Does anyone ever remember anything else that LordActon ever said?
I must agree with one of the other reviewers,who commented on Taylor Caldwells' reactionary,ultra-right wing view of history,and the alleged conspiracies that a clique of powermad millionaires are using to control the fate of the world.I especially enjoyed his describing it as "John Birch",and lunatic.
Caldwell also espoused a medieval,Catholic view of human nature,which interpreted life and all human motivation as being determined by the basest, rawest,and most vicious, mean-spirited factors imaginable.(Lest one think I am a bigot, please be aware that I am a Roman Catholic, and am aware of how our church doctrine has changed over the centuries.) She felt that, if any behavior of an unselfish sort happened, it was invariably caused by the most depraved and malevolent aspirations that could be construed. So, the characters in her novels inevitably act from positions of malice, corruption, and malevolence. Of such vicious cyclesis paranoia born.
Given these assumptions, this series, rather wisely, attempts to tone down the grim, bitter, erspective, and has, indeed, sanitized and homogenized much of what was related in the original story. From a technical point of view, it's well-done. And it's nice tosee jane Seymour in her early career, establishing one of many portrayals as a noble, igh-minded, virtuous,and beautiful and sensous heroines.
I must agree with one of the other reviewers,who commented on Taylor Caldwells' reactionary,ultra-right wing view of history,and the alleged conspiracies that a clique of powermad millionaires are using to control the fate of the world.I especially enjoyed his describing it as "John Birch",and lunatic.
Caldwell also espoused a medieval,Catholic view of human nature,which interpreted life and all human motivation as being determined by the basest, rawest,and most vicious, mean-spirited factors imaginable.(Lest one think I am a bigot, please be aware that I am a Roman Catholic, and am aware of how our church doctrine has changed over the centuries.) She felt that, if any behavior of an unselfish sort happened, it was invariably caused by the most depraved and malevolent aspirations that could be construed. So, the characters in her novels inevitably act from positions of malice, corruption, and malevolence. Of such vicious cyclesis paranoia born.
Given these assumptions, this series, rather wisely, attempts to tone down the grim, bitter, erspective, and has, indeed, sanitized and homogenized much of what was related in the original story. From a technical point of view, it's well-done. And it's nice tosee jane Seymour in her early career, establishing one of many portrayals as a noble, igh-minded, virtuous,and beautiful and sensous heroines.