... leadership - the qualities seen as essential in a King in violent times. The play also shows the horror and brutality of war and its destructive effect on civilian life, there is conflict between what the King does as a military leader and his instinctive human feelings, highlighting the difference between the opinions of benevolence or him being a scheming politician. The decisions he makes ... of a man taking an army to a foreign land that has no real concerns to his own situation, much like American involvement in Vietnam and some peoples view of the Falkland conflict. So, possibly t...

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