All The King's Men: Man As A Slave To Knowledge
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In Robert Penn Warren's novel, All the King's Men, Jack Burden states, “
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing a man can't know. He can't
know whether knowledge will save him or kill him (9).” Jack's statement reveals
that man is enslaved by knowledge. Familiar sayings such as, ....
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.... overpower others with dark knowledge, the secrets people keep. Stark says
that “man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the
stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (49).”
He is saying that everyone has something to hide, a skeleton in the closet.
Stark knows that everyone has some bit of knowledge to hide, and that the
knowledge makes man a slave as he tries to hide the bit of knowledge. Stark
often wields the power of knowledge ....
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