Nietzsche's Perception Of Power

All around people are obtaining power. To obtain power is something lots of people do every day, without even knowing it; it starts with pain and money. Nietzsche's idea on power is a little extreme and in all points I do not agree with. In, On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power, Nietzsche stated that, “We hurt those whom we need to make our power perceptible, for pain is much more sensitive means to that end than pleasure…” Nietzsche was explaining that sometimes we may hurt others to become more powerful. Which is a sense of greed, and selfishness. Additionally Nietzsche uses the word ‘’perceptible’’ , which mean recognizable, or appreciable. Therefore when we hurt others we want them to know that they are being hurt, without them noticing the pain, otherwise the power would subside. Correspondingly, in And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 10 people were sent on an island for a vacation. Throughout the course of their trip people died. One by one people were dropping like flies. There was nobody on the island besides themselves, so the killer must have been among them. This creates a huge amount of power for the

Through greed an example in the book is, The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, El Patron was ‘leader of the lands’ this was because of his money, and his money gave him power. ‘Farm Patrol’ as they stated in the book, was ok with all of the illegal things El Patron was doing. This was because El Patron gave all the people who came lost escaping others a job (of working in the fields). His power also was given to him by the sales of opium. A powerful drug itself, when El Patron started to sell this drug it gave him power over all of his buyers. He could raise the price substantially if he wanted to. To relate in history, William H. Vanderbilt, was one of the richest and most greedy people of the 19th century. He turned his father's business into a huge empire. Just as El Patron did with his opium and