A Man for All Seasons Group

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stefny
stefny
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High School - 11th Grade

I need to have themes in "A Man for All Seasons" by Robert Bolt.

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Posted by stefny on Monday April 28, 2008 at 10:55 AM and tagged with a man for all seasons, themes.

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  1. brandih

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    Posted by brandih on Monday April 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM

  2. wilkanrains
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    Individualism

    The historical More acted out of religious belief as well as integrity, and he became a saint for his forbearance. For Sir Thomas More, God not a political sovereign self-appointed to head the Church had jurisdiction over a human's soul, and More felt compelled to honor God's rule over an earthly king's command. Robert Bolt modernizes More's beliefs however, Robert Bolt's Thomas More tells his daughter that for a man to take an oath is to hold "his own self in his own hands," a sentiment more aligned with the individualism of the modern period, when Bolt wrote the play. Bolt's More equates the soul with the self, saying "a man's soul is his self," a statement that would have been as unfamiliar to the historical More as to any of his sixteenth-century contemporaries......

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    Posted by wilkanrains on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 6:13 AM