loss of England in the Battle of Agincourt.
"That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold" Henry relates the actions of Scroop as "Turning Harry into gold", converting the King into golden coins.
"Tis so strange that, though the truth of it stands off as gross as black and white, my eye will scarcely see it." King Henry, although the treachery is shown in plain sight, will not believe that his best friend has betrayed him.
"Hath got the voice in hell for excellence." This quote suggest that this betrayal has most likely brought from the High-rankings of hell. This is also a juxtaposition of hell and excellence.
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Henry empowers those around him by putting his trust in his men. When he finds out that his favored men, Scroop, Cambridge, and Grey have betrayed him he quickly disempowers them.
ReplyDeleteIn the speech “we are glad the Dauphin” the French Dauphin in the first scene sends the French ambassador to England to give Henry a message. Henry finds out that the Dauphin is mocking him by giving him Tennis balls. The messenger gets a bit of a shock when he hears what Henry is replying. “ We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us” We see that Henry is not happy with what the Dauphin has done by mocking him and now wants to go to war and turn the tennis balls in the cannons. Henry uses inclusive language by saying ‘We’ because he is in empowering himself by including everyone around him. “His present and your pains we thank you for” Henry uses a mocking tone and also sarcasm as we can see he is not happy with what the French Dauphin has done. Henry take offence to this and says “Shall this mock mock out of their husbands, mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down” Henry uses repetition of ‘mock’ showing his aggression that the Dauphin has brought to him. The quote is an example of what Henry is now going to do to get back at the French Dauphin.
The speech ‘we are glad the Dauphin’ is similar in a way to the speech “ The mercy that was quick” with Henry punishing people for there actions and what they have done. As we saw in the speech ‘we are glad the Dauphin’ and how Henry is furious with what the French Dauphin did by mocking him. His own soldiers in ‘ the mercy that was quick’ betrayed him by sending letters saying they could kill the King. Henry’s soldiers Scroop, Cambridge and Grey “ For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, as dogs turn on their masters, worry you”. Henry uses this quote because it is exactly what his noble solider did to him, by turning on their master. “See you, my princes, and my noble peers, these English Monsters!” We see that Henry is referring to the Soldiers as English Monster because of what they have done. The quote uses a metaphor referring to the soldiers as monsters.
Well done Charlie - avoid saying "this quote shows" or "this quote is an example of" etc...it just sounds too simple and unacademic.
DeleteYour words need to sound a little more sophisticated too - but I'm sure you know that. Go back and have a look at my notes and see if you can find some ways in there that sound a wee bit better.
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How does Henry empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels need a lesson?
ReplyDeleteIn your answer, refer to both 'We Are Glad The Dauphin' and 'The Mercy That Was Quick'.
In, 'We Are Glad The Dauphin' and ‘The Mercy That Was Quick', it is easy to observe King Henry’s advanced ability to empower and disempower others. He does this through the use of descriptive word combinations and a vast array of language techniques and tones.
In Henry’s reaction to the Dauphins response , 'We Are Glad The Dauphin' it is clearly seen that king Henry achieves his objective of empowering the members of the court and himself, and disempowering the French emissary and therefore the French dauphin, drawing his new loyal subjects closer to him. This disempowerment is seen in the very first line of the monologue as the words “we are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us, his pleasure and your pains we thank you for”, a very unexpected immediately empowering king henry giving him control over the situation making the emissary uneasy, this is dew to doth the mocking and sarcastic tones. King Henry’s choice of using this rather then anger to insult his enemy is a show of intelligence as he is able to break someone without the use of physicality. He then goes on to use a sporting metaphor in connection with the tennis balls the dauphin sent too him. “We will, in France, by god’s grace play a set shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard.”, stating that as result of the dauphins joke, he will battle him in France and he will win, for he has not just the power of England but the great power of God on his side, using religious allusion. He then cleverly states how he will turn the dauphins own people on him, stating the joke that he has just played will kill the husbands and sons, knock down the castle walls, turn wife’s to widows, and that when he is done and has risen full of glory, he will dazzle the people of France and put the dauphin to shame, for even he wont be laughing at the joke he made. “but I will rise there with so full a glory that I will dazzle the eyes of France, yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look at us. King Henry does this with the use of repetition and metaphor. “For many a thousand widows shall his mock mock out of their dear husbands; mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down”. King Henrys clever use of dialog and many language techniques to very effectively empower and disempower who ever he so desires with relative ease.
