Henry V honestly believes that he is an honorable man who is fighting as a necessity not for pleasure. He explains to the soldiers that “the king” is similar to him; he is only human and goes through the same fears and everyone else. “…I think the king is but a man, as I

am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions…and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. Therefore when he sees reaso

ne'er the wiser.” It seems as though they feel like the king starts the war and sends his soldiers to finish it, never taking into consideration, the destruction of it all. The troops feel used and taken advantage of. “But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left…Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection.” The soldiers and the King are obviously on different planes and aren’t seeing eye to eye. They want to fight for a just cause under a leader who has compassion for them and understands their struggles; not for a king who eludes the finger of blame. “War is his beadle, war is vengeance; so that here men are punished for before-breach of the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where they feared the death, they have borne life away; and where they would be safe, they perish: then if they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of their

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