...William Shakespeare’s Henry V is based on the exploration of leadership. Although the film was difficult to follow at times, certain diction and actions of the characters made the film easier to follow. The diction and actions of King Henry V definitely showcased his abilities as a leader. Henry V focuses on leadership development by concentrating on succession, conflict and redemption. In the film, Henry V shows growth through stature and ability all while developing skills and credibility in the eyes of his followers. Because of this growth, Henry V comes to epitomize transformational leadership through his use of key qualities like vision and values, energy and a teachable point of view. It is through his use of vision and values, energy and a teachable point of view that his followers witness not only his growth as a leader, but also his attention to England’s well-being, unifying his realm and achieving organizational goals. When young King Henry V assumed the throne of his father, Henry IV, he was adamant on gaining the respect of the English people and the court. In order to gain this respect, Henry V had to live down his wild adolescent past in which he befriended drunkards and thieves and showed disrespect to the throne. As shown in the film, Henry V was willing to do whatever was necessary to disassociate himself with his adolescent past. If this meant rejecting his former drunkard and thieve friends, then Henry would do it. Even Henry, himself, killing one...
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...well known dynasty is the House of Tudor. Henry VII became king in 1485 and took Elizabeth of York as his wife.They had four children Prince Arthur of Wales, Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII, and Mary Tudor. Henry VIII was born June 28, 1491 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich. Being the second born son Henry was raised and educated to take a secular role in life, most likely as the Archbishop of Canterbury. His grandmother Margaret Beaufort supervised his early childhood education. Henry was reported to excel at book learning as well as athletics required by those apart of the aristocratic society. But even as well educated, handsome, and athletic as Henry was his father continued to favor the elder Prince Arthur. When Henry had reach the age of 10 he took part in his brothers arranged wedding to the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. His job was to escort the bride; the bride was Catherine of Aragon who was later to be Henry VIII first wife. Shortly after the marriage, Arthur died on April 2, 1502 from night-sweats. This left Henry the rightful heir to the English throne right before his 11th birthday. Fourteen months after Arthur’s death, Catherine of Aragon was betrothal to Henry VIII, and then he was too young to marry. As Henry VIII grew up his father became less willing to have an alliance with the Spanish and he repudiated the betrothal of Henry and Catherine. After seven years his father dies and Henry VIII successes to the throne. He becomes...
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...In the historical play Henry V, by William Shakespeare, we are introduced to the story of a young and mysterious King Henry V of England, and his quest to conquer France under the reign of Charles VI of France. According to the History article (“Battle of Agincourt”), it details Henry’s life leading up to and following the Battle of Agincourt in the year 1415. From the very beginning, the Chorus portrays Henry as a glorious King who is about to engage in an epic and glorifying battle with the French. However, the Chorus then reveals that the play will not be as heroic and godly as initially envisioned. This is because there is a shortage in the resources necessary to depict this great spectacle, and it is instead the audience’s responsibility...
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...Out of these marriages Henry’s wives conceived two daughters and one son. King Edward VI, Queen Mary I, and Queen Elizabeth I were Henry’s only children. Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn were beheaded and were also first cousins. Some of Henry's wives worked in one of his other wives' service. This service would usually be ladies in waiting. Anne Boleyn worked in Catherine of Aragon's service. Jane Seymour worked in Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn’s service. Catherine Howard worked in Anne of Cleves's service. King Henry VIII was a very powerful person and used this to his advantage. He imprisoned or executed many of the great nobles of England whenever he wanted. “Henry VIII sent more men and women to their deaths than any other monarch.”...
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...suit, we are offered a question: “Who needs a super hero?” Could this be a rhetorical question, disregarding the need for a super hero of sorts, or is it a genuine offer? Just as one can view this visual in two ways, one negative and one positive. So too Henry can be viewed in both a negative and positive light. On the one hand Henry can be seen as the "nimble-footed madcap," of his youth. His days spent in unsavoury places, interested in only the primal urges of drink, war, and women. However, on the other hand, one can praise how he left “his wildness” behind to become a true “Christian king”. He rid himself of “his companies... unlettered, rude and shallow,” and is now indeed a king, “full of grace and fair regard.” King Henry can be viewed as a power-hungry man, who will do anything to get to the top, even kill his friends. Alternatively one can see from how he punishes his traitors – Scroop, Grey and Cambridge, as a positive. It demonstrates how far Henry has come from his days spent in unsavoury places; he understands that sometimes, in order for a king to rule wisely, he must do so ruthlessly. Henry was faced with the decision of honouring his friends of the past or his rule of the future. It is easy to regard Henry as a crude tactician, and expedient ruler. A man who has the characteristics of a true Machiavellian leader and does not care about the safety of his citizens, but rather about how he can take the throne from the Dauphine. Then one can say that he is a politician...
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...banning a book and facing horrific charges. Although the king himself was a very promiscuous man, he was never questioned of it simply because he was the king; strangely enough it was his promiscuous actions have made him a well known ruler of the 1500’s. Henry Tudor, born in Greenwich London on June 28 1491. Of course being a royal, he was homeschooled by the finest tutors. When he was young he was athletic and highly intelligent. An observer described said he...
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...King Henry VIII was born in Greenwich, London, England on June 28, 1491 to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. He was the third of seven children, and was one of three siblings that survived into adulthood. Though we know very little of Henry’s life before his older brother’s death, we expect that he would have been on the path of a royal second born son. The path of the church. Along with Henry’s extensive knowledge of the Church and Theology, he also has a passion for music, languages, poetry and sports. Henry’s older brother, Arthur, however, was destined to be king and was married to Catherine of Aragon in November of 1501, in an alliance with Spain. A four months later, Arthur fell ill, and died, leaving a ten year old Henry to assume his...
