Influenced by Politics from the 1940s, Robert Penn Warren novel gets inspiration from Huey Long’s life a Louisiana Governor, Senator, a politician who is recreated in Warren novel as Willie Talos. Warren also creates Jack Burden to narrate the story of Long, who is being characterised as Willie Talos. The story of Jack Burden in Robert Penn Warren’s book All The King's Men, tells the story of how he gets involved in Willie Talos political life as his employee, and as his loyal friend. Jack Burden, who narrates his life and Willie Talos story, self-declaring that “the story of Willie Talos and the story of Jack Burden are in a sense the same story”(224) in a sense actually narrating how Warren thought that Huey Long's life was by creating a
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As a matter of fact, he is a self proclaimed “Brass-Bound idealist”(30) that is a idea that he learn in college, which basically means that everything exist because they can be perceived Jack uses this idea to evade responsibility and severity from his actions this. This traduces, to the fact that his actions do not necessarily affect other people's lives. In the other hand, latter in the story Jack realizes that this is the wrong mindset because several problems that happen later in the story have their roots back to when jack was a kid in Burden’s Landing, this brings Jack to a several deep depression that became a motif to him, Jack calls the motif the “Great Sleep” this happens twice in the story, the first one happens when he leave Lois his first wife because he realizes that he is just using her and also probably hurting her so Jack just decides to leave Lois, leaving her with this message “Goodbye, Lois, and I Forgive you for everything I did to you.”(429) this of course referring at the blame he felt by the fact of just using Lois and not actually loving her., The second one happens when he decides to drop out of college, even though he is just about to finish because of the story of Cass Mastern and the responsibility that he fails to finish the story but he is not able to because in fact he does not understand Mastern, this frustration guides Jack into another Great Sleep. Then he solves the problem that the his Brass-Bound idealism has created, by creating his own philosophy of life which he calls the “Great Twitch” he comes to this realisation in a dream “that dream was the dream that all life is but the dark heave of blood and the twitch of the nerve”(433) which is based in the fact that life is a combination of random events the twitch and the blood that is a mysterious force that makes people do what they do. As well Jack has problems not understanding but
As a matter of fact, he is a self proclaimed “Brass-Bound idealist”(30) that is a idea that he learn in college, which basically means that everything exist because they can be perceived Jack uses this idea to evade responsibility and severity from his actions this. This traduces, to the fact that his actions do not necessarily affect other people's lives. In the other hand, latter in the story Jack realizes that this is the wrong mindset because several problems that happen later in the story have their roots back to when jack was a kid in Burden’s Landing, this brings Jack to a several deep depression that became a motif to him, Jack calls the motif the “Great Sleep” this happens twice in the story, the first one happens when he leave Lois his first wife because he realizes that he is just using her and also probably hurting her so Jack just decides to leave Lois, leaving her with this message “Goodbye, Lois, and I Forgive you for everything I did to you.”(429) this of course referring at the blame he felt by the fact of just using Lois and not actually loving her., The second one happens when he decides to drop out of college, even though he is just about to finish because of the story of Cass Mastern and the responsibility that he fails to finish the story but he is not able to because in fact he does not understand Mastern, this frustration guides Jack into another Great Sleep. Then he solves the problem that the his Brass-Bound idealism has created, by creating his own philosophy of life which he calls the “Great Twitch” he comes to this realisation in a dream “that dream was the dream that all life is but the dark heave of blood and the twitch of the nerve”(433) which is based in the fact that life is a combination of random events the twitch and the blood that is a mysterious force that makes people do what they do. As well Jack has problems not understanding but