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 t ....
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