The longer you read The Mirror and the Light, the more you sense how Mantel must have dreaded arriving at this finale.
describes the rise and Cromwell-designed fall of Anne Boleyn. The latter takes a character that Mantel has spent hundreds of pages building up as sympathetic and shows him framing five men as Boleyn’s lovers and overseeing their deaths. To free the king of Anne, Cromwell knows, he needs guilty men, “so he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged.
The English will see God in daylight, not hidden in a cloud of incense; they will hear his word from a minister who faces them, instead of turning his back and muttering in a foreign tongue. … The faithful will cherish their Savior in their inner heart, instead of gawping at him painted above their heads, like a swinging inn sign. We will break the shrines, Hugh Latimer says, and found schools.
Cromwell anticipates the obsolescence of the old class system that places one man over another solely because of his “high” birth and that exalts the pursuits of the aristocracy over more productive occupations. “Chivalry’s day is over,” he thinks in“One day soon moss will grow in the tilt yard. The days of the money lender have arrived, and the days of the swaggering privateer; banker sits down with banker, and the kings are their waiting boys.
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