Henry VI Part 2 Themes

All rise, because the court is now in session. Seriously, reading Henry VI, Part 2 is like reading one big courtroom drama: characters get tried and judged left and right, and everyone is concerned...

Oh, boy: we've got kings, queens, nobles, and commoners all thrown together on one stage, and everybody wants a bigger piece of the pie than they already have. Did someone say class issues?Class co...

Let's face it: in Henry VI, Part 2, the big King H doesn't really care about too many things. When his country needs a regent in France, he openly admits he's out of his league. When Margaret and S...

Are you loyal to a king? To a country? To your relatives? To the law? To justice? To God? One of the basic issues Henry VI, Part 2 investigates is how you go about determining who or what deserves...

Where would the characters in Henry VI, Part 2 be without gender stereotypes to make their insults really sting? Seriously: did you notice that people are always throwing around comments about this...

Maybe we should have called it over-ambition, because some of the characters in Henry VI, Part 2 are off the charts. Seriously, when multiple innocent heads start rolling just so that certain chara...

Let's face it: there wouldn't be much to Henry VI, Part 2 if Henry were a strong king like his father or grandfather. What do we get here? Well, we get a guy who doesn't want to fight (but doesn't...

Pants are on fire all over the place in Henry VI, Part 2. People lie so much in this play that it starts to seem like everything anybody ever says is just some form of deception.There's the type of...