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An 8 page paper which evaluates the male protagonists of Henry V and Captain Willmore by examining how the playwrights subject each to intense scrutiny throughout the course of the works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
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protagonists were very strong men who stirred up equally strong passions not only within the other characters but also obviously within the authors themselves. Shakespeares play was an attempt
to understand how the roguish Prince Hal could transform himself into the powerful King Henry V, a serious and effective force to be reckoned with who could both evoke fear
from his enemies and command loyalty and respect from his subjects. In The Rover, Behn, the first female English playwright, satirically portrayed how society defined and dictated gender roles.
In each work, the authors calculatedly subject their title characters to intense scrutiny - through language, deeds, and perceptions of others - in order to determine who these men
really were and why they acted as they did. In the Prologue and Act I of The Life of Henry the Fifth, the stage is set for controversy, as a
chorus, which collectively serve as the authors own personal commentary on the ensuing action. The chorus specifically instructs the audience to use their imaginations: "Think, when we talk of
horses, that you see them / Printing their proud hoofs i th receiving earth; / For tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, / Carry them here and
there, jumping oer times, / Turning th accomplishment of many years / Into an hour-glass" (26-31). This suggests that Henrys mind-boggling conversion from sinner to saint may have been
little more than a figment of ones imagination. But then the first scene features the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely discussing how miraculous the changes in
Henrys character are, with Canterbury observing: "The courses of his youth promisd it not. / The breath no sooner left his fathers body / But that his wildness, mortified in
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