al, should be one of "riot and dishonour". He even goes as far as to say that he would like to discover "that some night-tripping fairy" had at one time exchanged Northumberland's boy for his.
             The next scene, Act 1, Scene 2, introduces us to the character of Hal. The scene is in sharp contrast to the one that precedes it. Scene 1's tone was very serious, formal and political. Scene 2 is in a very informal setting. The subject of conversation is not politics but of drinking, robbing and women. The prince is among this drunken crowd. Even the language used in this scene is different from the previous one. Scene 1, a formal court setting, is delivered in verse while Scene 2 is delivered in prose. Hal jokes with Sir John Falstaff. His language is quite brash and his humour his crude. While his father talks of leading a crusade to the Holy Land, Hal speaks of things such as "old sack", "capons", "tongues of bawds", "signs of leaping-houses" and a "fair hot wench". Shakespeare includes many puns in the conversation between Hal and Falstaff. Falstaff appears to be a much better pundit than Hal is. Falstaff uses better puns in his comebacks such as "squires of the night's body" and Hal is left trying to keep up with him. This shows that Hal is one to try to keep up with the crowd. He would have had a very different upbringing to most young men his age and is perhaps craving acceptance and wishing to be like others his age. We also see this desire to be accepted manifest itself when he agrees to go along with the planned robbery. However he does not take place in the actual robbery, instead he opts to rob Falstaff et al, in jest, after the robbery has taken place. In this way Hal can enjoy all the fun of the robbery without any chance of him getting caught and further tarnishing his princely title, perhaps showing us that he does have some self-resp...