Hotspur is stubborn, impetuous, dense and courageous. All of these characteristics define Hotspur's vision of honor, a vision of personal integrity while striving for glory deemed noble. King Henry will say that it is nothing less than the “theme of the tongue of honor”. 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 would gain even more honor if he were involved in a conspiracy against the usurper Henry. His true colors show when he tells the king, "If he falls in, good night - either sink or swim." Send danger from the east to the west, so that honor may pass through it from north to south, and they may attack each other. O the blood stirs more to wake a lion than to bring out a hare. Hotspur believes in honoring his dive into the sweaty and bloody battlefields of war. He likes fighting more than copulating with his wife. Ultimately, his impetuous nature proves his undoing, when he is killed by the brazen Prince Hal, later known as Henry V, demonstrating a calculated thirst for glory and power, while being a much more successful man. -rounded individual in the Shakespearean canon of