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A Man for All Seasons
In the struggle between Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII, More quotes the Bible passage (Mark 8:36) “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?” as an admonition to...
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A Man for All Seasons
At one point in Robert Bolt’s drama A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More says to his daughter, “When a man takes an oath, Meg, he is holding his own self in his own hands. Like Water. And, if...
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A Man for All Seasons
The Common Man in this play is meant to be taken as a character that everyone can identify with. The Common Man in this play is both universal and base in his character, identifying one of the key...
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A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt's play, A Man for All Seasons, is about the conflict that erupts when the pope, Sir Thomas More, refuses to grant King Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. More remains...
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A Man for All Seasons
Bolt's character of the Common Man in A Man for All Seasons is in modern drama both something new and old: New, because he acts in many different roles to establish his credentials as a mouthpiece...
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A Man for All Seasons
I believe this play does have relevance in any society, in any time period in history, including today. Ultimately, once you break past the constraints of the Tudor society and politics it is...
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A Man for All Seasons
Very late in the second act of Robert Bolt’s play A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More suggests the reasons that he has refused to take the oath that has been demanded of him: Now that the...
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A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons is the story of the integrity of Thomas More, who stood up for his beliefs against a King, at the cost of his life. This theme can be broken down into sub-themes, including...
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A Man for All Seasons
The title of Robert Bolt’s play A Man for All Seasons comes from a description of Sir Thomas More by one of his contemporaries, Robert Whittington (see link below): "More is a man of an angel's...
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A Man for All Seasons
Thomas More didn't actually give Richard Rich a gift. As Chancellor of England, one of his duties was to act as judge over civil disputes. Often people would try to bribe him to make a judgment in...
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A Man for All Seasons
This is a great question. It is first important to know where these words come from. They are taken from the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible - Jeremiah 29:11. The context of the book of Jeremiah is very...
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A Man for All Seasons
In act 1, the Common Man wonders why he is addressing the audience, as he is not a king or a cardinal or anyone of importance. He finally says, The Sixteenth Century is the Century of the Common...
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A Man for All Seasons
More's principles and faith in God were critically important to him. If he made a promise, an oath, then it was binding - it wasn't just something he said to get him through that moment in his...
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A Man for All Seasons
The fundamental basis of Sir Thomas More's character is integrity. Throughout the play A Man for All Seasons, he acts according to his religious beliefs, which pit loyalty to God against loyalty to...
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A Man for All Seasons
The Common Man serves a similar role to the classical Greek Chorus in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, in that through his observations, the audience's reactions are influenced and they...
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A Man for All Seasons
At the beginning of the story, Sir Thomas More has an excellent relationship with Henry VIII. Henry has appointed him Lord Chancellor, a position which made More the second most powerful man in...
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A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons concerns the historic Thomas More's disapproval of King Henry VIII's desire to break from the Roman Catholic Church. Henry VIII desired to do so in order to...
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A Man for All Seasons
There are multiple themes present in A Man for All Seasons including corruption, law and ethics. Corruption is observed by Richard Rich who sells out his moral doctrine and his friend Thomas More...
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A Man for All Seasons
The short answer is 'yes'. "[Thomas] More, "wrote Robert Whittinton in 1520, "is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning. I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness,...
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A Man for All Seasons
Bolt depicts More as a man who recognizes permanence in the face of contingency. Bolt constructs More as one who possesses "an adamantine sense of self." This aspect of his characterization...
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A Man for All Seasons
By this More means he cannot acquiesce to Henry's demands that he speak in support of his divorce and marriage as well as be true to his conscience, which he understands in terms of the tenets of...
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A Man for All Seasons
Your question is not complete - can you repost it, especially the second part? To answer the first part, this play is based on Saint Thomas More, Chancellor of England during the reign of Henry...
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A Man for All Seasons
All of Arthur Miller's "Elements of Tragedy" are in place in Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, with only the concept of the tragic hero giving us some trouble. You could argue that More is not a...
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A Man for All Seasons
I can see your confusion, as it is a historical play. In other words, you need to know something about the Reformation and the Church of England to understand what is going on. Here is the...
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A Man for All Seasons
"A Man for All Seasons" is a play by Robert Bolt. It depicts the relationship between King Henry VIII of England and his Chancellor, Sir Thomas More. When Henry decided to divorce Katherine of...
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A Man for All Seasons
The preface provides a synopsis of the historical events that lead to More being placed in a situation in which he has to decide between his church and his king. Bolt also states that he rejects a...
