During the 1692 Salem witch trials, people in positions of power often abuse the element of fear to control the lives of others. The idea of power and control also applies to the two narratives Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and Dune by Frank Herbert. While both Ready Player One and Dune share a similar message about control and power, Dune focuses on rewarding control and power, while Ready Player One emphasizes the results of undermining control and power. First, people in society who use their power of manipulation to control the thoughts and action of people within their own faction result in different outcomes. Next, characters have contrasting results when they use power and control as a way of persuading people to join a corporation. …show more content…
Corporations fail to hide private information about their company; as a result, anyone “could buy almost any kind of information” “on the OASIS black market” (Cline 163). In addition, Corporations are not able to preserve a good image, thus, everyone knew that “There were plenty of desperate and corrupt people working for the government (and for every major corporation)” (Cline 164). Corporations in Ready Player One are easily exposed and transparent; therefore, hacking and leaking reduces the corporations authority over their employees. The undermining of control and power results in the corporation’s poor image, which is why IOI is portrayed as the antagonist and hated by all OASIS players. Corporations in Ready Player One and Dr. Yueh in Dune use power and control to manipulate people within their group, but the two works differ because Dune shows that utilizing control and power will be rewarded and Ready Player One shows that destroying control and power will be …show more content…
The characters in Dune who use their power and control show the result of befriending others and getting rewards, while Ready Player One conveys that using power and control as a method of persuasion creates enemy and conflict. As soon as House Atreides arrives on Dune, their number one priority is to gain the respect of the Fremen. The Duke uses the Fremen as a source of protection and knowledge. The Duke explains that “‘people [Fremen] must learn how well I[Duke] govern them’”(Herbert 169). For example, during an attack on the spice factory, Duke Leto demonstrates his power and control by skillfully dealing with dangerous situation, he rescues all the Fremen workers from the spice factory before the sandworm attack. After the attack, one of the Fremen says to Duke Leto, “It's to you we give thanks for our lives. We were ready to end it there until you came along” (Herbert 201) and Kynes, the leader of the Fremen, also admits to liking Duke Leto, “Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke” (Herbert 204). The Fremen workers and Kynes are impressed with the Duke’s courage; hence, the Duke is rewarded with the Fremen knowledge on how to survive the deserts and materials such as stills suits. Since the Duke uses his power and control to impress the Fremen into joining their house, the Duke is rewarded with knowledge and materials,
How would it feel to have friends killed with a single word? That if you tried to step in and intervene you could be targeted next? What do you do when nobody else stand up? The Crucible, written by ____, takes place in Salem during the 1600’s witch trials and revolves around false witch hunts sprouted from adulterous relationships. “The Lottery”, written by ____, takes place in a small town in america in which there is a yearly drawing. Every member in the town participates in the drawing and the person who gets the unlucky draw is stoned to death by the town.. Both The Crucible and “The Lottery” display harsh truths about the negative effects society and its influences can have on its members. One truth that is evident is the result tradition
What is power to a human? As time has gone by, there have been many forms of control and influence in the world. Many strive to achieve total rule over a society or group of individuals. Yet the question still presents itself to the average man. Why does man desire power so greatly even though there is visible trouble that follows? Shelley’s Frankenstein, Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, whether through the situation or the character themselves, depict the evils and hardships due to an imbalance and poor management of power.
What do you fear in our twenty-first century society? Terrorism, inequality, losing your home, or injustice? Salem, Massachusetts during the seventeenth century feared injustices among the government. Individuals hid and lied to keep safe from being condemned as witches. This era of history is known as the Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible explores the Salem Witch Trials while following the lives of several individuals. The fear and mistrust among the seventeenth century Salem society can be directly related to today’s twenty-first century society. Americans have lost hope and belief in their government creating individuals who are scared to stand up for what is right. Glancing into our twenty-first century world comparisons can be made among the Salem Witch Trial era. Today, compared to seventeenth century, realization of fear of governmental policies, erratic and chaotic life styles, and the condemnation of individuals standing up for what is right become evident and similar in both societies.
hysteria brought about by the witchcraft scare in The Crucible leads to the upheaval in people’s differentiation between right and wrong, fogging their sense of true justice.
