William Shakespeares Henry V begins with the newly appointed king of England Henry V who has grown an insatiable hunger to expand his power onto the regions of France War steadily arises between England and France as Henry seeks to claim the throne of France away from its king Charles King Henry takes only a quarter of his troops to France whilst leaving the remainder of his army in England to ward of any possible threats from Scotland For Henry V one can easily hold strong beliefs that environ
The first section of The Waste Land takes its title from a line in the Anglican burial service It is made up of four vignettes each seemingly from the perspective of a different speaker The first is an autobiographical snippet from the childhood of an aristocratic woman in which she recalls sledding and claims that she is German not Russian this would be important if the woman is meant to be a member of the recently defeated Austrian imperial family The woman mixes a meditation on the seasons w