Character Development In Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I

The Development in Prince Hal's Personality in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I Throughout the course of the play, Shakespeare shows us how does he create a character of a great conflict whose actual major fight and drawback that he needs to confront is his own desires. Shakespeare takes us with him to see how this character's battle, in this case prince Hal's, will be crucial. Mainly, in Henry IV Part I, Hal cares of nothing other than idling with the Boar's Head company drinking and sitting with a gangs of villains and highwaymen. His relationship with his father, King Henry, is enormously strained and the King is very much frustrated in his son. In his exceptionally magnificent and significant monologue, in act I scene II, Henry IV Part I, Harry, for the first time, demonstrates his trick of idling and acting awfully. Now, the only people who know Harry's act are the audience and Harry himself. He is addressing his secret plan to make himself a noble man. He thinks that suddenly transforming to a noble man will be an unusual incident which will be more interesting. However, that might be what …show more content…
That force might be a conscious or an unconscious one. That is the conflict by which we can analyze any person whether in a realistic or in fictional situation. The individuals consciously or unconsciously behave in certain ways as a normal reaction to an event or a problem (Tyson). In literary works, we will consider the events in which we can see how the character behaves, or react. Even thought, it will never be extremely accurate to measure someone's personality. Nevertheless, that will improve our ability to understand the average behavior of a person. Applying psychoanalysis approaches of Freud's psychic apparatus and social cognitive perspective will help us understand Harry's personality and how does his personality develop as the play goes