A Man For All Seasons - 16th C

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type of man that Thomas More is. More saw in himself something that was his only and he was that it was something that allowed him to live life with confidence in himself. Only when he was denied that way of life was he able to accept his fate of death. Robert Bolt comments on this on page 13 of the preface. “…who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him, he was able to grasp his death.” This shows that Thomas knew that he had a sense of identity that no one else and he knew how important it was.
After Robert Bolt selected this man, he began to write and realised many more things about Thomas More, which had drawn him to the 16th century character. One of the things that Bolt found out was More’s sense of self. He remarks on this on page 12 of the preface. “At any rate, Thomas More, as I wrote about him, became for me a man with an adamantine sense of his own self.” Robert Bolt went back to this era long past because of ...

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they were on his good side, no matter what. Another reason was that More acted differently than everyone else; he believed that you had to earn your status. And the divorce, well, the divorce can be looked at as the King and the Church meeting at a head. It was king versus the church, and for Thomas More, it was his life vs. his spirit.

The first thing about the setting that I want to look at is the King. King Henry has been spoiled and has become corrupt in his power. He uses his authority as he sees fit and this makes him a dangerous man to cross. For instance, Wolsey failed the King in getting the divorce and died for it, under a false charge of High Treason. Now the King has put ...

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