In Henry V, Shakespeare uses Henry to show that a leader must put duty and fairness above friendship. King Henry has been known as a wild misfit, and someone who has no regard for the world around him, as it is shown in Henry IV, Part I, and Henry IV, Part II. He is an irresponsible drunk and the people of England question his ability to control and reign the throne when hisfather dies. He has a poor selection of friends, they all a drunks, thieves,dishonest and cowardly. Henry's father, Henry IV, suggests that Hotspur, the son of his enemy and rival to the throne, would be a better candidate for the throne than Henry