Water: Necessary to Life, Useful in 'A Man for All Seasons' Anonymous 11th Grade

Water, in a purely chemical sense, is one of the most important molecules for life, as its various chemical properties, allow all living things to survive. Because of water’s ubiquity in the scope of human survival, novelists and playwrights do not take its existence for granted. Take, for example, Robert Bolt’s play A Man for All Seasons. Centering around English moral figure Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons focuses on More’s principled stance against the divorce of Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Spain. When all other denizens of England accept Henry VIII’s divorce and allow him to become Head of the English Church, More remains steadfast in his support of English law and Catholic doctrine. In the same manner, a recurrent theme in Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons is that man, in many ways, will remain steadfast in his own principles. However, one may demonstrate their steadfastness in their principles in a variety of ways. As a result, Bolt utilizes water imagery to illustrate this multifaceted theme through the multifaceted forms of water with multitudinous forms such as storms, seas, rivers, and precipitation. In A Man for All Seasons, Author Robert Bolt successfully utilizes the various characteristics of water to...