Question

Compare An contrast the characters of robert Baldwin and john gresham

Answer 1

The characters of Robert Baldwin and John Gresham are taken from a play called The Hour of Truth written by an American playwright Percival Wilde.

EXPLANATION:  

• The play The Hour Of Truth written by Percival Wilde explores the theme of greed and the virtue of a person.
• The main character of the play is Robert Baldwin who works for Mr. John Gresham in a bank at very low salary.
• At some point Mr. Gresham is found to be guilty of taking his customer's money illegally, and hence was kept in a jail from where his trial was to be held.
• To save himself from law he offered Mr. Baldwin a bribe of 100000, just to say three words in the trial, that words were “I don't remember”.
• Mr. Baldwin was faced with moral dilemma but eventually he respected his principles and virtue and refused to accept the bribe and later also gets another job in some bank.
• Mr. Gresham is shown as a greedy man who has no sense of moral principles in his life whereas Mr. Baldwin is shown as a man with upright virtue.