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All the King's Men

In "All the King's Men", characters seem to be motivated by three main sources of power: the life that has private meaning, the force that lives within Willie Stark, and the vitality of Nature. These sources of power are identifiable primarily, if not solely, through the image patterns found in the novel. "All the King's Men" is Jack Burden's self-conscious confession and his ironic, subjective recounting of the rise and fall of Willie Stark.

In "All the King's Men" is shown that Willie Stark was corrupted from the beginning and moreover, the political party system assisted him in maintaining his political position. While Willie Stark played to those negatives and generated a spirit of ...

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Jack Burden, as a newspaper reporter following Willie's campaign, diagnoses Willie's initial failure-"Too muck talk about principles and not enough about promises."(1) But it is not long before Willie abandons traditional principles and discovers, as did Gilbert, moral pragmatism. What is right by political system, he comes to believe, is what produces results however, it may not right by law. He explains his new philosophy to Adam Stanton: "Now an individual, one fellow, he will stop doing business because he's got a notion of what is right, and he is a ...

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Added: 3/8/2011 02:53:07 PM
Submitted By: eringraves26
Category: English
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