The Importance Of Morality In The Play The Lady's Not For Burning?

In the play The Lady’s Not for Burning by Fry, love progresses from a strong desire for someone without the support of an actual emotion connection to a connection that two people will take risks to protect that emotional connection of true love. Nicholas and Humphrey’s infatuation with Alizon is a perfect example of believing a foolish reason to why there should be love. These instances can be seen the collection of their lines concerning Alizon, but especially when Nicholas addresses Humphrey, “You dismal coprolite! It’s in my stars I should have her. Wait till it’s dark, and go out if you dare bareheaded under the flash of my star Mercury. Ignore the universe if you can. Go on, ignore it (p. 22)!” It’s obvious in theses lines that Nicholas

Unlike the modern age, the culture in The Lady’s Not for Burning did not have a strong passion to discover the how and why of the world. The lack of curiosity is why Jennet’s society never recognized her father’s work and research in alchemy. When Thomas says, “To change the matter of the world! Magnificent intention. And so he died deluded (p. 56),” he represents the ideology the rest of the society followed. No one believed in asking deeper questions than what was needed and Jennet voices out her father’s lack of recognition because of this. For instance, Jennet’s pity and admiration towards her father can be seen when she explains her father’s life in the lines, “In the pursuit of alchemy. In refusing to accept your dictum ‘It is what it is.’ Poor father. In the end he walking in science like the densest night. And yet he was greatly gifted. When he was born he gave an algebraic cry; at one glance measured the cubic content of that ivory cone his mother’s breast and multiplied his appetite by five. So he matured by a progression, gained experience by correlation, expanded into a marriage by contraction, and by certain physical dynamic formulated me. And on he went still deeper into the calculating twilight under the twinkling of five-pointed figures till truth became for him the sums of sums and death the long division. My poor father. What years

Throughout the play we witness many examples from almost every character to how they all see the mind as the definition of that person. However, Tyson takes this view to an extreme when he states, “Yes, just it, just it. Giving us a rigmarole of her dreams: probably dreams: but intentionally recollected, intentionally consented to, intentionally delighted in. And so as dangerous as the act. Fetch the constable (p. 32).” Tyson’s statement claims that even if Jennet only thinks of being a witch, then she is guilty of being a witch despite the lack of feasible evidence or actual