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
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. Perhaps my knowledge and exposure of the time frame the book takes place in is not advanced enough to fathom the ideas in the characters' minds.
cets were never known to the reader/listener because the book failed to describe them well enough.
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. I would classify it very high in ranking against most of the other plays I have read, for enjoyment or as a school assignment.
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