Bravery In Shakespeare's Henry The IV

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All throughout history men and women have illustrated the many different ways a person can show the scale of their valour/bravery, but it can come in many different ways. Some simply have used words to show how brave they can be but others have used more of a military example, but in “ Henry the IV” by William Shakespeare many of the characters have shown bravery and valor.
Falstaff is one of the characters that shows a certain way of bravery and valor, he is portrayed as man that does not know the sense of “honor” and “valor” as he appears to be an uneducated man,but in some instances he shows valor of a true man, for example when he says “Well, ’tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How

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