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A Man for all Seasons - Feedback needed! on 2009-10-29
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“Convenience is the constant factor.”
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does not position the audience to admire
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compromising any aspect of himself
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move up the hierarchy of the State
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“when the King wants something done, I do it.”
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happy to perjure his soul
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unlike More’s “moral squint”
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burning Rich’s hand in the “candle flame”
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disgusted and fearful of Cromwell
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Though Rich is initially reluctant to “lose [his] innocence” for status, his perjury and consequent compromising of his own soul ultimately grants him a “position”
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establishes Rich’s weakness
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hunger for power overriding his tugging conscience
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we may sympathise with Rich
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he is aware of Cromwell’s trickery and dishonesty
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grant him “something” in return
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we feel disgust at a system that promotes and protects such devious sycophants
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“It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world”
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Though able to ride these “current and eddies” of corruption, Rich’s rise in power accounts for his lost morality.
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Rich and Cromwell continue to rise in status
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the cost of having principles through More’s social downfall
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his juxtaposition between More and Rich
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More would rather “a quiet life” and considers office to be “inflicted” onto him
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his moral purity fails him in surviving such a corrupt moral landscape
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contrasts the honesty in which More operates
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naïve trust in the law and humanity
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attempts to shelter himself “within the thickets of the law”
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as both ultimately fail him.
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complicity of the Common Man’s desire to be a “plain, simple man” also destroys More’s only chance of surviving
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material possession can be lost when sticking firm to beliefs
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The French Revolution on 2009-10-23
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Among the most decisive moments in the revolution was the fifth
of October 1789, when six or seven thousand women of Paris marched in
the pouring rain to Versailles to demand bread and force the king to
move to Paris.
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The leaders of the French revolution
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But the greatest protagonist of the Revolution has no name. It is
the revolutionary people itself
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;almost all members of the radical middle class.
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Paris
Commune and the numerous local communes that imitated it in the
provinces
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This was the
motor-force that impelled the Revolution forward.
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As a matter of fact the
violence of the masses is inevitably a reaction against the violence
of the old ruling class.
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Brunswick
manifesto of July 27
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from both internal and external enemies.
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"fraternity and assistance
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any territory occupied by the armies of the
Revolution, feudal obligations would be abolished and the property of
the Church and aristocrats confiscated
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combining the war
against foreign enemies with the class war at home
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nouveaux riches speculators
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In the period of its
ascent the Terror was a weapon in the hands of the masses directed
against the enemies of the Revolution
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"Atrocious though it was," writes David
Thomson, "by the test of atrocities committed by modern
dictatorships, the Terror was mild and relatively discriminating."
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But in the period of its decline, the victims of the Terror were
revolutionaries
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The French Revolution was a bourgeois revolution
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Part One: 1789, Fall of the Bastille
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Part Two: 1793, Rise and Fall of the Jacobins
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Clay Burell on Diigo on 2009-10-23
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Chapter 12 Page 9 on 2009-10-22
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Some Symbols
of the Revolution
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution on 2009-10-22
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Russian Revolution Resources on 2009-10-22
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SparkNotes: A Man for All Seasons: Context on 2009-10-22
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