A Man for all Seasons . Thomas More is a hero. While T.S. Eliot's Thomas Becket moves within a different kind of play, he too is the hero. Write a comparative analysis of these men. For the essay, I chose to compare More to Becket, Jim Casy from The Grapes of Wrath, and Mahatma Gandhi.
Heroes can be heroes accidentally but More was no accidental saint.
A hero usually gets to enjoy his fame, short though it may be. Taking an oath is meant to be quite exceptional for a person is meant to be truthful by habit and virtue. Taking an oath is a symbolic public act and so can he heroic. Bolt has no doubt he brought on his own death. 4 the principal male character in a play, novel, etc.