Hotspur is stubborn, brash, narrow-minded and courageous. All these characteristics define Hotspur's vision of honour, a vision of personal integrity while fighting for glory considered noble, King Henry will say is nothing short of the "tongue theme of honour". Pretty high praise for a future traitor, heck, he even wishes Hotspur was his son instead of Hal. Hotspur's innate concept of honor leads him to the conclusion that he will gain even more honor if he were to be involved in a conspiracy against the usurper Henry. His true colors show when he says of the king: "If he falls, good night... either sink or swim. Send the danger from east to west, so honor crosses it from north to south, and let them cling. Oh, the blood moves more to awaken a lion than to bring out a hare. Hotspur believes that honor is his pique in the sweaty and bloody battlefields of war. He likes to quarrel more than to copulate with his wife. In the end , his impetuous nature will be his undoing, when he is killed by the brash Prince Hal, who in later years will become known as Henry V, demonstrating a calculated lust for glory and power, while also being a much more accomplished individual in the Shakespearean canon of