man for all seasons
... The same problem is implicated in the politics of the sixteen century In the play “A Man for All Seasons” Richard Rich acts as a foil character to Sir Thomas More, in three different ways: one is that Rich will be tempted into evil by money, two Rich will follow the crowd, and three Rich will lie under oath to keep his job, whereas More is a man of dignity and wouldn’t do any of the above three. Rich is a man who doesn’t care where his money comes from even if it is by illegal means. ... The final point is the most important of all three of them. Richard Rich does the most appalling event a man could ever do to a friend. ... More had never said anything to that affect, he was a man who always stayed silent throughout the whole King’s ordeal, with the divorce and the King becoming the Head of the Church, even when he knew it was wrong.