Animal Farm, Hunger Games, And Harrison Bergeron

Power and your identity Abraham Lincoln once said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” All men are the same but once you give them power you find out who they really are. Men can either do good with their power or they can do evil with their power. In Animal Farm, Hunger Games, and Harrison Bergeron, it truly shows how power can either be for evil or for the good. Power greatly affects individual identity. When you have power everyone is not equal, you become a leader, and you start thinking of yourself. When you start having power either physically, emotionally, individual, etc..., you start having different equality then others. In Harrison Bergeron it said “It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and Empress were dead…” (Vonnegut 5). They say that everyone is supposed to be equal but none of the Handicapper Generals had to wear any handicaps. The Handicapper

They might say in The Hunger Games Katniss never changed her identity when she gotten power from the people. But actually Katniss did changed, before she even had power she was just a very innocent and quiet person. Then after she started speaking out to people to get her to like her. In Animal Farm “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” (Orwell 141). Pigs and humans are two different things and look like two different things to. After all this war and power they couldn’t tell which one was which. The power that the pigs had changed their identity so much that other animals couldn’t tell the difference between human and the pigs. When you have power something about you changes, since you never really had that before, you start abusing it for the good or