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Pike Block (the rich and poor)

I enjoyed seeing peoples Rich and Poor dioramas for the brickscalibur contest, and I decided to produce something quite different - the entries seemed to be about conflict and suffering, and I wanted to portray a scene about people being united.

This is a Lego interpretation of the kind of a military formation from the hundred years war that inspired one of Shakespeare's greatest speeches

We see the rich, the knights in the heaviest armour forming the front line of the spear block. Their heavy armour protects them, and those behind them, but the poor, in their worse armour at the back, are able to put their spears out in front, protecting the front line.

Because of this mutual protection, these people from diverse backgrounds end up hugely valuing each other and becoming as Shakespeare says a "band of brothers", sharing in the honour of their victories and the spoils of war.

These different attitudes to the peasants between England and France becomes one of the drivers of the success of Henry V and his successors. English peasants are encouraged to capture and ransom back french nobles, and as a result, become hugely wealthy, whereas the french nobility worry about the emergence of a middle class and as a result stop their peasants from making any such ransoms, as a result, the Kings army remain organized and motivated, whereas the Dophans supporters often struggled to get the peasants living on their land even to show up.

Taken on: January 17, 2022

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