Part one of term paper
Since is part of the tetralogy that began with Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, this play shares many of the same characters as well as carries over many of the plot lines. One of the first public acts of the young King Henry is to carry out his father's advice to him which is to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels" and so quiet rebellion at hom ...

Part two of term paper
... King resolves, therefore, "by God's help … to bend(France to (his) awe or break it all to pieces." His purpose is strengthened by the arrival of the French ambassadors who bring a reply from the Dauphin to Henry's demand for "certain dukedoms (in France) in the right of his great predecessor," King Edward the third", an insolent message that he "cannot revel into dukedoms there." In place of these territories, he receives an insulting gift of tennis balls. The angry King retorts that he will tu ...