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A Comparison of A Man For All Seasons and Antigone

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For All Seasons" by Robert Bolt and "Antigone" by Jean Anouilh. Both of these stories base their primary characters on people in ancient history, fictional or otherwise. Bolts work, for  example, focuses on Sir Thomas More, a real man from history who stood to righteously confront wrongs he witnessed. "Antigone," on the other hand, is a play built around ancient  dramas concerning Antigone, the daughter of King Oedipus. In the following paper we examine the main characters in the stories, discussing how their sense of self was further emphasized, and  justified, through their motivations and actions. The paper then follows up with a comparison of the two characters from the same perspective. A Man For All Seasons This story  is one of integrity and righteousness as Sir Thomas More comes upon many circumstances in his life which challenge his ideals and his morals. We note the following in terms  of how the author of this story felt about Sir Thomas More: "Thomas More, as I wrote about him, became for me a man with an adamantine sense of his  own self. He knew where he began and left off, what area of himself he could yield to the encroachments of his enemies, and what to the encroachments of those  he loved.... At length he was asked to retreat from that final area where he located his self. And there this supple, humorous, unassuming and sophisticated person set like metal,  was overtaken by an absolutely primitive rigor, and could no more be budged than a cliff. (Bolt Preface xii) More could not be budged from his position because of his  beliefs and his idealism. He maintained some of the old notions of stability, as it related to Church as well as country. He desired change, this is true, but he