When King Henry discovers that is closest and most loyal comrades have betrayed him, he uses a similar method of disempowerment on those who have betrayed him, and empowerment to himself and many to those who are loyal to him. Once again before the monologue has even started he, put the three that betrayed him on the major back foot, by bringing them up by saying that he is going to promote them, but then brings them down sharply as they relies that the letter confirming there promotion was the once they signed confirming that they would kill him. In conjunction he brings up the topic of punishment before hand, he uses this in monologue to further stress how they disserve no mercy. Once again Henry cleverly uses metaphor “what so ever cunning fiend it was that wrought upon thee so preposterously hath got the voice in hell for excellence.”, in this metaphor he likens the french “ fiend” to a person that belongs “in hell”. By committing such an act of high treason, Scroop, Cambridge and Grey have, as Henry believes allowed themselves to be seduced by the French who hath got the voice in hell for excellence. This is a very shrewd and astute example of how Henry disempowers the French by depersonalizing them and associating them to the devil.
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DeleteTry and really go into a wee bit more detail in your analysis. So, for instance, when you've written...
He then goes on to use a sporting metaphor in connection with the tennis balls the dauphin sent too him. “We will, in France, by god’s grace play a set shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard.”, stating that as result of the dauphins joke, he will battle him in France and he will win, for he has not just the power of England but the great power of God on his side, using religious allusion.
That was good. Good depth of analysis!
BUT, when you've written...
King Henry does this with the use of repetition and metaphor. “For many a thousand widows shall his mock mock out of their dear husbands; mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down”
There's not enough detail in there...see the difference?
Good effort, however. Really clever analysis!
Henry empowers people around him such as the nobles, lords and dukes while cutting down people that need a lesson, he dose this to assert his power and to ensure those that have wronged him know that he is in control.
ReplyDeleteA sense of empowerment is present in the speech “We are glad the Dauphin” while hennery is addressing the messenger he states “by gods grace, play a set shall strike his fathers crown into hazard” henry uses this powerful biblical allusion to empower himself, his nobles, dukes and England by stating that it is god is on their side, instilling a sense of pride in the room around him. He uses a sporting metaphor to turn the Dauphins mocking ‘gift’ back on him insinuating that he will take the French kings crown off him while referring to war as a set in a game of tennis. Henry empowers those around him furthermore in the speech “the mercy that was quick” when he is addressing the traitors he says “see you, my princes, and Nobel peers, These English monsters!” by using juxtaposition comparing the traitor to monsters, he de humanizes them and in doing so further disempowers them making it easy to punish them as it would be just like killing an animal and also empowers the nobles with his positive language by referring to them as “princes” this also is ensuring their loyalty as they now know that they will be treated like animals if they betray him.
This theme of de-humanization of the traitors is clearly evident further in the speech TMTWQ as he says “what shall I say to thee, lord scroop, thou cruel ungrateful, savage and inhuman creature?” his use of a rhetorical question supports his metaphor of comparing them to a “savage” beast, this is because of the betrayal he feels form one of his most trusted friends. The comparism of him being an ungrateful animal is as an animal would turn
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DeleteThis theme of de-humanization of the traitors is clearly evident further in the speech TMTWQ as he says “what shall I say to thee, lord scroop, thou cruel ungrateful, savage and inhuman creature?” his use of a rhetorical question supports his metaphor of comparing them to a “savage” beast, this is because of the betrayal he feels form one of his most trusted friends. The compares of him being an ungrateful animal is as an animal would turn on anyone for what they want, and this is what scroop has done. King hennery changes tone at the conclusion of the speech by saying “I will weep for thee, for this revolt of thine methinks is like another fall of man” hennery drops is aggressive attack on the traitor and draws his speech to a close with a powerful rhetoric question. He dose this to show not only his anger but also his deep hurt and sadness that 3 of his most loyal advisors have betrayed him. This deep hurt is evident with his use of biblical illusion as he compares their fall as to the one of Adam and eve, possibly one of the grates falls mankind has ever witnessed. He dose this so their guilt is imbedded that they did not only betray him, but they betrayed god as in their time the king was believed to be picked from god – thus deciveing an even higher power that the king giving them doubts on the afterlife of which they will most defiantly meet soon after they are executed for treason.
