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Comments by Hayden Jones


1. Free Speech

Comment #25573 by Hayden Jones on March 14, 2007 at 6:38 am

I just have some nitpicks on his comments about 'A Man for All Seasons', which I love.

1) It's William Roper, his daughter fiancee who states the line about cutting down all the laws in England and not Cromwell the prosecuter.

2) A deeper analysis of the play shows that More did not make a real sacrifice by refusing to tell a lie. More was under an oath (to god), so that if he lied he would have ended him up in hell. More's choice was either to die on earth and go to heaven or live on Earth for a while longer and then go to hell. As a believing Christian, it was not much of a choice.

The real Thomas More is a more complicated affair...