In the play King Henry wants to divorce his barren wife to marry a new love. He feels More’s publicized acceptance of the divorce would allow it to proceed without immense public revolt. King Henry promises More, “not to pursue me [More] on this matter [the divorce]”(54), but after More accepted the Chancellor position, King Henry began badgering him to help him with the affair. The badgering and erratic behaviour became more violent towards More as he perpetually declined to comment on the divorce. Despite that King Henry promi

Likewise, Sir Thomas More should not be considered an innocent bystander in his own death. He makes poor choices throughout the play that on put him on thin ice and that much closer to his own death. More’s first mistake is accepting to be chancellor, despite his answering “no”(35) when Margaret asked “would you want to be Chancellor?”(35). He knew what his job would entail when accepted it, moreover, he knew it would conflict with his beliefs. Sir Thomas More chose the path he would walk and, it isn’t hard to foresee, that path led to disaster. Furthermore, More chose to stay in England, when he could have fled to somewhere else. Instead of trying to avoid the problem he stayed and stewed in it. Leaving was certainly a possibility because he later told his family, “All of you must leave the country”(142). Alice said to her husband, “I don’t believe this had to happen”(144) and it didn’t have to happen, if More had chosen a better path. At least twice Sir Thomas More made poor choices and put himself into bad situations in the play, which ultimately progressed closer and closer to his death.

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