The trouble began for Thomas and others in England when Henry the eighth wanted to break from the Cathlic church because the Pope wouldn’t grant him a divorce from Cathrine of Aragon, his Spanish wife (pg. 54, ‘You must consider, Thomas, that I stand in peril of my soul. It was no marriage; she was my brothers widow. Leviticus: “Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brothers wife”’. The reason why he wanted to divorce her was because she had not beard him a son that lived (pg.54, ‘…does a man need a Pope to tell him when he has sinned? It was a sin, Thomas; I admit it; I repent. And God has punished me; I have no son…Son after son she’s brone me, Thomas, all dead at birth or dead within the month;

As the situation progressed Sit Thomas knew how he felt and couldn’t give the king his support. Indstead he remained silent. He didn’t agree with what the king was doing by denouncing the Pope and the Cathlic church.

Everyone else in the play took the easy way out when it came to sighing the oath. But because jof Thomeas morals he couldn’t lie to God and expect to go to heavan. What he did took courage. In the end Sir Thomas stayed true to himself, that is the theme of the play. If everyone could do what Sir Thomas did the world would be a better place.

He held on to his life as long as he could in the loopholes of the law (pg. 66, ‘…The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing I can’t navigate. I’m no voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I’m a forester. I doubt if there’s a man alive who could follow me there, thank God…’ He had stuck with his decsion of silence. When he was at his trial he

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Pope Cathlic, Aragon Spanish, Sir Thomas, Coronation Oath’, Sit Thomas, England Henry, , Spiritual Supremacy, St Peter, Act Parliament, sir thomas, cathlic church,