Archetype Of Brutus Jones

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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 …show more content…

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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