[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-165327-en":3,"doc-seo-165327-105":30,"detail-sidebar-cat-1-en-105":91},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":11,"category_id":12,"category_name":13,"doc_title":14,"doc_description":15,"doc_content":16,"file_id":17,"file_url":18,"file_type":19,"file_size":20,"view_count":4,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":11,"is_downloadable":11,"audit_status":11,"page_count":21,"language":22,"language_code":23,"site_id":24,"html_lang":23,"table_of_contents":25,"faqs":26,"seo_title":27,"seo_description":15,"update_tm":28,"read_time":29},165327,1099523882367,"Jordan Avery","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_9964176cb1d06d4a9deccf72a44ae3dc",1,11,"Presentations","Prince Hal the Machiavel - How-To Succeed in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I","The essay examines how Machiavellian traits influence success and failure in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I through key figures including Prince Hal, Hotspur, King Henry IV, and Falstaff. It frames the play using Marxist theory and critical concepts of power, arguing that social institutions shape ideology and constrain individual agency. By tracing Marxist and Foucauldian models—sovereign power, bio-power, and interpellation—the work explains how hegemony promotes class values that the working class internalizes, affecting character outcomes.","Student Name\nClass\nProfessor\nDate\nPrince Hal the Machiavel:\nHow-To Succeed in Shakespeare’s Henry IV part I\n“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”\n-Niccolo Machiavelli\nThe prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta explored the thoughts of a Machiavellian archetype who stated, “I count religion but as a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance” (Marlowe, 10). Those lines, which discard the values of society, resonate with what the psychology and ideology of a Machiavel figure would exhibit. The ability to break away from society’s norms and ideals, such as religion, friendship, honor, or virtue opened gates to surviving and succeeding that were closed to those who held on to those values set up by society. I plan to examine Shakespeare’s The History of Henry IV part I, looking at the characters of Prince Hal, Hotspur, King Henry IV, and Falstaff in an attempt to demonstrate how Machiavellian qualities brought about the success of some characters, while those who dealt as “men” (Machiavelli, 127) and took hold of virtues or laws defined and enforced by their society, eventually failed to accomplish their goals. Since I plan to delve into societal norms and class struggles and then examine the ability of individuals such as Prince Hal to exploit those prescribed ideals to their benefit, I will open by analyzing Marxist theory and how it will be relevant in providing a framework and prospective for the play covered in this discourse.\nUnderstanding the Relationship between Power and Government\nThe distribution of power and how it is used was a critical concept in developing Marxist theory. The idea of the bourgeoisie suppressing the proletariat by an established hegemony ran by a small percentage of upper-class aristocrats controlling and exploiting the lower-class was filled with the language of power and how it was used; it was the DNA that gave life to Marxist literary analysis and politics, and it is a very real part of actual society. Michael Foucault broke down the use of power into different stages, that of sovereign power and bio-power. In examining sovereign power, Foucault stated that the power of a sovereign was that of death or life. In other words, the sovereign’s right in controlling an individual was limited to exterminating that individual or allowing him or her to continue to live. This was a highly limited source of power, given that the individual maintained freedom over almost all areas of life. In sovereign power there was much left outside the control of the government: birth-rate, land space, mortality rate, and normalized knowledge were outside the governments control (Foucault, 244). This apparent freedom of the individual was further argued by Thomas Hobbes, who stated, “For if wee take Liberty in the proper sense, for corporall Liberty; that is to say, freedome from chains, and prison, it were very absurd for men to clamor as they doe, for the Liberty they so manifestly enjoy” (Taylor, 42). There is, however, an inherent issue with sovereign power and Hobbes argument and definition of liberty. Foucault himself later looked at the idea of liberty and determined that freedom must be looked at as a way to “understand how we have been molded in ways that certain things please us rather than others” (Taylor, 79). Foucault called this a change from sovereign power, which can only enforce death on a subject, to bio-power, which was “a matter of taking control of life and the biological processes of man-as-species and of ensuring that they are not disciplined, but regularized” (Foucault, 246-247). Bio-power was essentially the government extending its power beyond that of death or let live, and extending its reaches to include control over every individual by manifesting its intentions and ideals in the fields of medicine, education, judicial systems, and institutions of entertainment. 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