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** [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Hell, it's right there the subtitle -- "The Slave of Duty"]]
** Stripping? They intend to paddle in the water. So -- take their shoes and socks off. Probably pull up their skirts a little, too. Then, he is a slave to duty.
*** But -- ''bare ankles!'' Scandalous!
** At the end the pirates themselves surrender when called upon to do so in Queen Victoria's name.
* Arguably, this is the tragic flaw of Brutus in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''Julius Caesar'' - he doesn't want to accept that the people around him are not as idealistic and honorable as he is.
* In ''[[Camelot (theatre)|Camelot]]'', this is the fork Arthur finds himself caught on when Guinevere is caught with Lancelot. As Mordred says: "Let her die, your life is over; let her live, your life's a fraud. Which will it be -- kill the queen or kill the law?"
* Features prominently in [[Victor Hugo]]'s play ''Hernani'' and its opera adaptation, ''Ernani'' -- a rather extreme case of [[I Gave My Word]].
* This is the central theme of ''[[A Man for All Seasons]]'' -- Thomas More could easily save himself, but that would come at the cost of his integrity, something he is not willing to give.
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