Wolf Hall and moral personhood

Can a good man do evil things? This paper offers a moral philosophical reading of Hilary Mantel’s novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the bodies, focusing on Mantel’s fictional portrayal of Thomas Cromwell as a good person, in spite of his growing involvement in the dirty work of Henry VIII. The narrative...

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Main Author: Hämäläinen Nora
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-12-01
Series:Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe)
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2019-0021