Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons": Reasons For A Person's Actions

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that life is
the greatest value to man, and to place anything above it would be asinine.
More's behavior was bizarre even to his own time period. His daughter,
Margaret, pleaded for him to sign the oath, "Then say the words of the
oath and in your heart think otherwise"(81). Her father could not morally
be satisfied by this. More believed that when an oath is taken, one is
placing his pledging his self and soul. " When a man takes an oath, Meg,
he's holding his own self in his own hands. And if he opens his fingers
then- he needn't hope to find himself again"(81).
On the other hand, Richard Rich's actions were not based upon
conscience or morality. He would sacrifice his friend's life in order to
receive a job offer. After Rich testifies, and More learns that Rich was
appointed Attorney-General for Wales, he is full of disgust and disbelief
when he says, " For Wales? Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give
his soul for the world.....But for Wales!"(92). Rich can ...

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