McCarthy provides social commentary on the tendency of people to act like animals when there is no one who will step in to stop them. Throughout history there are thousands of examples of people who go mad with power, or mad from the lack of power. In the road the people go mad from the lack of people who will stop them from turning on each other. That similar situation happened during the French revolution for several different reasons. During the civil rights movement, there were also events that parallelled ones that happened in The Road as well.[insert how I’m gonna end this here].
The Road is basically filled with evidence on how people will go mad with lack of power over them. For one example seeing the bodies of murder victims
The Road is basically filled with evidence on how people will go mad with lack of power over them. For one example seeing the bodies of murder victims