Not a bad effort on both your efforts. While you've chosen your quotes cleverly and gone into some detail - you really needed to go deeper (don't be rude)...
DeleteHave a look at the examples I've used on Curt's post.
a. henry empowers those around him and cuts down the persons he feels need to be taught a lesson, and we can see this in two speeches, ‘We are glad the dauphin’ and ‘the mercy that was quick’. henry does this by using a range of techniques to empower and disempower.
ReplyDeletewe are glad the dauphin, is a speech given by henry towards a french emissary who has been sent by the french dauphin in reply to henry’s wishes on claiming lands within france that hold great internal meaning for henry. henry’s response to the mocking gift of tennis balls, that were presented to him by the emissary, his speech empowers his nobleman and earls that surround him as well as himself, this speech also disempowers the dauphin and his emissary. henry’s speech begins subtly as to thanking the dauphin and the emissary but he is then quick to give a powerful statement regarding the tennis balls and the lack of respect shown by the french leader “when we have match’d our rackets to these balls, we will, in france, by gods grace, play a set shall strike his fathers crown”. henry has used his quick whit to use the game of tennis as a metaphor in his speech, to represent a battle that shall take place “in france” between these two nations, henry determines this battle will result in a victory for himself and his nation “strike his fathers crown” again using the metaphor of tennis balls that are striking the crown of france and knocking in “into hazard” where is reality he is meaning that he will battle in france and knock the crown of france off with an english victory, this use of the metaphor greatly disempowers the french emissary and by doing this henry is disempowering his sender the dauphin, also by henry stating that there will be an english victory empowers his followers with a sense of patriotism and pride in there king and country. “by god’s grace” henry use of this biblical allusion, states he believes that with the help of god he will have a battle in france “play a set” and he will win, this once again empowers his followers to believe that god is on their side and if henry believes that then so do they, also disempowering the dauphin and his emissary by stating that god has abandoned you and is on our side, the divine power will help england. henry’s pausing between statements in the speech gives his retort a very stern and reassuring tone, once again allows his nobleman and earls to feel comfort in his words, his confidence in these words shows that he will follow his words disempowering the dauphin and his emissary by showing great confidence alluding that he will certainly defeat the french in battle.
the mercy that was quick, is given by henry towards the three of his closest allies SCG (scroop, cambridge and grey) after he receives news that they have betrayed him and offered to kill henry for a price for the dauphin, henry has gathered his nobleman and earles to what they believe is to converse upon the looming battle with france. this speech empowers his loyal nobles and allies, himself and the nation of england, where as it disempowers SCG, the french and any would be traitors. SCG believe they are about to be promoted, henry asks these men what he shall do about a drunken that has dishonoured him, these men gibe their opinion that no mercy should be shown towards this man, henry’s speech opens with the clever line “The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill’d” this whity response is turning the words that SCG have just said about the drunken, and henry has placed those words upon them. this quote is stating why should henry place mercy upon SCG if they haven’t given mercy to a simple drunk. this disempowers SCG as he has shamed them and turned there own words against him and has shamed them publicly, he has empowered his loyal followers by showing that he will find those who are disloyal and make the right descisions
Not going to lie...there are a lot of spelling mistakes here. But your ideas are solid. What sort of structure did you use? It's not overly apparent. Next time, either go through the speech chronologically OR choose a particular aspect (inclusive, positive and buoyant language) of Henry's speeches, explore that. Then, go onto a next one (metaphors), then the next one (allusions)...see what I mean?
