What has struck me the most about Henry V is how Henry’s words, decisions, and actions are so morally complicated or ambiguous. I think that Shakespeare generally portrays Henry in a favorable light, but that does not prevent him from raising questions about some of Henry’s decisions, or about the evil his father committed to assume English throne. It was interesting to see how much Henry had matured since Henry IV, to the point that the young man hanging out with the rowdy crowd in the tavern was essentially gone, replaced by a man who is not afraid to shed blood. Indeed, Henry completely cuts himself off from his old life by pushing Falstaff away for the rest of Falstaff’s life, and by having his old friend Bardolph hanged.