Yes, she is a kind heartd person who feels sympathy for her and herself I believe. She is also young and is watching and being told the status of a women. Many men and married men cheated on their wifes, which ignored it. Mary feels this is the way of the world the queen was still going to be the wife and she just the mistress. I agree that Mary had no choice she was young,naive and impressionable.

Mary clearly had a choice. However, fear and family loyalties, and the desire to be favored kept her from considering anything else. Also her young years had a great deal to do with her choice at the time. As she ages and becomes more mature she makes several decisions that actually put her in harm's way. For example she makes a three-day journey to find the man she loves and marry him without the consent of her family not to mention the danger she faced at traveling alone by herself in area that often was known to be subject to highwaymen and robberies.

I don't think that Mary really had a choice when it came right down to it. Her uncle was pretty menacing, and she would have suffered harsh consequences if she had disobeyed her family. She did love the queen, but in the end she had more loyalty to her blood ties.

I don't believe that Mary had very little choice. Without her family, where could she have gone?

In the time of the book, women had few choices and their families ruled their actions and dictated their choices. Her feelings were not considered, and her options "non-existent". At her age, at the time, considering the culture, her feelings played no part in the role she played in history.

She did have a choice.No one even had to know she was with the queen when the letter arrived.In fact there was no way anyone would have known because her and Katharine were in the room alone. she made many other decisions that would have gotten her into worse trouble.yes she was a kind hearted girl but what she did to katharine made no sense. It couldnt have had anything to do with a guilty conscience because her family treated her horribly and she didnt have many qualms about sleeping with a man while his wife was in another room in the same palace.

I think that as the affair begins, Mary fell in love with Henry. I think that while Mary may have felt some guilt, it wasn't as much as it had been before. She was the favorite of the king and, at the time, favorite of her family. I think she liked the attention. I think that Mary had some choice in what she did. Her family was mostly in charge of her life but I think she could have had some control. I think that Mary had all the choice in the world to not take that letter to her uncle. Nobody else bu her knew about it (except for Catherine) so she could have picked it up and taken it to the queen instead. It would have been very easy to not turn it in.

It is hard to say, because we were not there during the time when this was happening. What I believe people have to do is, put themselves in both Mary's, Anne's, and Catherine's shoes. Each character has a different perspective on what is right and what is wrong for that time. Some might be more conserned about the consequences at the time of the crime, and other's not. You also have to ask yourself what would you do if you were in her position. On the other hand this is also hard to say because we do not know for sure the situations and circumstances she was dealing with - family, community, royalty, etc. That time was a very hard and confusing one, especially for women who had to learn to become adults so soon and at such a tender age!

I don't think Mary felt like she had a choice. Mary was a very caring, loyal individual who never acted maliciously. She did what she thought she had to do. Unfortunately many of the choices made for her, which she acted on, went against her moral character and fiber. I believe Mary would have nevery betrayed Queen Catherine if her family hadn't told her to do so. Mary loved Queen Catherine. Mary knew the she needed the support of her family and that if she betrayed her family instead of the Queen there could be dire consequences. She was loyal to the Queen but she was loyal to her family first, as hard as it was for her.

I believe that Mary had a duty to her family first since that is how she was able to be at court in the first place. Without siding with her family, she would be all alone. If she did work for the Queen, she would have been sent away from court because her family would turn their backs on her. I believe that she did the best thing and took the note to her Uncle and then apoligize to the Queen for not following through.

I believe that Mary loved the Queen and ended up loving King Henry. She was young and soft hearted. But, during that time period in history, whe would have had no choice about what she was told to do. She was told by her Uncle to attract King Henry and she did. She felt guilty about it because she did love and respect the Queen but she would have been shunned if she had not done it. She would have been totally alone. Then she actually ended up loving the King.

Mary did exactly what she was instructed to do. Women in that time were never given choices. If she betrayed her family it could have ment the fall of many people. Although she is a very kind and caring individule and loved the queen, her loyalty was to her family first. It was a simple trade off; betray one person to secure the status of many people.

I believe that Mary is loyal, but to the Howard/Boleyn family. She has been told over and over that the family is the only thing that really matters. Everything she does is for the sake of furthering the family. Maybe her conscious tells her that these things are wrong, but her loyalty to her family is far greater than to that of the Royal Monarchy. Mary is a courtier and plays the part as a puppet attached to a string. I think up until the point that she had her children from King Henry, that she was merely a girl doing as she was told...with the children involved, and her great love for them, that is what sealed her fate and made her more of a servant. I think she was merely being a good mother and doing what she felt she must so she could be with her children. What mother that loved her children wouldn't do the exact same thing? I don't know if she really had a choice or not in the matter of the queen's letter to her uncle, but I think by this point Mary was more or less brainwashed into doing exactly what they programmed her to do. Later in the novel of course she manages to finally seperate herself from all that, but is still inevitably tied up in the drama caused by her family.

It is clear that Mary so loved her children that she was willing to do anything to be with them. Her uncle had the power to take her children from her and keep her from ever seeing them again. Mary chose to see her children because she loved them and cared for them and that meant betraying the queen to her uncle. To her, she had no choice. I think she would have rather died than to never see her kids again. Good mommy.

I think Mary had a choice, but she wanted to win the favor of her father and her uncle and the king. I've read the book, but haven't got a chance to watch the movie. But she just wanted to win the favor of her family. Also, she was very young to really make a mature choice, and she was fearful that if she didn't, she might pay for it by being exiled or something. But, if I were her, I would've left it alone because Henry was a big fat ... and treated Katherine like crap. I would have wanted Katherine to escape or be safe, or at least away from Henry and Anne.

There are some circumstances where Mary obviously had no choice whether it was in order to protect her family ties or secure the safety of he children, there was some presiding threat that guided her actions. This fact is most evident when the Queen says that she chose Mary to be her Judas because she knew what she would do and she counted on her betrayal to get the note to her nephew.

We must also remember circumstances that Mary could have governed herself. For instance the bowl if oranges that Queen Katherine received with the note in the bottom. Mary could have very easily have acted like she did not drop the oranges and ignored the note completely and no one would have been the wiser but then she runs off to tell her uncle and the returns to confess to the Queen. So in short, no, I don't necessarily believe that Mary always "had no choice."