The Legitimacy of Rule and Kingship in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2

By setting the fountain of hydrogen IV, amid political imbalance and fierce rebellion, questions of kingship and the legitimacy of that military group ar immediately hurtle to the forefront of audience cognizance; yet, it is these tensions which drive the plot. The bleak porta lines spoken by henry IV: so move as we ar, so queasy with cargon  ar perceivable when considering that the nation he rules oer is bratened on both borders and that the very nobles who brought him to power ar now attempting to unseat him. The threat of the Scottish is made both the more ominous since they are aided by the northern nobles, who assisted Henry when he usurped Richard II, as they have already proved their efficiency when it comes to removing a crowned monarch. In humanitarian there is the threat from the Welsh, which is step up by the marriage of Edmund Mortimer (a intent Englishman) to the daughter of the Welsh leader, trouble since Mortimer arguably has a damp claim to the throne than the Kings own. In the uncertain world which we are presented with in the opening word pictures of 1 Henry IV we are liable to ask we are likely to question the legitimacy of the monarch in congress to the volatility of the country and the consequences of rebelling against a ruler. \nOne obvious report for the current troubles plaguing Henry is that he is not the rightful king, since he deposed his cousin Richard II, making his master unlawful. D S Kastan1 claims; The literal source of instability rests in the manner in which Henry has become king  and it is incontrovertible that the memory of Richard II haunts these plays. In Act 1 scene 3 Hotspur even unfavorably compares Henry with his predecessor: Richard, that kind lovely rose / And appoint this spinal column, this canker, Bolingbroke (I.iii.174-5). There is an almost misguide quality to the image of a rose and a thorn and definitely a sense impression of hierarchy; that one is bonnie and the oth er ugly and sharp. Perhaps...