This paper discusses King Henry IV. King Henry IV and the Crown Prince, Hal or Prince Henry, are different personalities, as the play shows at the outset. The King is stately, disciplined and apprehensive about the situation in the kingdom. The Prince, on the other hand, has been wasting his time will vagrants and profligates at the Tavern and seemingly uncaring about the conditions of the kingdom and how his father and England feel about his behavior. But their separate dialogues - Hal's soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 2 and the King's outpouring on his son in Act 3 Scene 2 - reveal that they are alike. in at least the following matters : Both have a deep drive or inclination towards might and adulation.