The Servile State · Character
Henry VIII
Historical monarch referenced in context of servile institutions.
minor
Also known as Henry
First appearance: ii our civilisation was originally servile
Henry VIII's tie to Citizen A is one of the pressures that moves The Servile State—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
Mentioned as the monarch over early sixteenth-century England, whose Crown inherited power but whose confiscation of monastic lands ultimately passed to an oligarchy.
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- Psychological
- Other
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- Monarchical power symbols
- Illustrative political figures
- Protagonist
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- Citizen A
psychological · negative
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- Citizen B
psychological · negative
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