All The King's Men
All the King’s Men is not the story of one man’s political rise and fall, but the story of two men. Willie, whom many take as the main character, may not even be the main character, but Jack Burden. But in all, Robert Penn Warren’s novel is not the story of a singular man or two men, but a complex story of human achievement, failings, errors, and ideals. Jack Burden distinctly goes through a profound change throughout the course of the novel. Jack Burden calls himself a “student of history,” only caring about revealing the truth, and taking pride once unraveling the past. Through the course of the novel, Jack Burden seems to question his status to only find the truth, and comes to the question, what really is the truth? Are there really two truths, one being qualitative and the other being quantitative? This conflict is brought up in many aspects of the novel, and by realizing the significance of Jack’s awareness of this conflict do you realize that the novel really isn’t the story about Governor Willie Stark, but the story of Jack’s “spiritual odyssey.” Jack hasn’t really discovered who he really is in the beginning of the novel, as is shown through his confrontation of the judge with Governor Stark,
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Approximate Word count = 1157
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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