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In TMTQ and WAGID, Henry the 5th bothj empowers the people around him and disempowers those who feel needs a lesson. In WAGID He uses strong emotive and powerful language to evoke feelings towards the character making himself and his followers and peers feel superior while making the people such as the French messenger and the duphain rather inferior and disempowered. Similarly, in TMTWQ, Henry completely disempowers Scrute, Cambridge and Grey mainly, but the effect that it left on the three traitors acted as a warning to any other loyal servants who plan on betraying the king
ReplyDeleteIn TMTWQ, Henry states before hand that he should show mercy towards the drunken man who abused him but Scroop, Cambridge and grey do not appreciate this level of mercy. Henry then presents the three with their letters which they then ask for mercy themselves. “The mercy that was quick in us but late by your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare, for shame to talk of mercy”. Henry is stating here that before these three traitors spoke of not giving the drunk man any mercy but now they wish for it themselves. Henry’s powerful simile in “As dogs upon their masters” suggests that what was loyal to them has turned against themselves as if a dog has turn against his master. The trio are very much become disempowered as Henry uses intense imagery to supereriorise himself as well as interiorize the three. The powerful use of juxtaposition “See you my noble princes, these English monsters” presents the traitors as monsters and depersonalizing them. The juxtaposition separates them from the rest of the society and also, as he recognizes the noble princes, it ensures their loyalty and also empowering them.
Lord scroop is then dealt with individually and physically to serve the purpose of showing the other lords what he is capable of and uses aggressive language to again depersonalize him and coming onto him like a tonne of bricks. In WAGID, Henry goes down a more sophisticated path of dealing with the joke that was played on him. Henry accomplishes the idea of disempowering the duphaine and the emissary by the use of a sarcastic and mocking tone. This tone sets the scene for what the emissary is about to experience.
Henry then turns the joke towards the emissary as he stresses “we will, in France, by gods grace, play a set shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard”. This clever use of metaphorically describing the battle they will have with the French reverses the sarcasm back onto the emissary or duphaine. The religious allousion that Henry states is targeted at the lords of the castle and gives them a sense of pride so that not only is Henry empowering himself, he is also empowering those loyal to him. In TMTWQ, Henry completely disempowers the three lords by making them feel weak and standing over them as if he was their enemy where as WAGID acted as more of a warning and an act of frustration also in TMTWQ, the uncle of Henry feels obligated in commencing an epic face slap which is just the epitome of disempowerment.
I liked this - The powerful use of juxtaposition “See you my noble princes, these English monsters” presents the traitors as monsters and depersonalizing them. The juxtaposition separates them from the rest of the society and also, as he recognizes the noble princes, it ensures their loyalty and also empowering them. - it was really good. Might have needed a fraction more depth BUT still pretty good Brazzers.
DeleteAnd I really liked your PARAPHRASING - how you've incorporated your quotes... "Henry then turns the joke towards the emissary as he stresses “we will, in France, by gods grace, play a set shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard”
Well done mate - lots to be proud of.
How does Henry empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels need a lesson?
ReplyDeleteBoth “the mercy that was quick” and “We are glad the Dauphin” speeches from henry V has empower those around him while also cutting his enemy. His uses of different language such as sarcasm, imagery and juxtaposition has a dramatic affect on empower himself to be superior to those he is trying to discard.
“The mercy that was quick” is the speech made by Henry V when he had found out that his three royalist knights, Scroop, Cambridge and Grey, has been planning to kill him for the French Dauphin. As the scene introduce the “drunken man” who speak of jest in the king’s action of war. However, Henry V has given “mercy” for the drunken man, as he is drunk. Scroop, Cambridge and Grey however, disagree with this action of mercy and suggest that the man should be punished. However, after the three knights has receive the letter of “promotion” saying that “I know you are worth it”, the used of paradox is present us their action are not actually acceptable. Their immediacy asks for mercy. “The mercy that was quick in us but late, is suppressed and killed”. Henry V is seemed to be mocking the three traitors like a puppet. As “your own reason turn into your bosoms, as dogs upon their master”, the uses of power simile suggest that these knights have no shame on their words. Not even when they attempt in asking for mercy while just a second ago, said that mercy is to punish. Their words of lie has comes back to haunt them. Henry is very disappointing that his own men has trying to betray him behind his present, as “See you, my princes and my noble peers, These English monsters”. Henry introduce juxtaposition to empower his “prince” and “noble” while pity those that are enemies. The word “monsters” also is an imagery that take humanity from them.
