How Does Bolt Show Integrity In A Man For All Seasons

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Throughout “A Man For All Seasons” Robert Bolt deliberately constructs the play to show two kinds of men in the world, men with integrity and those without. Bolt achieves this by contrasting Thomas More’s beliefs and integrity with other characters within the play, using events and scenarios to show characters beliefs and values intern shining a light on people's integrity, and by using Thomas More as a devices that pushes people to show their true colours.

Bolt shows two kinds of men, those with and those out integrity in “A Man For All Seasons” by contrasting Thomas More’ beliefs and integrity with other characters within the play. Bolt contrasts More with several of the characters throughout the play, the most significant ones being the …show more content…

Matthew More’s steward is questioned by Cromwell holding a coin in Matthew vision for him to see. Without a second thought he tossed his integrity to the curb selling More.”All right, so he’s down on his luck! I’m sorry. I don’t mind saying that: I’m sorry! Bad luck! If I’d any good luck to spare he could have some. I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rainwater was beer! But it isn’t! . . . And what with not having wings but walking-on two flat feet; and good luck and bad luck being just exactly even stevens; and rain being water—don’t you complicate the job by putting things in me for me to miss! (Act Two)”. This quote is after More let Matthew go, and he tells him that he will be missed but Matthew is skeptical of More seeing no reason for More to miss him. He resents felling has to worry about personal relations and responsibilities, particularly those regarding his boss.Up to this point in the play Matthew has spent the entire play acting for his own financial gain, accepting bribes for information on More and others.Having made the common man the universal man representing all of humanity bolt, lets us the reader have are own place in the play allowing us to glean our own eyes into their world, contrasting the reader …show more content…

The king is only seen this one time in the play but it tells a great deal about him and the people that follow him. He enters the scene with this grand entrance cheerful and welcoming surrounded by nobles doing his bidding. This part has a Jekyll and Hide feeling about because the king goes too see Thomas More to talk, finding out that he made his trip to get More’s word that he will approve of his divorce. Once he realizes that more will not approve, and like a switch he turn off his nice and honest act and and shows his hostile, dishonest and aggressive personality, demanding More to conform, storming off. The nobles reaction to the king tells a lot about them as well , they followed him like a lost child, with no will of their own, they're willing to throw everything they are to get a head by pleasing the king even if it goes against their beliefs and

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