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The answers are very good. Here is another point: Bollingbrook's ascendancy to the thrown was not pure. For his son to simply fall into the dynastic pattern passively would be to continue the stain into a new generation. Hal goes to grass roots and there finds a surrogate father that allows him to flower and gain wisdom so that his worthiness is of his own development. He is the king that is neither of the red rose or the white, but himself alone.
Posted by Florence Amit on May 24, 1997 at 05:58:06
In Reply to "education?" posted by pudge wallace on April 25, 1997 at 06:31:10
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