“We are glad the Dauphin” also a speech made by Henry V that has massive impact on audience that witness how Henry empower his peer but with no sympathy, disregard his enemy. The uses of sarcasm and unpleasant but clam tone are use as he said, “We are glad the Dauphin are so pleasant with us, His pleasant an your pains we thank you for”. As he use sarcasm to represent the pain and consequence that the French is about to face. He also uses another sarcasm and metaphor to challenge the French into war as “We will, in France. By God’s grace, play a set. Shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard”, The “set” can be represent as a “round” of battle in which they both will be playing. Henry has empowered and create certainly of winning the battle to his peers as “God’s” will be on his side when in war and his “set” will be the battle that question the existence of the French king crown. Lastly, Henry has created regrets in his enemy heart as he listed the outcome that his battle will bring to France. “Shall mock mock out from their dear husbands, Mock mother from their son, Mock castle down”. The uses of imagery to let the French emissary imagine the cost that his Dauphin has made, As husband and son will be separate from their mother since after the war, they are not coming back. By juxtaposition, Henry also empowers himself while disregarding the French Dauphin and his father, allowing his peers to witness the consequence that not to mock with King Henry V.
In conclusion, Henry V speech is a powerful taunting speech that empowers himself and his comrade while disregarding and weakens his enemy confident. This is achieve through the use of powerful language technique such as metaphor, imagery, juxtaposition and different tone.
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DeleteYour English is really getting better.
I am very pleased with your analysis and, while we need to watch the correctness of your grammar, you've gone into good detail and clearly understand the speeches.
Yay.
Henry empowers those around him through his powerful language but yet undermining tone, which he displays in henry the fifth. Right from the beginning of his speech we witness Henrys Preaching tone, “you must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy” due to the sly and great betrayal pursued by his Royal nights (Scoop Cambridge and Grey). The powerful simile Henry states, “your own reasons turn into your bosoms as dogs upon their masters” suggests the beliefs of the knights to make money can briskly reform into weaknesses as they have come back to haunt them as a disloyal dog would do to his owners; “dogs upon their masters”. In contrast to this speech, we are Glad The Dauphin embarks differently. We witness Henry’s influential but strong language and tone as he seeks to make his point “When we have matched our rackets to these balls we will, in France, by God’s grace, play a set”. The strong yet clever metaphor displayed here lets the French Ambassador know what they’ve lets them in for as Henry is saying that they will match their army and in God’s name will start a war. He persists with his serious and preaching tone stating that “that all the court of France will be disturbed”, meaning this war will prove to have great effect on the country. Henry continues to emphasize his point by empowering himself through one of the most versatile line in his speech “Be like a king and show my sail of greatness”. He is stating how he will lead his country to victory, as he will “Be like a king” by proving his power through his “sail of greatness”; a metaphor portraying his leadership skills through his influential tone.
ReplyDeleteIn resemblance to the powerful influential tone shown here The Mercy that was quick displays clever yet a reflective tone as he is ashamed of his three nights; the bitter betrayal. We witness the clever juxtaposition used, which reads, “See you, my princes and my noble peers, These English monsters” as he used and enduring terms like “noble” and “princess” and inverts them with the spiteful monster imagery. He shows the inhumanity of Scoop, Cambridge and Grey by disempowering them and empowering himself. We go on to see Henry’s anger and emotions as his true thoughts are revealed as he believes that “this man Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired, And sworn unto the practices of France”. His aggressive hyperbole suggests that the deed he aspired to do what not financially beneficial for such betrayal.
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Very impressive mate.
How does Henry empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels need a lesson?
ReplyDeleteIn Shakespeare’s play ‘The Mercy that was quick’ and ‘ We are glad the Dauphin’ he uses a wide variety of language techniques to show how Henry empowers the people around him and how some of his men such as Scroop, Cambridge and Grey need a lesson.
