# Group online analysis of A Man For All Seasons **URL:** \ **Category:** Analysis and Review\ **Created:** [July 8, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/group-online-analysis-of-a-man-for-all-seasons/655 "2016-07-08T03:00:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 144
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This is tough – please anyone feel free to offer a different suggestion than mine, as I could see arguments for any of them. That said, I think `Permission` fits really well as the `Overall Story Issue`. All the characters are conflicted because of limits they impose on themselves, or limitations imposed on them by others. Think of how Rich really struggles with the limits others place on the job he can get, and then overcomes those limits by giving up his own self-imposed limits, giving up his conscience & following Cromwell. Then you have More, unable take the oath because of the limits of his conscience. And at the highest level of what’s driving the Overall Story, King Henry has limits both within and without. He wants to _legitimize_ his new marriage; in that sense the “Bending to the marriage” is actually a type of permission he requires. And Henry would illustrate the counterpoint of `Deficiency` very nicely, being motivated by what he feels he lacks – a male heir, a happy marriage. (note: if `Permission` is the OS Issue, `Deficiency` is the counterpoint) EDIT: King Henry has self-imposed conscience-based limits as well; at one point More mentions that the King would never perjure himself. Here is a nice quote summarizing an OS Issue of `Permission`: > CROMWELL: Unhappily [More’s] innocence is tangled up in this problem > that you can’t change your woman without a divorce > and you can’t get a divorce unless the Pope says so. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/group-online-analysis-of-a-man-for-all-seasons/655)._