Read and annotate Act 3, scenes 1-2 of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. Answer one of the questions below in a good paragraph. Be sure to use quotes from the text to support your insights.
1. Act 3, scene 1 may seem strange in its introduction of characters and the arguments and interactions that ensue among them. Consider Hotspur and Glendower's interactions. Identify their rhetorical situations, and explain how each of them achieves their rhetorical purposes.
2. In Act 3, scene 1, Worcester rebukes his nephew (lines 179-191). What is the purpose of this rebuke, and how does Worcester accomplish it rhetorically?
3. In Act 3, scene 2, what is the point of King Henry IV's question (lines 11-17), and what is he trying to accomplish rhetorically in his response to Hal (lines 29-91)?
