arundels:stripedroseandsketchpads:Inktober Day 10: Gigantic“Thy due from me/ Is tears and many sorro

arundels:stripedroseandsketchpads:Inktober Day 10: Gigantic“Thy due from me/ Is tears and many sorrows of the blood / Which nature, love and filial tenderness / Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously” —"Henry IV Part 2" 4.5 Prince Hal trying to live up to his father’s legacy.#oh no#the henriad#arundels#i demand fellow-suffering#fanart#pen and ink#shakespeare#henry iv part ii#henry iv#but also#he’s not trying to live up to his father’s legacy?#but rather to REDEEM it#for his father and for himself#note that he says nothing about his duty to kingship because it was his father’s#no#that is SomETHING ELSE ENTIRELY#but sorrows of the blood#that’s just… that’s just nature love and filial tenderness#my sweet and terrible prince#i have a lot of feelings#shakespeepsI’m HERE. The first thing that comes to mind is Henry IV saying “to thee [the crown] shall descend with bitter quiet” (2H4 4.5) because his father loves him so much and yet is forced to pass on this burden. The best he can hope for his son is that the crown will rest in bitter quiet; that young Henry will make it through alright. Meanwhile Henry V knows he has to accomplish so much more than this, because it’s not in his nature to subsist and cobble together a peace, but oh, he wishes he could have a few moments to grieve. And he can’t, because that’s how the succession works; that’s how taking up the mantle and the stature of kingship works. Yes, feelings! Bitter quiet! And the absence of time to grieve (punches me in the heart every time.) One of the things I really like about this artwork is how clear that impossible mismatch is – that despite the affectionate, anguished words from Hal, he (and we) see Henry IV as a faceless shadow, his bulk defined by throne and crown, orb and sword of violence. @arundels reading of the image as Hal stepping into the body of the king as into kingship is really cool too. Apropos, I wanted to respond to @stripedroseandsketchpads‘ words: I’m really sorry my caption wasn’t correct, I only just started to get into the histories and don’t have any expertise for commentary. I only meant that I got a sense (maybe I’m wrong) that Hal isn’t initially behaving in a very kingly way and there’s an idea that he needs to do something better (though the quote is maybe not the best one I could’ve picked since its later on in the play and maybe he’s proved himself enough by then??) I’m not sure.Firstly, you’re absolutely right that Hal isn’t behaving in a kingly way and he does need to change. We as the audience know it, and he knows it, and his father knows it, and will he??? Suspense. Anyway, I’m really sorry if my textual criticism/feelings rant seemed like a criticism of you for being Wrong About Shakespeare On The Internet or something. One of the great things about reading Shakespeare, imo, is being able to debate characterizations and significance (something that @arundels and I have a penchant for… maybe you guessed as much?) I do think the legacy question holds an important distinction because of who Hal is and who he will become (not to spoil Henry V for you.) But it was not my intention to accuse you… and I put it in the tags mostly so that people seeing it on my blog would see “Ooh, cool art!” and not “Hmm, textual criticism.” Anyway: thanks for the cool art, sorry if I came across as a jerk.  -- source link

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