lt trying to warn us that bribery and corruption can be easily undertaken. This would make the audience think about the relationship with today's ever-changing world and the jobs that people do. It would also put a whole new perspective on the idea of trust and people not knowing who is deceiving them and who isn't. Robert Bolt gets his audience thinking when Sir Thomas More is imprisoned in the Tower, he gets them thinking in one of two ways, one of them would be he has been a martyr for his beliefs and the other would be that he is innocent and that rights under the law such as "innocent until proven guilty" should be protected. In this scene there is also an underlying friendship theme going on between Norfolk and Sir Thomas More since Norfolk is miserable because of the threat to his friend (Sir Thomas More) and this overcomes the bitterness of his quarrel with Cromwell. This scene also shows us that "it should be actions not thoughts" that the law disallows. Throughout the play Robert Bolt wants his audience to think that constitution is the base of society and that whether the state is more important than the individual. Bolt wants us to be convinced that Henry is not prepared to put up with any disagreement. This shows us the power that Henry has over everyone else and that whatever he wants he can get. Robert Bolt wants everyone to have the freedom of conscience and put morality in front of safety and shows us this in his play.
             Throughout the play Bolt lets us think that More is going to be all right defeating Cromwell‘s attacks, but this doesn‘t work out quite the way we expect it to. Robert Bolt is very skilful in recapping all that has gone on by using parallelism. He parallels quite a few conversations, for example the conversation between Wolsey and More he parallels this with More and Rich‘s conversation which in turn he parallels with Henry‘s and Thomas More‘s. There is also anot...