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...As his father died, Henry VIII succeeded the throne as King of England, & when he inherited the throne, he declared that he would marry his first wife Catherine. “Within five months of becoming King […] Henry VIII married Catherine, daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile” (Bagley, 16). Right after the coronation, the first thing he had to do was to arrest two corrupt ministers that worked for his father’s administration, which were, Sir Richard Empson & Edmund Dudley, were later for treason & were executed in 1510. Execution would be King Henry VII’s first tactics to deal with officials who were on his way & this was the last of it that he have done through the years the had ruled England. Since those ministers supposedly extorted...
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...Erika Betancourt Professor Behler April 26th 2016 Researched Items King Henry VIII: King Henry VIII was the son on King Henry VII. He is very well known for his 9 wives. He married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon in 1509 and had his first son in 1511 whom died 2 months later. Catherine continued to have miscarriages and the children that they did have would die shortly after birth. Henry became frustrated and even though he was still married to Catherine he had two mistresses: Mary Boleyn and Elizabeth Blount. After being married for 17 years, Henry fell in love with Mary Boleyn and solicited an annulment from the Pope since him and Catherine were married through the church. Catherine died alone in 1536. King Henry VIII is significant to history because he separated church and the government. During this time period, Kings were rulers of everything including religion and when the Pope refused to annul king Henry’s marriage with Catherine, King Henry took matter into his own hands and found someone else to annul his marriage. (Tudor) Lucrezia Borgia: Born during Italy’s Renaissance period, when artists and architects emerged to world appreciation. Her father was Pope Alexander VI and a mistress named Vannozza Cattanei. Lucrezia was married at least 2 times, if not 3. At age 11, her father cancelled her marriage...
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...Some may say King Henry VIII was the first King to go against the church to get what he wanted. It was not allowed to divorce in those days, however Henry was able to marry, divorce and even kill a few of his wives during his reign. Disparate for a male heir, Henry did everything in his power to produce a male child weather it was within or outside his marriages. Is it safe to say that Henry may have paved the way for such dysfunction in modern lives when it comes to family and marriage? What if his wife Catherine gave him a healthy son? Would marriage and the church be different today? Resentment, failure to communicate and disconnect are only a few reasons why some marriages end. Failure to have a male child was Queen Catherine’s biggest...
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...Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich, England on September 7, 1533. She was the daughter of then King Henry XIII and Anne Boleyn, King Henry’s second wife. At two years old, Elizabeth’s mother, Anne, was killed, leaving her with her father, older half-sister Mary, and younger half-brother Edward. Like any other royal child, Elizabeth had a great upbringing. While she did receive some tutoring, she was outstanding in music and languages. In 1547 Anne’s father, King Henry XIII, passed away. Upon King Henry XIII’s death, Edward succeeded the throne. Henry’s death left Elizabeth in the hands of his wife, her stepmother Catherine Parr. Parr later remarried to Thomas Seymour. After mounting tensions with Seymour, Elizabeth left their home and...
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...“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality” (Desmond Tutu). Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. were two men who were very passionate in what they believed in. Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, and historian. He is well-known for his essay “Civil Disobedience”, where he expresses the need for more people to be individuals and think and act on what they believe in. Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist in the civil rights movement. King was known for his writing, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” where he, similar...
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...will repeat itself. From the battle fields of England and France, all the way to Ancient Rome, leaders of the state will take any action necessary to protect the state, other than place themselves in harm’s way, as without them, no state exists. King Henry IV fascinated Shakespeare; the author tells the man’s achievements over the course of two plays. In 1 Henry IV, the monarch faces rebellion from both Scottish...
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...After building that rapport, Henry uses an either/or fallacy to send his point home early on. He says, “For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery…” By saying this, Henry knew that he could get the gentlemen of the Convention thinking. To them, slaves were less than human, they were like livestock. These were white, male, landowners he was speaking to, and they weren’t going to be treated as slaves by any king or government, much less one who lived across the ocean. So, after Henry gets the Convention thinking about his point, he moves on to biblical allusion as a form of argument development. On top of being white, male, landowners, these were good Christian men. Henry states that he “...should consider [himself] guilty of treason against [his] country, and of an act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven....” An act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven would be an act of disloyalty towards God, and in their time that was an unspeakable offense. None of these men would ever even consider being willingly disloyal to God. On top of that, Henry asks that the Convention “Suffer not [themselves] to be betrayed by a kiss.” Nearly everyone has heard the name and story of Judas, who was Christ’s biggest betrayer. This particular line makes...
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...accurate to say that one of the reasons that Henry V invaded France in 1415 was to strengthen his position as King of England, but it is not the only reason nor is it necessarily the main reason; France’s domestic situation, and Scotland’s lack of threats were also reasons why England invaded France at that time. One of the main reasons why Henry V invaded France was indeed that he wanted to strengthen his position as the King of England; Henry had inherited the throne from his father, Henry IV, who had had many troubles during his reign regarding his line to the throne: many thought that Henry IV had a weak claim to the Crown, and the line to the throne was weakened by the fact that he had usurped the role from Richard II and had not been Richard’s heir. Henry V wanted to strengthen his claim to the throne and secure his position as King of England by invading France in 1415; invading France would have shown that Henry was a traditional King and intended to win his support and honour on the battle field like many of the Medieval Kings before him, showing that he could be a strong and worthy King, which also counteracted his father’s abilities in later life: Henry IV had become ill during the later years of his life and could not campaign to places like Wales and Scotland in person, meaning that he had lost some support over the years, though his son, the future Henry V, had taken over the roles of business and government. Henry would have also invaded France in 1415 to establish...
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