In the first scene of ‘We are glad the dauphin’ we are given the impression that the French Dauphin is beginning to think that he is ‘being mocked’ by the French Ambassador when he is sent the tennis balls. The French Ambassadors use of sarcasm shows how angry he is with the Dauphin “we are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us” and also gives us the sense that he is going to over react when it comes to retaliating to this message in wanting to go to war by turning the tennis balls into cannon balls. We can see how he has used inclusive language in this quote because he has included everyone when explain that ‘We’ will go to war with them instead of just counting for himself.
The dauphin uses a metaphor of the playing a set of tennis with the French explaining the war and explains that he is going to turn the tennis balls into cannon balls and send them back ‘We will, in France, by God’s grace, play a set Shall strike his fathers crown into the hazard’.
He again uses a sarcastic tone when he is explaining that ‘his present and your pains we thank you for’ again gets him to realize that he is being mocked by the French Ambassador. When he realizes he is being mocked he decides he will turn the joke back onto the French by mocking them ‘Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down’, This quote explains how the French’s sarcastic tone has lead to a major retaliation in being the war.
The speech ‘The Mercy that was quick’ is quite similar to ‘We are glad the Dauphin’ in that the way the Dauphin mistreats and punishes people for their actions. A metaphor is used at the beginning of the poem to show how Scroop, Cambridge and Grey turn upon king Henry ‘For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.’ This metaphor of the dogs shows that dogs never turn on their masters and is explaining how Scroop, Cambridge and Grey turn on Henry.
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ReplyDeleteSee how you've written this - We can see how he has used inclusive language in this quote because he has included everyone when explain that ‘We’ will go to war with them instead of just counting for himself. -
You needed to go into more detail. What does this do for the men around him? Be more specific.
Another example is when you've written - This metaphor of the dogs shows that dogs never turn on their masters and is explaining how Scroop, Cambridge and Grey turn on Henry.
See how it isn't really enough? You could have another 1-2 sentences on this to detail how the empowerment is being manipulated by Henry (and thus Shakespeare).
Through the speech ‘we are Glad the Dauphin’ and ‘The Mercy that was quick’ shows the empowerment and disempowerment. Empowerment and Disempowerment was shown within the speech of ‘We are Glad The Dauphin’ as King Henry lowers the French ambassador and makes his colleagues and noble higher, and makes them rise to this challenge of war and glory. The ‘mercy that was quick’ shows power, of how quickly Henry ability to disempower his nobles. Through this speech he contrasts a scenario to what happen and let his noble judge. The speech ‘We are Glad The Dauphin’ and The Mercy That was quick ‘has many difference and similarities as one was empowering while the other was disempowering.
ReplyDeleteWhile Henry disempowers the French ambassador in the speech we are “Glad the Dauphin” , its is arguably one of henry most clever metaphor , that likens the French “friend” that he belongs “in hell”. “His present and your pains we thank you for” as he will have” a match our racket to these balls”. This shows the emotion that the Henry is not so easily to be mocked “out of there dear husbands”. It also shows henry protruding into an assault as he sets his baseline with a metaphorical quote of war as “they play a set”. The set that they are about to play is a war that “I will dazzle all the eyes of France” . Since the France was so stubborn (no offence) that this was a great offence to them and their country. This is the base of the quote as hennery takes his stance to disempower the French ambassador and empowers his nobles by also taking them with their glorious journey from “turning tennis balls into cannon balls”.
“The mercy that was quick “shows the blow that Henry takes on his nobles as an example who “wonders to want on treason and on murder”. As there reason turn “into your bosoms” as he says it to “the creature”. The use of ungrateful, savage, and inhumane description shows henry at his very upmost anger and fury .The use of animal imagery disempowers the traitors as referred as animals in that time were not treated fairly other than today.. The rhetorical question also suggestion there indeed nothing left to say to one of his most trust advisor .This description was from the “bottom of my soul”. Henry uses cleverly the words of “truth” as to emphasise the traitor damage by contrasting “black and white” as it shows the loyalty, shown through his “poignant smile”, but such treachery shall not be tolerated. This shows Henries treachery of disempowering people from “noble peers” to “inhuman creatures”.
