Have you ever wondered how in every dystopian book you’ve read, the future is always caused by somebody who used power negatively. Coincidence? “The idea of power is all around us. It means “...the ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.” But is that influence always used in a positive way? The influence that comes with power depends a lot on what a particular individual or group does with that power.” Power can lead to greatness, but overall it leads to disaster and doom through negative use. First, the mass terror attack in paris was caused only by negative power usage. “At half a dozen sites across Paris, attackers carried out suicide bombings, hurled grenades, and shot hostages,” From NewsELA. The attackers used their power negatively so they could gain more respect and power within the terrorist hierarchy. Including killing innocent people, detonating bombs, and creating mass panic. The power to end somebody’s life has never been anything positive. Generally, people view death and killing negatively. Also, Even though Hitler didn't do the killing, he successfully gave the order through his negative influence on the germans. Under the influence of hitler, the entire killings add up to over 40 million people. From ushmm.org, “The Nazi regime was responsible …show more content…
for the genocide of at least 5.5 million jews, and millions of other victims.” That would be like killing the entire population of Minnesota. Most people would agree that hitler and his influence on the country of Germany was a very negative use of power. Finally, In the play The Tempest, Characters attempt to use whatever power they have to overthrow others.
Attempted Murder, Sabotage, and Revenge were all components in taking back power. “‘Take comfort. I arranged the horrible sight of this shipwreck,’ Said Prospero,” (The Tempest.) Using his magic ability and spirits he had enslaved Prospero shipwrecked the ship of the King of Naples in order to get revenge on his brother who was on the ship. There could have been an easier solution involving verbally confronting his brother instead of using his power wrongly in revenge. Typically, People don’t associate attempted killing and sabotage with any positive
images. Some people may say that corruption is just something you read about in books and see in movies, but it is a very real things and can take effect on anybody with power. Power is like “the force”, it surrounds all, but only certain people have the ability to use it. Whoever uses it to do bad things driven by their own greed falls to the dark side. Power is everywhere and nobody will be able to stop it. No matter how positive people use their power there will still always be misusers. How many times have you misused power?
Before the 1800’s, children were looked upon as only property. During this time, if a couple were divorced, the children would go directly to the father, because “women were not permitted to own property” (Costanzo & Kraus, 2012). This was practice in child custody was known as “the legal doctrine of Pater familias” (Costanzo & Kraus, 2012). However by the 1800’s thoughts on child custody had changed to what is known as “best interest of the child standard” or BICS (Costanzo & Kraus, 2012). BICS is pretty self-explanatory; its meaning is that the thoughts and feelings of a child or children caught in a divorce were taken into account over those of the adults involved in the case. The child (ren) was at that time placed within the best situation. Since not everyone was in agreement over what is for the best of a child or children caught in a divorce, once again things regarding child custody changed.
Power can be defined as the ability to influence or outright control the behavior of people. A variety of different things can drive power, including both knowledge and experience. Power in most cases is needed to establish authority. In today’s country, the United States government has a lot of power. It has so much power that even American citizens are beginning to complain about it. Having all this power and authority has allowed the government to make decisions quicker. However, by making decisions faster, some mistakes can be made and innocent people can be convicted. This point is directly exemplified when using two New Yorker articles, “Surviving Solitary” and ‘A Shot to The Heart.” Both articles consist of results produced quite
...and, and Germany. In his effort to unify all German-speaking people and eliminate non-Aryan races, Hitler was responsible for more than 12 million deaths. Using coercion, manipulation, and threats he convinced the German people if they did not comply with his demands, they would be added to staggering list of the dead. This threat, fed by the desire for an improved life is what led the German people into Hitler's hands.
Prospero, Duke of Milan, a studious man who had delegated to his ambitious brother Antonio many of the affairs of government, was 'extirpated' by him and sent to sea, with his infant daughter. Providence brought him safely to an island used as a place of exile by the witch Sycorax, where he lived for many years, studying the art of sorcery. When the play opens, he has long ruled the island, commanding the spirits of the air, and enslaving the brutish, misshapen Caliban, progeny of the witch. Through his spells he causes to be swept ashore by a tempest, a ship bearing the ally of Antonio, the King of Naples, and his son Ferdinand, and Antonio himself. As Prospero tells Miranda, his daughter:
Power to me is when you are given the special ability to do something that no one else can do, you are given these powers by someone or it is inherited by a family member. The quote “ it is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible “ by David Brin is saying power makes people corrupts but it's more true that corruptible people are attracted to power. An example in real life of this would be Adolf Hitler he let his popularity and power get to his head which led to racial prejudices and murder. The Germans were giving their power to Hitler so in conclusion the Germans had to live a hard life due to him.
...h of these each author has a different ending with power leaving a different moral for what power is and what it does. In the end power and control does do damage and kill people and make life much harder. In 1984 Orwell shows that power and control will end with the person with power defeating anyone who tries to stand up to them. “He loved Big Brother” (Orwell, 298) was the last sentence that Orwell had put and in this we know that The Party has now won and will always win. In Hamlet Shakespeare shows that if you try to pursue power through corrupt means you will die with Claudius causing the death of his brother, his wife, and his step son all for the pursuit of power. These two different morals mean that power can have different results but in the end it is very disastrous and it can cause people to be selfish, do irrational things, and become very paranoid.
