Shakespeare uses dramatic irony as one of the main stylistic devices to unveil the false morals and weaknesses of the main characters. Using dramatic irony, Shakespeare attacks the low morals of characters and the inability to improve critical situations and life around them. Dramatic irony is based on the key themes which are order, war, and kingship, so it helps readers to understand the humor and irony of the situations. Shakespeare’s Henriad portrays the King and his military mission, thus the author raises questions rather than providing clear answers. Dramatic irony is used by Shakespeare to unveil the personal failures of the characters to see the reality and the world around them because of narrow-mindedness and shortsightedness. In Henry IV, Part I , Shakespeare depicts the impossibility to maintain order and strong power in a country famous for its military strengths and political unity. In Henry IV, Part I , which first introduces readers to the Prince who will become Henry V, three groups or centers of interest reflect on one another through a pattern of repetition with variation (Taylor 83). Taylor King Henry and his court; Prince Hal, together with Falstaff and his Eastcheap friends; and the rebels, with the focus on Hotspur as their leader. All these characters converge at the battle of Shrewsbury, which establishes Hal as the true heir to the throne when he kills Hotspur, the imposter Harry. Before that, scenes alternate among the three groups in a purposeful, contrapuntal design. Act I begins with the King in council, switches to Hal and Falstaff in the carefree world of Eastcheap, and then, in scene iii, presents the confrontation between Hotspur and the King that results in the coalition of the Percies against Henry (Champion 34). All the way through the drama we are encouraged to make thematic connections among these central figures: “A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true to one another!” [II. ii. 27-28]), reflects on how the rebels plan to steal the kingdom from Henry after they have helped him, as their former ally Bolingbroke, to wrest the crown from King Richard. As the action develops, Hal and Hotspur vie for center stage, with Hotspur often stealing the show in the theater; the King, preoccupied with the rebels and his fraught relationship with his son, cuts a less dynamic figure. For, bear ourselves as even as we can, The King will always think him in our debt, And think we think ourselves unsatisfied Till he hath found a time to pay us home. (1.3.279). This scene portrays that political leaders and the king cannot trust each other and cannot come to an agreement (Champion 94). The dramatic irony is the Henry IV is left alone and has no one to talk to. he has to accept the important decision alone deprived support and understanding of the relatives and friends. Cousin, on Wednesday next our Council we Will hold at Windsor. So inform the lords. But come yourself with speed to us again. For more is to be said and to be done Then out of anger can be utterèd. (1.1.102-106) In Henry V , however, the pattern is different, for the spotlight rests firmly on the King. He speaks more lines in the play than any other character