Arthur Miller's portrayal of Salem, Massachusetts can be juxtaposed with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. While the motivations differ, societal similarities exist and both teach us that when a whole society of people have a fear so great that it can be used against them, the society will try to do anything and everything in their power to prevent this from happening. Even when the means of prevention involves innocent people dieing and the judiciary system becoming corrupt, the society will act upon this fear of wickedness and the devil.
Throughout Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, situations that present the characteristics of mass hysteria, otherwise known as a crowd mentality, greatly affect the lives of the characters as they continue through the witch trials. A crowd mentality is achieved as emotional excitement builds and leads to someone acting differently from the way they normally would if they were alone. Many instances of crowd mentality are witnessed throughout the plot of The Crucible. Without these powerful incidents of unusual behavior, the Salem witch trials would have never occurred, and many lives would have been saved.
Corporate crime is extremely difficult to detect for many reasons. One major reason is that many people do not realise a crime is being committed as corporate crime is often seen as a victimless crime. At face value this may seem to be the case but if you look deeper you will see that this is not true. Every year the FBI estimates that 19,000 Americans are murdered every year compared with the 56,000 Americans who die every year from occupational disease such as black lung and asbestosis (Russell Mokhiber 2000). Deaths Caused by corporate crime are also very indirect so it can be very difficult to trace the problem to the corporation.
In the beginning of the late seventeenth century a sense of fear and panic was sweeping throughout the colonies of North America this fear began in a small town in Massachusetts called Salem and would lead to the death of nineteen people. This fear was caused by young Puritan girls who started randomly convulsing and accusing people of being witches many of the accused were women many single or widowed who owned land and this event was titled The Salem Witch Trails, but another smaller very significant event also took place during this period of time that event is the attempted hanging of Mary Webster. Both of these events are very significant in the fact that they would become a basis of American literature and would bring about a very big theme even in today`s literature that theme being “A majority does not always make the right decision.” Both of these events would lead to the writing of two significant pieces
Power is like a knife. A knife in proper hands can create pieces of culinary art however, a knife in cruel hands only creates destruction. Power is misused in both Brave New World and Richard III and both literary works demonstrate the same consequences. Power will destroy morality within the abuser as well as their society. This abuse of power will also lead to the creation of discontent among people. Maltreated power will lead to the manipulation of a person’s actions, removing free will. Brave New World and Richard III demonstrate how power creates conflict through how it creates discontent within society, destroys morality, and manipulates one’s actions.
The desire for power is prevalent in our day to day life from wanting control over little insignificant aspects to control over others. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is
Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams and Mary Warren helps recapitulate how powerful manipulation has over the average human being as it can do a lot of damage and cause anyone to be forced to do things that they commonly wouldn’t do. To help prove the old saying “sticks and stones make break my bones, but will never hurt me” is wrong is an excellent way to bring up the power of manipulation because in an instant of a short transfer of words over top a bounty that may lay on top of your head, even you could be lead to do things that you never thought you would do, just to protect what you have established.
Often, too much power can go to that particular person’s head, and he/she can become corrupt. As readers have seen in literature, abuses of power are often harmful to the abuser and their subjects. Corrupted authority and abuses of power eventually lead to the collapse of society. This concept is shown many times throughout the novel Lord Of the Flies and the short story “I Only Came to Use the Phone”. Displayed through characters and actions, abusive power has dominated what should be morally correct in literature.
From the displays of power that have been shown through out this essay, we see that this story is a story about power. Power is the story is primarily about peoples need for some small amount of power to survive in life and to feel that hey have a purpose within their society which every society it may be whether its is Gilead or Nazi Germany or modern day Britain.
Power acts as a catalyst in a society which is vulnerable to mass hysteria and causes individuals to favor unjust trials for personal gain.
It is known that corporations play a large part in making the world go around. Many times we read, hear or see stories on companies and why something was done a certain way. The film “The Corporation” has given a whole new insight to not only how businesses operate but what motivates them and their decisions that they make to keep their businesses thriving.