King Henry's Inability To Sleep

Born the second son of a royal family, Henry Tudor lived a very interesting life. His future was intended to be the head of the Roman Catholic Church and that fate ended with the death of his brother, Prince Arthur. Henry’s majestic life was full of sports, women, and faith. The young King acceded his father to the throne, married six women, and began the English Reformation when he broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and created his own religion.

Macbeth’s conscience is further tormented after he kills Duncan. He begins to get paranoid and hallucinates, hearing voices saying, “Sleep, Sleep no more! For Macbeth has murdered sleep”.

First, one should focus on the language and Henry's ethos. The soldiers are burdened with the thought of a

To begin the second stanza, Henry questions sleep asking why it will visit those “in smoky cribs” but not him in the “perfum’d chambers” of his castle. With this classic struggle between classes, Henry highlights how the nobles felt entitled to more than what everyone else had. Ironically, Henry address sleep as a “dull god” in the second sentence of the stanza. Just some lines before Henry was questioning sleep as if sleep was unaware of the special treatment that Henry thought he deserved. Moreover, Henry’s mind continues to fall into chaos and change the role of sleep from a gift-giving person to a god who grants his followers tranquility. Henry tempts the “god of sleep” by offering him a place “under the canopies of costly state.” At this moment, Shakespeare parallels a scene from the bible where the devil tempts Jesus (God), but Jesus never cowered. The last sentence consisting of eight lines and conclude with a period shows the kings panic and stress as he loses control. The structure of the sentence shows how sleep “rock[s] his brains” causing a “rude imperious surge” of emotion. The kings’ mind degrades from his sleep deprivation. What once was a mind of authority becomes a mind of “clamor in the slippery clouds” of his brain. The final convoluted sentence attempts to establish structure, but loses focus until after the last comma when Shakespeare

People gain power through acts of honor, effective leaders take action and help others on the other hand some lie to attain power and use it to benefit themselves and their cores. King Henry the fourth written by Shakespeare revolutionized the way in which play are written and presented through iambic pentameter allowing the play to consistently have ten syllables per line allowing the play to run smoother. A few good men directed by Rob Reiner in 1992 presents a story of injustice as Marines are wrongly accused of murder through lies and politics. Through each character we see how politics affect some aspect of their lives, through various false accusations truths begin to emerge causing great disruption to the hierarchy.

Unlike Hal, King Henry’s role consist of three qualities that radiate kingship, the traits being composed, assertive and commanding. Despite these traits being essential to kingship, they ultimately lead to the court turning against King Henry and planning a rebellion against him. When discussing news of war and casualties in his throne room, Henry remains composed and finds the positive points in the situation rather the

Shakespeare’s use of imagery, diction, and syntax within Henry IV, Part II aids in portraying King Henry’s state of mind due to his inability to sleep. By personifying sleep within the soliloquy, a great impact is created which creates the illusion that sleep is purposely ignoring King Henry while bestowing its gift on his subjects.

Henry VIII is one of the few English monarchs recognizable even in America, for his antics are legendary on both sides of the Atlantic. He is as notorious for killing important people as he is for getting married six times and his break with Rome. Indeed, Henry's reign would make a good comic book, for he was always off on some new half-baked project, be it invading France or plotting a crusade. His whole life was marked by impulsiveness and his "OK, that was fun, what's next?" attitude. He never outgrew many childlike character traits, at times stubborn and the next moment almost a gullible pushover. This childish disposition is the key to why he

After the war, Henry remained cold to everything around him. “He sat in front of it, watching it, and that was the only time he was completely still. But it was the kind of stillness that you see in a rabbit when it freezes and before it will bolt. He was not easy. He sat in his chair gripping the armrests with all his might.” By comparing Henry to a rabbit frozen in fear, it really shows how immense his anguish is. “I looked over, and he’d bitten through his lip… So we went and sat down. There was still blood going down Henry’s chin, but he didn’t notice it and no one said anything even though every time he took a bite of his bread his blood fell onto it until he was eating his own blood mixed in with the food.” This quote uniquely shows how closed off he is emotionally. He has experienced so much pain from the war that he ignores his own suffering. It is clear that Henry had some extent of PTSD from the war. He was drowning in pain so much that he ignored his own purpose and value, so much so that he ended up taking his

He uses a powerful metaphor to slavery throughout the speech, referring to their “chains”. This creates a feeling of distaste, as slaves were the lowest members of the unofficial social caste system of colonial times. The comparison to such an undesirable position creates a strongly negative emotional reaction in the reader. Beyond that, Henry uses strong diction to get the reader riled up. Words such as “treason” and “insidious” along with his listed account of the increasingly humiliating ways they have “prostrated themselves before the throne” stirs the reader to sympathy towards their suffering at the “tyrannical hands of the ministry”. He couples this with allusions, using two to describe the kind treatment that Britain had been giving them presently. He cites the “song of the siren” and betrayal “with a kiss”, alluding to Greek mythology and the Bible,

Among the upper classes, he proved over and over again that he was not a good king. He rarely, if ever, participated in Parliament, and often did not attend sittings of the king's council. When the council sat at Westminster, Henry usually managed to be somewhere else (Storey, 35). These actions give a picture of a king who, though solicited for his opinions, did not want to get involved in the

In Act 1, Scene 1 of King Henry V, the audience is given the impression that Henry is a decisive, magisterial ruler, who considers the consequences of his actions and decisions. Our first impression of the character comes from a dialogue between Bishops Ely and Canterbury, who are discussing his unexpected rise to maturity. It is described that he was initially an irresponsible young man: "His companies unlettered, rude and shallow, / His hours filled up with riots, banquets , sports". The use of parallelism, repetition and tricolon convey this idea. But he is then described as having changed, rather suddenly, into a studious, noble man, with acumen and decisiveness: "Consideration like an angel came, / And whipped th'offending Adam out of him, / leaving his body as a paradise / T'envelop and contain celestial spirits.

‘Sleep’ uses imagery, rhyme, melancholy disillusion and elaborate language. In stanza one sleep asks the sleeper if they will give themselves to sleep fully, in the physical and non-physical state, the way children do. The sleeper effortlessly states ‘yes utterly’. This stanza is also in a soft and gentle tone the repetition of the ‘b’ sound, giving the poem and thumping feel, in the way a heartbeat would. After stanza one, stanza two continues this soft repetition and rhyming of the ‘b’ sound, Slessor uses imagery in the form of water. This is evident with the use of the word ‘estuary’ which means river mouth. This is used as water and sleep are both as necessary as each other. Slessor also uses imagery to depict the way someone would fall asleep. He

In William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ sleep is a very significant aspect of the play which is portrayed by many references to it and occurrences that result in sleep deprivation. To emphasize the importance of resting Shakespeare uses varied poetic language and sleep distortions. Sleep comes as a significant theme of the play when Macbeth, persuaded by Lady Macbeth kills King Duncan while he is asleep at their house. Consequently, Macbeth suffers from devastating nightmares and delusions which are the reasons for his constant paranoia and anxiety that lead to numerous murders.

Henry V is a wise and loyal king, changing from a wild youth to a mature king. He is described to be an intelligent, thoughtful and an efficient statesman. He thinks carefully whether to invade France or not which represents his responsible character. King Henry gives a very strong speech which gave courage and confidence to his army that they could win the battle. This character describes him to be a king of great ability to fight and having good administrative skills. Throughout the play Henry’s nature is religious, merciful and compassionate.