In The Time Of The Butterflies By Julia Alvarez
Power, guidance, and communication are all important qualities that a leader usually possesses, but are these the things that will make a leader the most effective? Over many centuries, there have been many leaders that have guided people to victory and others to destruction. There has been numerous techniques and strategies executed over time. For example, some of these aspects and themes are portrayed throughout the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger” by Frank R. Stockton in addition to the novels 1984 by George Orwell and In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. The leaders in these stories maintain different traits that either have contributed to their flourishing regime or have caused the downfall of their reign. But when analyzing
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The government manipulates the people into thinking what the government wants them to think so that no one will rebel against them. This is how the leaders stay in power while controlling the people. They are able to be effective when the government manipulates people into thinking what they want them to think. Another example is in the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Alvarez, where the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo, manipulates the citizens of the regime that he is a great and powerful person that saved the people from despair and destruction. In the second chapter of the book it states …show more content…
was an agent of poetic justice, in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance...This was the king’s semi-barbaric method of administering justice. Its perfect fairness is obvious...Thus the masses were entertained and pleased, and thinking part of the community could bring no charge of unfairness against this plan; for did not the accused person have the whole matter in his own hands? (Stockton).
The king manipulated his people into thinking that the accused person was the one who choose their fate. The king was the one who would order the trial and have it set up. The citizens also thought it was a fair way of administering punishments for they thought that the king didn’t have any power in which door the accused person chose.
When leaders have control over their people, they are able to rule their nation more effectively. In the novel 1984 by Orwell, the government watched every move and listened to every conversation a person had. They had much control over their people as we see
The government manipulates the people into thinking what the government wants them to think so that no one will rebel against them. This is how the leaders stay in power while controlling the people. They are able to be effective when the government manipulates people into thinking what they want them to think. Another example is in the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Alvarez, where the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo, manipulates the citizens of the regime that he is a great and powerful person that saved the people from despair and destruction. In the second chapter of the book it states …show more content…
was an agent of poetic justice, in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance...This was the king’s semi-barbaric method of administering justice. Its perfect fairness is obvious...Thus the masses were entertained and pleased, and thinking part of the community could bring no charge of unfairness against this plan; for did not the accused person have the whole matter in his own hands? (Stockton).
The king manipulated his people into thinking that the accused person was the one who choose their fate. The king was the one who would order the trial and have it set up. The citizens also thought it was a fair way of administering punishments for they thought that the king didn’t have any power in which door the accused person chose.
When leaders have control over their people, they are able to rule their nation more effectively. In the novel 1984 by Orwell, the government watched every move and listened to every conversation a person had. They had much control over their people as we see