After The Ball, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Evil & Power
In After the Ball, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and On Evil, Guilt, and Power
In these three pieces we have read there is a strong thread of evil and power separately throughout each of them and also how evil and power play a role when the other is present. Each piece views evil and power differently but also has common ideas. A common idea in each piece is that power can be good or evil depending on the factors involved. Nietzsche wrote that power is happiness and this is true in all three pieces as well as in real life, people are always working to have more control and be trusted with more power Power dictates good, bad, and evil.
Power itself is just something that exists but once a person obtains power it can become good or evil. In “After the Ball” Varenka’s father, a colonel in the military, is someone with great power. He uses his power to …show more content…
When given great power people will use that power in one of these way. “It is only a question of strength” (66) This point Nietzsche makes is very important and I think it is very true and applies a lot when it comes to power and evil. A person must be strong and prepared to handle large amounts of power or that power will be too much for them and the power will control them and could create evil. In “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” the sorcerer had not given Allan lessons on magic right away he had first had Allan completing chores. I believe this was to make Allan appreciate the power he was being given from the sorcerer and respect it and that way it wouldn’t take him over. This didn’t work because Allan had the wrong intentions from the beginning. He was not strong enough to see past wanting to do good and make his father proud. He did eventually find strength from his father when he realized his father was already proud of him. While power can become bad or evil when sought after in the right way power can be
In After the Ball, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and On Evil, Guilt, and Power
In these three pieces we have read there is a strong thread of evil and power separately throughout each of them and also how evil and power play a role when the other is present. Each piece views evil and power differently but also has common ideas. A common idea in each piece is that power can be good or evil depending on the factors involved. Nietzsche wrote that power is happiness and this is true in all three pieces as well as in real life, people are always working to have more control and be trusted with more power Power dictates good, bad, and evil.
Power itself is just something that exists but once a person obtains power it can become good or evil. In “After the Ball” Varenka’s father, a colonel in the military, is someone with great power. He uses his power to …show more content…
When given great power people will use that power in one of these way. “It is only a question of strength” (66) This point Nietzsche makes is very important and I think it is very true and applies a lot when it comes to power and evil. A person must be strong and prepared to handle large amounts of power or that power will be too much for them and the power will control them and could create evil. In “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” the sorcerer had not given Allan lessons on magic right away he had first had Allan completing chores. I believe this was to make Allan appreciate the power he was being given from the sorcerer and respect it and that way it wouldn’t take him over. This didn’t work because Allan had the wrong intentions from the beginning. He was not strong enough to see past wanting to do good and make his father proud. He did eventually find strength from his father when he realized his father was already proud of him. While power can become bad or evil when sought after in the right way power can be