Choose one of these topics:
1. The ironic friendships of More with Rich, Henry, and Norfolk:
Body paragraph 1: Discuss evidence that More’s refusal to help Rich advance in a political career, which Rich implies is unfriendliness, is based on concern for Rich’s wellbeing. Include evidence that More has real affection for Rich, whereas Rich is revealed to be no friend to More at all.
Body paragraph 2: Discuss evidence that despite Henry’s implications that it is unfriendly, More’s refusal to forsake his conscience in regards to Henry’s divorce shows true friendship. Include evidence that More has real affection for Henry, whereas Henry’s professions of friendship to More are largely self-interest.
Body paragraph 3: Discuss evidence that More’s harsh severance of friendship with Norfolk is itself an expression of friendship. Include the contrast that despite Norfolk accusing More of unfriendliness for not taking the oath, it is Norfolk who proves the worse friend.
2. The words and actions of More in the play that reveal that an upright conscience is greater than any earthly good, even life itself:
Discuss one of the following: either (1) How More gives up increasingly weightier goods as he remains loyal to his conscience: the esteem of colleagues and his high office; the understanding of friends and comfort of family; and his liberty and nally his life; or (2) the reasons he gives in his conversations with Wolsey and Henry, Alice and Margaret, and Norfolk for why he values an upright conscience as the highest good in earthly life.
3. The inverse (or contrasting) parallel between Rich and More and how their contrast structures the plot of the play:
Discuss how their contrast begins in their very first conversation; how the contrast only widens as time goes on; how More declines in gradual steps in his conditions in life but rises in virtue, and how Rich rises in steps in his conditions in life but falls into vice.
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