All The Kings Men- The Spider Web of Life

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Throughout the novel, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, the characters are constantly feeling the effects of their action later in the book. Every one of their sinister, sketchy actions were dealt with again later in the book and not in pleasant circumstance. As Cass Mastern had figured out:

...the world is like an enormous spider web 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 inject the black, numbing poison under your hide.(188-89)

This quote is a major theme that is encountered throughout the book.

Jack and the Judge, here is where we mainly see the web at work. Jack, at the request of Willie, went to dig up dirt on the Judge. Jack finds so many t

Willie is also one in the story who brushes constantly with the web. His experiences are much different than those of Jack and Cass. Only at the end, after the culmination of every one, do his actions come back and bite him in the rear. Willie, up until his death had gotten away with this philosophy, "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 motto essentially everything he does is justified as long as some kind of end product is good. Eventually Willie's theory had to come crashing don and be replaced with the spider web of life in which Willie must pay some kind of huge price for all of his actions, his death.

The Spider web is the true meaning of life for the character's lives in this book. None escape without paying for hitting the spider web with any kind of sin.

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Approximate Word count = 603
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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