Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons": Reasons For A Person's Actions
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Reading about individuals whose ways of life are dramatically different
from our own provides readers with fresh insights into their own experiences and
ideas. A reader of A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, may not be accustomed
to the actions of the play's characters. Though, it is importan ....
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.... me for fellowship?"(77). He adheres
to his philosophy and conscience, knowing that he will inevitably be executed.
One who is reading this may reply by thinking More's decision was asinine. The
reader may believe that life is the greatest value to man, and to place anything
above it would be asinine. More's behavior was bizarre even to his own time
period. His daughter, Margaret, pleaded for him to sign the oath, "Then say
the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise"(81). Her ....
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