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Becket's Honor
Title: Becket's Honor
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 819 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Becket's Honor
Becket’s honor
Thomas a Becket was a truly noble martyr who lived with and died for honor. Thomas Becket’s stubbornness and rigorous demand for honor sealed his death. Throughout the book Becket is forced to compromise or hold tight to his beliefs and values.
As a friend to King Henry II Becket felt that there was “a gap” in him where honor should be. Becket felt that as long as he was “among …showed first 75 words of 819 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 819 total…death, realizes “how heavy” the “honor is too bare.” His death ultimately opened King Henry’s eyes. King Henry finally realized that “the honor of God is a good thing.” King Henry made it his personal mission to defend the memory of Thomas a Becket and the honor of God from that day forward. It took Thomas Becket a lifetime to find the honor of God and to realize that it was worth dying for.
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