Robert Penn Warren’s all the king’s Men : a portrait of a Southern American Demagogue’s loss of paradise

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The research discusses a very important issue that becomes a phenomenon in many parts of the world nowadays .

Does politics have an adverse impact on politicians is a question many writers raise but is rarely treated in literary works .

Robert Penn Warren discusses this point in his novel , All the King's Men in which he shows how his hero , Willie Stark , a Southern American politician who comes down with demagogy, one outcome of flawed oppressive dictatorial system .Many politicians fall victims to such system and change their skins as they come to use complete power, and amoral means and deals to face strongly all other political opponents to gain absolute control which leads in one way or another to the unhonorable death of most of them at the hands of the state revolters .