Personal Narrative: How Power Changes A Person's Character

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Power changes everyone's character. It may show the real person they are once they obtain power. In other cases the person will stay the same, the girls being accused had received such power and it changed their character. Power always brings out the good or the bad in someone’s character and it is a way to test your character having received such power. It’ll change you, mad with power or you will remain humble and not have changed for the worse. When you feel powerful, you think about the bigger picture in more creative ways. Some think about that in good ways and others think of it in selfish ways. They focus on the gains and power will change you for the better or the worst.

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It is corrupting and will test anyone’s character. The power that changed the character of the girls can change anyone. Having power is what defines your character. The girls had power and the people of the town accused them of witchcraft and that power changed their character. It defines who you are some will be the same with power others will try to be in control and the girls had fallen victim to the changes in their character because of having power. Power changes a man’s character and will always continue to do that as it did with the girls. Power will always change a person's character and will always test them. It is the only way to test someone’s true character. Power will bring out the real person once you gain it. It may not change you at all and you’ll stay humble or it will change you in a bad way. Power diminishes the good in someone’s character if it ever gets to their head.

Power will always test one’s character. They can be consumed by the power or they will still be the same person they were before they acquire it. Your character is what defines you and power will always be what tests your character.It defines who you are. In the end power will always test one’s character. It will always reveal one’s true character and that will never change just as the townspeople thought power had changed the girls in the

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