What Are King George Vl Qualities

One of the film’s characters that I will be talking more in depth about is the Duke of York, also known as King George Vl. This character in the film impressed me because although at times he wanted to give up on his speech therapy he kept pushing on. In the end of the film he gave an outstanding speech. I was very impressed because he made so much progress from his first speech, you never would have known that he had a stammer if you did not hear him speak prior to that speech he gave announcing the war on Germany and Adolf Hitler. King George Vl had many good qualities such as being a genuinely good, caring person. He cared very much about his family, he wanted to have that personal connection with his daughters and have a separate life aside …show more content…
King George Vl had anger management problems which is a result from his surroundings throughout his life and how he was brought up as a child. I believe that he would not have this bad characteristic if he would not have been harshly bullied as he was growing up. In the film, Lionel Logue bets King George Vl that he can read perfectly fine right there, right now. He hands King George Vl a book to read out of, at first he refuses and does not want to try. King George Vl stammers very badly causing him to get angry, he wanted to give up. Although the first time King George Vl refused to read out of the book, he did end up trying again. This time Lionel Logue had King George Vl put headphones on with classical music playing loudly, he could not hear what he was saying. As King George Vl read out of the book Lionel Logue was recording him speaking. Immediately after King George Vl finished reading he got angry, he was insistent that he was stammering, so he refused to listen to the recording. Later on King George Vl did listen to the recording. This recording revealed that he did not stammer while he was reading aloud as he listened to