A Man for All Seasons Questions and Answers
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Please explain the significance of this quotation from A Man for All Seasons: "For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a...
In Matthew 16:26 (21st Century King James Version), Jesus asks, For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Sir Thomas More's quip in A Man for All...
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In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More at one point says to his daughter, "When a man takes an...
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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Does A Man for all Seasons have relevance in today's world?
Bolt's play deals with a universal dilemma, one still quite relevant in today's world: the problem of standing by one's convictions when the consequences for doing so are dire. Thomas More is asked...
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What is the role of The Common Man in A Man Of All Seasons?
The Common Man shows us how the power struggles of Tudor court life effect everybody, not just elite members of society such as Sir Thomas More. The various characters played by The Common Man are...
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What are the themes in 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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What qualities or traits does the Common Man portray in 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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What does the minor incident of the steward drinking More's wine and More's reaction to him show the audience about...
Matthew, More's steward, who is also the Common Man, drinks some of More's wine. More realizes this and does not get upset, but merely comments that he hopes it was good. This seemingly minor...
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What is a summary of A Man For All Seasons?
Let me give you a summary based on three memorable points. Context. First, you need to know that the play takes place in the 1530s. During this time, most of Europe was religious. In other words,...
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What role does the Common Man play in Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons?
The Common Man, as his name indicated, plays the role of the average person or everyman in this play. As such, he appears in a number of different guises. While he is not based on any historic...
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What is Henry VIII's relationship to Sir Thomas More? "Because you are honest . . . Follows anything that moves—and...
Henry VIII trusts Sir Thomas More because he can count on his unswerving loyalty and incorruptibility. While other courtiers shamelessly abuse their positions of power and influence to line their...
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What is learned in Bolt's preface of 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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What does More sacrifice in A Man for All Seasons? What values is he trying to stay true to?
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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Explain how this biblical quote applies to a Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt. "...For i know the plans i have for...
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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What similar literary devices do the authors of A Man for All Seasons, Hamlet, and The Life of Pi use?
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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Who is responsible for More's death in A Man for All Seasons? Explain with more in-depth detail.
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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In A Man for All Seasons, More's silence on the validity of the king's divorce and defiance of the pope extends even...
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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Why was Thomas More executed in A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt?
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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In the play "A Man for All Seasons," what gift does Thomas More give to Richard Rich?
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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What effect does Brechts alienation technique have on the common man during the play, and to the audience?
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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Discuss Robert Bolt's dramatic presentation of religious faith and consequences in the play 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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According to the prologue of A Man for All Seasons, who or what is the Common Man?
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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Why, in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, does Sir Thomas More refuse to agree to the oath imposed by Henry...
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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Discuss the conflict between idealism and materialism in 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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What does More mean by saying, "when a man takes an oath, he is holding his own self in his own hands"?
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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Is A Man for All Seasons a relevant historical drama to a modern audience?
Most definitely yes. Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons was executed for believing in his religious doctrine and staying true to his faith. He represents the heroic figure who refused to submit...
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In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, what kinds of personality traits does Sir Thomas More exhibit?
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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In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, what is the significance of the act of prayer among Thomas More and his...
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" demonstrates that in the end, everybody has this price. Do you agree?
No. If every man had a price, then the King would have gotten the annulment he wanted, would not have broken with the Church, and the history of England would have been changed dramatically. Also,...
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Is the 'Hero' and A Man for All Seasons one in the same in Robert Bolt's play 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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In the play "A Man for all Seasons", who is the 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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What are the themes presented in the book 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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Bolt’s protagonist in A Man for All Seasons stresses that it is not necessarily the content of his convictions that...
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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''No man can serve two masters.'' Explain with general reference to the play "A Man for All Seasons", and also in...
"No man can serve two masters" is taken from Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13. Jesus was explaining that it is not possible to devote yourself to God and to any other power or pursuit at the...
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Who is a man for all seasons and why, in the play 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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Could we define Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons as a tragedy in the traditional sense of the word or merely as a...
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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What is the role of the common man in "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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In terms of authority, what is at the core of More's decision to remain faithful to his beliefs (according to A Man...
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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What is "A Man for All Seasons" about?
"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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How is the issue of identity explored in A Man for All Seasons?
In A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt presents us with a protagonist, Sir Thomas More, who is a man of utmost integrity, a man whose identity remains fundamentally unchanged despite the enormous...
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Is silence considered a theme in the play and if so how is it portrayed in the play?
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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Bolt's protagonist in A Man for All Seans stresses that it is not necessarily the content of his convictions that...
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...
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what is the function of the opening monologue in A Man For All Seasons?
The play opens with the Common Man speaking. The stage directions describe him as “Late middle age. He wears from head to foot black tights which delineate his pot-bellied figure. His face is...
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Does Sir Thomas More really believe in his conscience, or is he just self-confident?
Based on my readings about Thomas More, both historical and fictional (Bolt's play, for example), I think he truly believed that he had to follow his conscience and the teachings of the Roman...
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I need to have themes in "A Man for All Seasons" by Robert Bolt.
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How does Sir Thomas More lose the esteem of his colleagues by staying loyal to his conscience?
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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How did it happen that the law that Thomas More respected did not save him when he needed it the most?
When Henry visits More to ask him for his support, More makes very clear that there is a distinction between God's law and that of the king. He also says that although he will respect the laws of...
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What does the Common Man symbolize in 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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In the play "A Man for All Seasons" what were Thomas More's reasons for not assenting to the acts of...
Essentially More is an Honest man, as King Henry VIII points out to him in their conversation early in Act 1. That need to remain honest extended from a fear of going to hell. This was the 16th...
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Given this Biblical Quote, explain how it applies to a Man For All Seasons Consequently, you are no longer foreigners...
In A Man For All Seasons, Sir Thomas More is a a man who stands upon his convictions rather than submit to an oath he believes to be false. More, a devout Catholic, was also prominent in the court...
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Explain how the biblical quote below applies to Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons.
The biblical quote is from Deuteronomy 31.6: Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you....
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