All the Kings Men 2
In the novel, All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren, the characters live out the consequences of decisions made in their pasts. Each character deals with the past in a different way. It costs some relationships. It costs some their careers. It even costs some their lives. I believe that Cass Mastern says it best when he says "...the world is like an enormous spider web and if you and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the tingle and is drowsy no more but springs out to fling the gossamer coils about you who have touched the web and then injects the black, numbing poison under your hide"(188-189). I feel that this quote does an excellent job of capturing the theme of this novel. Jack Burden and Judge Montague Irwin defiantly feel the effects of the spider. Jack Burden, at the request of Governor Willie Stark, dug up dirt on Judge Irwin. Jack gets in over his head when he
In this novel, the spiders web controls the characters lives. It has been shown in a number of characters. There is no escape after hitting the spider's web with any kind of wrongdoing. Willie Stark is also a character that brushes against the spider's web. His experiences are different than those of Jack, Adam and Cass. Only at the end of the novel, after the closing stages of everyone else, dose Willies actions come back to bite him. Up until his death, Willie got away with this analogy, "Goodness...You got to make it Doc...and you got to make it out of badness...because there isn't anything else to make it out of"(257). With this analogy said, everything he does is justified as long as the end product is good. Inevitably, Willies actions had to come to a crashing end. The spider got a hold of him and brought him to his death. Adam Stanton, son of ex-governor Stanton, also found himself caught in the web. At one point in the novel, Adam felt as if a ton of bricks had fallen
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Approximate Word count = 670
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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