Question

attempt a character sketch of Baldwin in the play the hour of truth by percival wilde?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Mr. Robert Baldwin is Mr. John Gresham's personal secretary. At the start of the play, Baldwin's wife (Martha), son (John), and daughter (Evie) are tense and worried: John Gresham has just been arrested. Everyone's worried that Baldwin will be implicated in the matter; after all, Baldwin was Gresham's personal secretary. Evie defends her husband without reserve, but John laments that his father never complained about his low pay while his boss was underpaying him and robbing the depositors of the bank at the same time. Here, we have a picture of Baldwin as a man of integrity and honor; he is also long-suffering and dependable.

When his son chides him about keeping the matter from all of them (gossip has linked Baldwin to the actions of his boss), he answers that it should have been enough for them to know what sort of a man he was. He informs his family that he told Gresham to make good on what he stole from the bank and to close the bank down. He also admits to his family that Gresham begged him to testify under the defense of faulty memory about the embezzlement. Of course, he declined, despite the money offered. Here, we can see Baldwin as morally incorruptible; he is stubbornly against misrepresentation of any kind.