Essay Archive - A Man for All Seasons: Conscience
A Man for All Seasons: Conscience
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines conscience as "the
sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own
conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do
right or good." In A Man for All Seasons, each character's conscience plays the
ultimate role in the outcome of the story. "Individual conscience" is trait
that each character possesses. This trait differs in intensity throughout the
play in each of the main characters. Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII show
their unc....
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