potential of human beings" (Webster's Dictionary 1984, p. 340). In the play, A Man for all

Seasons by Robert Bolt, Thomas More is a humanist as he knows his own values, interests

and potential, and observes those of other people. Thomas More was a man who held onto

his values no matter what. Thomas More believed in what the church said greatly. The

king had a dispensation so that he would be able to marry Catherine. When the king

wanted a divorce without a true reason, Thomas More wouldn't throw his beliefs away and

refused to say that he agreed with the divorce. When Thomas More refused to swear to the

act he was put in prison. He was charged with high treason and was beheaded.

Thomas More saw that the people in his country held no value on being true to

their religion, but he did. "Hear me out. You and your class have 'given in'-as you rightly

call it-because the religion of this country means nothing to you one way or the other." (p.

122). Thomas More knew that the people had given up something they once had claimed

to do. A person who did not follow their conscience, Thomas More believed would be sent

following his conscience, and would therefore be eternally condemned to hell, whereas

want to stand up for it. They didn't have a high enough value on it to stand up for it.

Thomas More believed that a person should follow what their conscience told them

what their conscience said verses what the person did with what their conscience told

Thomas More on the other hand refuses to drop what his religion says because he believed

into another man's conscience. I condemn no one." (p. 132). Thomas More couldn't tell if

his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then-he needn't hope to find

might have told them that signing it was the right thing to do. "I have no window to look

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