After pending nine months in Mrs. Collins’s religion classes there are certain things that I have come to expect. Things like word cards, calendars, and not an excruciatingly large amount of homework. In the last 2 months in her class however, she assigned us a book to read in class and at home. There were daily quizzes on our progress in the book. This was an alteration from our regular day to day religious teaching.

Overall, I thought A Man for All Seasons was an excellently written play although it lacked some important aspects I think a play should have in order to capture an audience of my age group. First, is and most prominent in my opinion is excitement or action. Second, the characters in the play were not ones I believed the majority of the congregation could connect or relate with. Last, there were certain characters in the book I felt could have used more developing in the area of character. Some of their more personal fa

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Although the book A Man for All Seasons had some minor setbacks (in my personal opinion), I did feel it was a play written with excellent quality for the enjoyment of the reader. More is then indicted by men of the king and hanged for high treason. I think it is hard for some people to relate to the fact of how wealthy these people really were. We also cannot conjecture the hardship of Sir Thomas More when he resigns from his duty of office.

The King is married to a woman whom will not bear him a son, so he wishes to marry another fertile woman to produce one.

Although this book showed signs of a thick “plot line”, there were no hook scenes in the play for the to hold the average adolescent reader’s attention. He is an honest man who makes a good living in the King’s service. He sends his will of divorce to the pope, for his permission. Sir Thomas More is the only man to oppose the king. These people are also adults living in the 1500s who, with the omission of More, are thoroughly immoral.

As to how well the play/book developed the characters all I have to offer against the length that the author created them is that I occasionally had a misunderstanding as to why some of the characters acted as they did. He cannot morally sign the petition, so he resigns. He continues to be loyal to his king throughout the book.

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All of the characters in the play we read were very opulent upper classmen with the exception of some very poor people mentioned.

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