Category: Power

Authors may dismantle and reconstruct elements of another text to remodel enduring ideas for new audiences, positioning us to embrace new perspectives, values and contexts. By dismantling and reconstructing the Jacobean drama The Tempest (1610), Margaret Atwood is able to imitate William Shakespeares timeless ideas, through her postmodern novel Hag-Seed (2016), which resonates with The…

Power is something that is impossible to avoid and is something that we come into contact with every day, even if we dont realize it. It is something that the majority of mankind strives to attain, and is never easy to do so. As defined by www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com, the standard theory is that power is the…

Shakespeare’s The Tempest textual converse with Atwoods Hag-Seed examines the gradual descent of power and authority in society, infecting individuals with merciless corruption leading to disastrous consequences. Through the dramatic plot and characters, Shakespeare represents the volatile aspect of the human nature, reflecting the complex issue of power and authority related to the context of…

The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwoods 1985 dystopian novel, explores, through the character of Offred, power within the totalitarian state of Gilead  where fertile women are treated as the property of the state, subject to systematic rape and subjugation. The Power, also a dystopian novel, published by Naomi Alderman in 2016, explores a world in…

Throughout The Handmaids Tale and Blade Runner, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick explores the theme of power through events that showcase a hierarchy in both texts. Both authors use power to give to the robust to take advantage of the fragile. What is meant by power in the context of each text is that…

I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan, and Maecenas knew. This is a good example of the encapsulating ability of literature- which transports…

Oppression is the prolonged cruel and unjust treatment or exercise of authority. It refers to an overt or secret malicious and harmful pattern of subjugation and exploitation of a community or individual practices by a regime, which is thus authoritarian or totalitarian. The oppression of women in the 21st century is perhaps more multi-faceted and…

Power refers to the capacity or ability to carry out certain action. Addition to this, it also been used to have the conditions to do so, among which are the material availability, time or physical place. If I polled 100 people and asked them what is their definition of the word power, they would all…

At its heart, Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games exposes a world in which control is brutally enforced into all parts of society. The government uses harsh, unfair policies to change peoples view of them and maintain power. Her novel discusses these ideas through inhumane punishments, division and surveillance, and the fear and deceptions people are…

Niccolo Machiavellis The Prince explores the nature of power and his views of power which are still somewhat in existence today. This essay will discuss and examine the principals of Machiavelli’s theory. Machiavelli emphasis power over the people and dictatorial power, and power with people. It is possible to use power to attain greater acceptance…