Archetype Of Brutus Jones

Imagine a ruler who disgraces his people by taxation, starvation and killing their beliefs. A ruler that kills his opposition to get to the top or humiliates them. Brutus Jones which is a fictional character that Eugene O’Neill created in Emperor Jones as an Archetype for a modern ruler. Brutus jones can be compared to Adolf Hitler but Adolf was a full Tyrant because how he got all of his people to believe in him like a god and to be their supreme ruler. Brutus Jones doesn't fill the full criteria to be a full tyrant because he has no ideology, and he doesn't isolate his people and has no full control over them.

Brutus Jones doesn't Show ideology because the people do not follow his beliefs or total rule. A full tyrant would have ideology of his people and they would believe in his ideas like a god (http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/72/1/1.full).obviously Emperor Jones doesn't have that with his people because his people dont respect him or fear him in the story. I say that because in the story the old lady that was very poor tried to sneak into Emperor Jones home on top of the hill if she feared him she wouldn't of even dared to try to sneak in. Tyrants like Adolf

Hitler which was a master mind of ideology said "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord" (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kampf.html). he used his religious beliefs to control the German people into such horrific events. All Jones did was show up on the island and killed the opposition that's not ideology, ideology is when you have a system of ideas or ideals. Jones clearly does not demonstrate that at all.

Does Brutus Jones demonstrate isolation to his people? The answer to that is no he does not. Jones has no isolation on his island that's why the people started to rally together and started a rebellion. To have characteristics of a tyrant you have to isolate your people to have full control over them so they can never go against your rule. Aristotle said ‘’ Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms’’ (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/aristotle164123.html ).meaning that tyrants deprive them of their freedom of one another. During Adolfs Tyrants state he isolated the jewish population from the rest of the German population to keep away the true blood germans from being corrupted by the jewish people. Since he isolated the population the jews felt horrific and lost their self worth from their country they grew up in. He deprived the jews from their freedom and had full control over them.

Certainly you can say that Brutus Jones has some tyrant characteristics like he has some psychopathic tendencies. He does think he's higher than any human being and it's almost like he thinks he cant ever die by the average man because he said ‘’I'm de on'y man in de world big enuff to git me’’ mainly stating that the only way he can die is by his own hand he's absolutely fearless and crazy like a tyrant. But to be a total tyrant you have to be a mastermind of controlling, impacting fear and isolation of the commonwealth of the people to a standard where they will never go against your rule and think of you as larger than life that is a true totalitarian tyrant.

Jones doesn't have any focus on controlling his people on his island. His opposition Lem has the people's control that's why Jones has to escape in the forest he knew his power was getting weaker and weaker as his rule continued. Great tyrants such as Joseph Stalin said It ‘’is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything’’. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephstal109571.html#tlKcKJj4WcTSshT0.99).
Showing the people that joseph stalin has the power to do anything even to rig an election so why vote if it's already determined a tyrant such as him has full control over his people.

Joseph Stalin was a great Impulsive tyrant because he inflicted fear towards his subjects by hiring secret police known as the “CHEKA”( http://www.johndclare.net/Russ12.htm).that would enforce Stalin's policies and laws. It would control the subjects enough to have no fear of Stalin losing his horrific rule of Totalitarian tyrant. Also he closed down all the churches so they could follow his religion and enforced russification as an ethnic group. Jones shows no control over his subjects except making their lives miserable. Joseph Stalin is a demonstration of a successful tyrant and Jones clearly does

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Giving the evidence of a great tyrant i wouldnt say Jones is a tyrant at all. Adolf and Stalin both show fierce rule and unmerciful control to their subjects. Jones has no attitude towards isolation or fear or ideology in his rule therefore i would just consider himself a self righteous psychopath. Jones is just a pushover ruler that came into power over luck of a drawl of a firearm he might be deadly at the trigger of a gun but he isn't deadly when it comes to absolute rule. He is a coward that turns to a forest as salvation.