Political Power Relations

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Discusses different way power is depicted in three literary works. Their historical era. Homer's THE ODYSSEY, Jonathan Swift's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS & Machiavelli's THE PRINCE. Depiction of human beings as power brokers and pawns in power struggles. How political power operated. How political power should be taken, utilized and maintained by the ruler.

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"Power relations are featured in different ways in different literary works, and often how power is portrayed is dependent on the historical era from which the work emerges. Power is seen in stark terms in many works in which human beings act out power plays fueled by ambition, hatred, lust, and similar basic emotions. In ancient Greece, represented by The Odyssey, Homer shows human beings not only as power brokers in their own right but as pawns in power struggles among the gods. Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels satirizes the operation of political power in his own era, while Machiavelli in The Prince suggests how political power should be taken, utilized, and maintained by the ruler.


Odysseus in The Iliad is presented as the shrewdest of the..."

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