d no part. Cromwell grabbed Rich, sits him down and gives him a proposition that Rich would not refuse. This is where Rich betrays More.The common man as the role of the boatman is important where as this is the point in the play that it is unhealthy to know More. When More is out late trying to get home, he calls for a lone boatman also on his way home. The boatman is off duty but, is willing to take More home because he believes More will make it worth his while(Bolt 25). More says that there are fixed rates and he will pay what he always does. The whole way the boatman would not give up. He hassled More about the rate but, More did not budge. The boatman is just a common man trying to earn some fast cash.As foreman of the jury, this common man has more power than any one person should have. The foreman of the jury has the final say to convict Sir Thomas More of treason. With the jury being poles with hats on them and the foreman of the jury being told what to say, More has no chance of getting out of these counterfeit charges. The foreman of the jury sentences More to execution without a second thought. Even though More is a honest man and sticks to what he believes in, this is Bolts way of asserting that even under the greatest of pressures man can exist unquivocally; that it is possible to live in the modern world without selling out(Bryfonski,Harrsis 89). The foreman of the jury is just doing his job without any questions because he is a common man with things to lose. This is why he does what he is told.The executioner is the person who chops off Mores head. He is a symbol of death and a sense of evil. The executioner delivered the feeling that the truth, yet right or wrong does not matter. Innocent people can still die at the hands of corrupt people. Right or wrong Mores belief cost him his life at the hands of a common executioner. The common man plays many significant roles in this play much as a common man...
