Ox Bow Incident: Virtue vs Power

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English

 

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Diana C

 

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March 13, 2014

 

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University

 

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Power, in Major Tetley's eyes, was the only thing that existed. Virtue was of no concern here. He could have done as the prisoners had asked him: listened to their side of the story, waited for real physical evidence, and not gotten carried away by his own personal aims. But power was too prominent a thing to ignore, and Tetley seized the opportunity granted him to make his son a "man" by making him pull the rope around the prisoner's neck...
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Major Tetley's power-hungry motives only got three innocent men murdered, his son killed, and his own life ended. Another example of virtue vs. power depicted in the book is Davies's usage of appeals to reach out to the peoples about the posse. Davies, a complete failure among the men, doesn't have the power to stop the posse, but he tries anyway...
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