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A Man for All Seasons
The three texts in questions are highly aware of themselves as literary fiction. Bolt takes a well-known historical event (Henry VIII's divorce and Thomas More's resistance to endorsing the...
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A Man for All Seasons
I assume that you are referring to the death of Sir Thomas More as depicted in the play, A Man for all Seasons, by Robert Bolt, which has also been made into a movie. Although this play is based on...
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A Man for All Seasons
It would be easy to say that indeed Sir Thomas More as portrayed in Robert Bolt`s A Man for All Seasons fits that definition of a tragic hero. There are two problems with the easy answer. First,...
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A Man for All Seasons
In act 2 of Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More speaks of the “Apostolic Succession of the Pope.” The Duke of Norfolk, trying to convince More to support King Henry's action of...
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A Man for All Seasons
I think that the heart of Bolt's drama is the collision between transcendent idealism and practical materialism. Sir Thomas More is depicted as a figure who will not sacrifice his beliefs. While...
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A Man for All Seasons
The question -- "how does Sir Thomas More lose the esteem of his colleagues by staying loyal to his conscience?" -- answers itself: More stayed true to himself and his beliefs rather than shift...
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A Man for All Seasons
In Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More, Chancellor of England and eventual martyr, is a multi-faceted character: Alternatively beguiling, incisive, authoritative, and pious, More is...
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A Man for All Seasons
Thomas More is executed on a trumped-up charge of treason. As a devout Catholic, he is unable to sign up to the Act of Supremacy, an important piece of legislation that makes King Henry VIII head...
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A Man for All Seasons
In 'A Man For All Seasons' by Robert Bolt, the first two acts set out the direction of the plot for the rest of the text. We are introduced to the scholarly Sir Thomas More, a politician and wise...
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A Man for All Seasons
The thematic focus of Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons is the nobility of what may seem to be a very ordinary, mundane virtue: obedience to the law. In A Man for All Seasons, abiding to the...
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A Man for All Seasons
An author, humanist, and lawyer who rises to being lord chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More is "The Man for All Seasons." A man is his forties, More is a witty man who is a loyal Englishman....
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A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt's 1960 script for A Man for All Seasons is one of the more thoughtful and eloquent presentations of religious faith and the consequences of placing principle above all else that has...
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A Man for All Seasons
The key to succeeding in this assignment is creating an outline that enables you to organize your essay thematically. In other words, rather than just summarizing Blot's play, you should divide...
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A Man for All Seasons
My edition opens with an epigraph written about More by Robert Whittinton. It says: "More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning; I know not his fellow. For where is the man of...
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A Man for All Seasons
More is motivated by integrity. He will not bow to those in power when he believes the leadership to be less than laudable.More feels that the Pope is corrupt and to comply with his edicts is...
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A Man for All Seasons
I think that Thomas More is the most sympathetic character, while nearly everyone else is cruel in the film. More is the most sympathetic because in the film he is a force of constancy in a world...
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A Man for All Seasons
The role of the common man is an attempt by Robert Bolt to make the play, which set in the 16th century, more contemporary. He inserts an audience, the Common Man, whose asides to the audience are...
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A Man for All Seasons
As you note, these words come from 1 Timothy 6:12. More specifically, these are the words of the apostle Paul to his beloved son in the faith, Timothy. The main point of these words is that God...
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A Man for All Seasons
More's final authority is God - as enotes states in the first link below, he "placed God's rule over that of the State". Even though he might have been willing to compromise his ethics...
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A Man for All Seasons
The common man is effectively the audience(if you think that the majority of people watching the play would be a base and crafty figure who dons different costumes to enact the roles of More's...
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A Man for All Seasons
Women played several roles in this play, but almost all of them were relatively minor. The most common role is foil. The woman who stops him on the way to the gallows is essentially a foil—she...
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A Man for All Seasons
Sir Thomas More's wife Alice says this to his daughter, Margaret. The family, along with Roper, is having a discussion about the current state of affairs that Sir Thomas More finds himself in by...
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A Man for All Seasons
One of the important themes of A Man for All Seasons is individualism; Thomas More stays faithful to his personal religious doctrine regardless of what Henry VIII forces upon him. This theme of...
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A Man for All Seasons
In Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More's conscience requires that he not sign Henry VIII's Oath of Supremacy. For Bolt, a self-declared agnostic, the point of the play is not to serve as a...