Robert Penn Warren In The Novel All The King's Men

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The extreme lovely scene which I founded during reading of Novel “All the King’s Men” are “Princes conserve Princesses, they fall in love with one another, conquer all evil and live happily ever after”. Accompany avenue this is the type of story which always bells letters public love to read, according to author Robert Penn Warren it is not actuality, fact and reality. Robert Penn Warren wrote his different novel 1946, “All the King’s Men” as a realistic and allegory play particular qualities or ideas on the life of the real annals and historical politician, Huey Long. Among his other different achievements and contribution of being a poet, an author, and scholar, Penn Warren can also be agonized and intentioned something of a political philosopher. In authoring one of his theories, he directly apparently and backtrack the ideas and abstraction of philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau who faith and belief that human nature was good and …show more content…
He is adamant to clench to a perception and angle of pureness and correctness in those in front of him. He feels and thinks that corruption and dirt exposure is very large and when he does get someone, like as Willie Stark, Who never go on this concept of corruption, he avoids and ignore the situation. Willie Stark attempts to enlighten and adduce him, but he never want to listen has words. This is the final message from Novel------- “Goodness…You got to make it, Doc. If you want it. And you got to make it out of badness…Because there isn’t anything else to make it out of”-------------. When Adam at last comes to accept and obeyed that his sanguinity dream is not bookable, his angle and discrimination is moved positive. His life is changed. He wants now to do well and have well but he is qualified to allow that corruption really can be warranted and

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