The existence of power in all of its forms has ruled earthly nature for as long as time. Taking this into account, the forces that have governed even the simplest of interactions, such as the alpha system of a wolf pack, or the superior covalent bonds seen in water molecules that require an excessive amount of energy to be broken, reveal that there is a plethora of instances where power is capable of determining the state of interactions within life and the fundamental laws of physical elements. Inevitably, the ideals of power managed to seep into the minds of humans, dominating its presence in practically every aspect of human values and culture, and shaping the organization
This seems to be the case in "The Tempest", for Antonio. Throughout the play, we see him make rash decisions that are always in his own interest. He convinced Alonso that Prospero was an ill fit to hold the position of the duke. Also he bribed him so that he would exile Prospero, just so he could take his place. This was all because Antonio was envious of Prospero's title and was desirous to take it for himself. In such he created an unscrupulous plan to discard Prospero, treating him as if his life did
As Aung San Suu Kyi once said, “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” This quote emphasizes that desire of power comes with fear. Fear is able to destroy a functioning utopian ideal and turn it into a dystopian nightmare. With that idea, it can also destroy the person who desires power itself. Power means complete dominance over society. When power makes itself know to an individual it leads him to become greedy and selfish, it leads the person to feel unsatisfied about the amount of the power that he already possesses,causing him to want more of it. That one person can lead a dream of freedom and security, a utopian ideal,
This time however, Prospero used his daughter as bait in order to draw Ferdinand closer in the hopes of getting them married. He wants to regain his title as the Duke of Milan. Prospero presents himself as a victim of injustice, however his belief of justice and injustice is somewhat contradicting. He takes advantage of this authority over other people and situations he encounters while using his integrity and compassion to mask his dangerous plans and to retain love and respect. The Tempest in the end suggests that love and compassion are more effective political tools than violence, hatred or even abusive magic.
The Tempest is a play that is fixated with the concept and theme of imprisonment. This fixation, both literal and figurative, can be seen as the play manifests this concept in a number of various ways. Literally, the play centres on the story that Prospero and his daughter Miranda are exiled to a remote island and forced to live there in solitude. Prospero goes on to enslave Caliban, the island’s only native inhabitant, as well as freeing and ‘rescuing’ Ariel, a sprite, from imprisonment in a pine tree, to do all of his bidding. This literal theme is continued figuratively through the epilogue of the play, whereby Shakespeare suggests that throughout the play, the actors and playwrights are kept captive through expectations set by the audiences who may or may not even approve of Shakespeare’s work, whereby Prospero states that the audience must “release [him] from [his] bands.” (Shakespeare, 2011, Epilogue). Does the term ‘slavery’ then refer to the characters in the play, or rather to the audience, and how they interpret the play? This essay serves to uncover this problem of slavery within the play, as well as discussing the many instances of slavery, and how this play challenges them.
William Shakespeare’s last famous play “The Tempest” illustrates the theme of betrayal throughout the play. From the opening scene, the play begins with a storm that Prospero has created in order to provoke a shipwreck that contains all the people who have betrayed him. The ship contains his brother Antonio, who stole his Dukedom of Milan and the king of Naples Alonzo, who aided him in unseating him. Prospero was banished from Milan and landed in an island in which he was forced to live there for 12 years with his daughter Miranda. Not only do we get to see Prospero’s determination on seeking revenge for the injustice done to him but along the way we also get to witness how other characters plot against each other and plan on taking power from one another.
The concept of power is a very broad topic that exists in many different forms. The ability to distinguish who has power from those who do not is very clear to determine. However this is not always the case. Power can be defined as the ability to force someone’s will against another in the face of resistance. Everyday activities and societal intuitions contain an inherent power structure that is constantly at play even if those affected are not aware of it. By studying power and who wields it along with the effects in society, it proposes an explanation as to why certain people possess a higher amount of opportunities than others. The sociological imagination can be used to study power by going beyond personal struggle and connecting it to
One of the most complex changes in the play takes place within Prospero himself. In considering his motives for "wrecking" the ship and bringing the characters to the island, we can't escape the feeling that Prospero holds a great deal of resentment about his treatment back in Milan and is never very far from wanting to exact a harsh revenge; after all, he has it in his power to significantly injure the parties that treated him so badly. We learn more of Prospero's character when he has a sudden insight in the start of the final act, when he decides that revenge is not the most appropriate response.
... teaching him. However later realize his intentions are good and that he did want Caliban to be taught. Having said the power of his love over his daughter helps him develop as a better father and allow his daughter freedom in marriage that she deserves. Ending of Prospero retiring from his magical powers represents his development in becoming the ideal ruler. In order for him to do this, he must give up his rights to magic and allow his power to come the loyalty of his people. The power over Caliban teaches him to be less self-indulgent and him not wanting to help Caliban after his actions says that he is not completely vain. When Prospero drops his stick that is like Shakespeare dropping his pen when he was done with this play. He knew that The Tempest would be his last one before he retired and Prospero knew he was done being controlling and forgave his enemies.