Misuse Of Power In 'Flawed And The Real World'

David

Keeney, Callista

English 9 Honors

27 February 2023

Dangers of Abusing Power

Power is used in multiple ways; it can be used for good reasons and bad reasons. When used logically it can be rewarding and when misused the consequences can be damaging. An example of the consequences being damaging in real life is when a branch of the F.B.I. started spying on U.S citizens illegally, causing the public to lose their trust in the government, and that made that specific branch, which is called TALON, shut down for abusing their power. Similarly, Cecilia proves this point by using Judge Bosco to illustrate the dangers of misusing power and how it affects others. In the novel Flawed, and the real world, it is shown that the misuse of

The book relates to this because people in the book knew that they could not defy the guild's rules, because they would be deemed flawed, and if they were deemed flawed their lives would change due to the guild’s rules to set up the flawed to make them have “Job restrictions, curfews, and travel restrictions” (38). The guild made these rules specifically to breed fear because if they had control over the lives of the flawed people then citizens who weren’t flawed not only would think that they were free since the guild isn’t specifically controlling them and because of that sense of freedom they would be frightened to disobey the rules set for them in order not to become captive to the guild’s control. The misuse of power to breed fear has been used multiple times during history like in the holocaust where the Jews “had curfews and job restrictions but if they broke those rules, they were sent to labor camps.” Identically, Germans replicate the guild since they used fear of labor camps to convince the Jews to abide by their unfair rules because it seemed better than going to labor camps where the chances they would be gravely injured or die increased. The Germans also replicated the guild by having control over the Jews who resemble the flawed since they had no control over their lives but unlike

This is seen in the book flawed, when THE GUILD takes children "from their flawed parents and locks {them} up in an institution for 18 years" (264). This causes the children to suffer because THE GUILD does not care about their well-being and uses the children to achieve its goals of creating law-abiding citizens that believe they are better than the flawed. Like the guild caused the children in the novel to suffer by using them to achieve their goals, North Korea also causes its citizens to suffer by manipulating their citizens and requiring “forced, uncompensated labor from a mass of its population.” This causes their citizens to suffer because they are being used to achieve the North Korean government’s dream of becoming a world superpower without getting paid for their difficult work, and without rest since they are systematically being used for labor by their own country. Although the citizens of North Korea and the F.A.B. children are parallel because they both are manipulated by their perspective governments; They are also different because the F.A.B. children are exploited to achieve THE GUILD’S goal for 18 years while the North Korean citizens are exploited for their government’s goal till they