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Sir Thomas More 2
Title: Sir Thomas More 2
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 636 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Sir Thomas More 2
The true story of Sir Thomas More, whose refusal to recognize Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn cost him
his life
Robert Bolt’s classic about the rise and fall of Thomas More who would not go against his conscience even to
satisfy the demands of his King.
More is the central character in this play, and we watch as he struggles with being polarized between his loyalty
to his king and the loyalty to …showed first 75 words of 636 total…
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More took the chancellorship with purposes in mind which from the first threatened his relationship
with Henry, and the fact that after his accepting the King promised him not to trouble his conscience
over the Divorce—a promise faithfully kept for over four years—speaks better for Henry's generosity
than for More's sense of the realities.
More is a saint because he never let go of his beliefs in the law and his faith.
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