Mentifacts (the ideas, beliefs, and values that people hold)

The movie ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ gives us a picture of medieval England, specifically England in the 16th century during the reign of King Henry the 8th(1509-1547). The people of the Middle Ages were very superstitious, religious, devout. They were serious about the notion of family, divorces were not acceptable because people were afraid to be condemned by society besides religious considerations. But people put the king above everything, servicing to him was their main aim. (Mary's father disregarded for her marriage for the sake of serving the King.) No one had the right to contradict the King’s will, otherwise he would be accused of treason.

Due to Catherine of Aragon’s (the first wife of Henry the 8th) inability to give him an heir Henry decided to annul his marriage at the insistence of Anne Boleyn. Having been refused by the Roman Catholic Church, the king declared the Church of England independent of the pope in 1534, which marked the beginning of a new era in the religious culture of England.

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