Effective techniques are created to emphasise the disempowerment and empowerment of his men or the French, but most effectively was the use of someone’s argument and backfiring it back to the victims to disempower or empower people. This is shown when their “own reason turn into your bosoms as dog upon his master”. This enticing simile has cleverly tricked the “inhuman creature” to contradict their own statement, as before this they were talking if they should give mercy to a traitor. As their own fate was decided by their own lies, by coming back and biting them like “dogs upon their master” .Henry imagery stripped them of his power and left them like beggars on the street.
Another use of backfire, is in the speech “we are glad the dauphin”. The clever use of Dauphin gesture backfire him when” we will, in France, by God’s Grace Play a set shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard”. In this quote henry uses sporting metaphor that reverse the sarcasm back onto the French ambassador. The gods shall be with him as this was one religious allusion that with potent and allows Henry lord to present pride in the use of inclusive language as well. Through the supporting of a great cause as the “gods “with him .
Perpetual to the context of the two speeches that Henry presents to disempower and empower people that are with or not with him. Many through inclusive language or harsh content that henry presents. Through this we may be able to recognise the henry speech has empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels needs a lesson.
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ReplyDeleteHow does Henry empower those around him while also cutting those who he feels need a lesson?
In your answer, refer to both 'We Are Glad The Dauphin' and 'The Mercy That Was Quick'.
He cuts down the people he dislikes, whilst empowering the people around him, the motherland and himself.
He does this in "We Are Glad The Dauphin" through the use of similes, Sporting Metaphors, Religions Allusions and metaphors.
"We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set," Alluding the the fact that the Dauphin has presented him with balls, Harry will turn those balls into cannon balls and ,"Strike his father's crown into the hazard."
"Hath turned his balls to gun-stones"......"For many a thousand widows shall this his mock, mock out of their dear husbands; mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down." King Henry illustrates the impending doom of the Dauphin, and that the jest, while well wrought, will be badly accepted, and, in turn, bowl over castles, men and their children.
"That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn." This phrase tells the audience that, because of the Dauphins jest, King Henry has unleashed his wrath on the soldiers of France. "There be no wrath, like that of Harry."
"But this lies all within the will of God, to whomI do appeal; and in whose name." This Religious allusion shows the ambassador that God is on the side of England, disempowering the French Dauphin, and in turn, empowering his court.
"His jest shall savour but a shallow wit." This quote by Harry tells the ambassador that, although the Dauphin has played his card, King Henry's retribution will be ten-fold the jest, which is the total domination of Aquitaine.
"When thousands weep more than did laugh at it." He foretells that the war will conclude with the death of many French troops.
The tone seems to start off as calm and cool, climaxing towards the middle, and slowing down towards the end.
End of Part 1
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"The mercy that was quick in us but late,
By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:
You must not dare, FOR SHAME, to talk of mercy;
For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
As dogs upon their masters, worrying you."
This paragraph tells us of the Mercy that was killed and subsided by Cambridge, Scroop and Grey.
In the day, shame was as important as respect, shame being much more important back then. As King Henry says,
'You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy,' He implies that it would be better to die than to ask for mercy, and to shame.
"As dogs upon their masters, worrying you." This quote is like a poem by William Butler Yeats,
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer".
The dogs turn upon their master, as though the last, most unlikely thing to happen, has happened, or in this case, Scroop, Cambridge and Grey, turning on their master, Henry.
"See you, my princes, and my noble peers, These English monsters!" Henry empowers his court whilst disempowering the traitors through the use of inclusing language, which somehow, also includes all of England, as "These English...".
"This man hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired, and sworn unto the practises of France." Henry makes the conspiracy reward seem insignificantly small, compared to the potential death of the King of England.
"To kill us here in Hampton", signifying that the death of Henry would definitely signify the loss of England in the Battle of Agincourt.
"That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold" Henry relates the actions of Scroop as "Turning Harry into gold", converting the King into golden coins.
"Tis so strange that, though the truth of it stands off as gross as black and white, my eye will scarcely see it." King Henry, although the treachery is shown in plain sight, will not believe that his best friend has betrayed him.
"Hath got the voice in hell for excellence." This quote suggest that this betrayal has most likely brought from the High-rankings of hell. This is also a juxtaposition of hell and excellence.
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