Essay on greed for wealth and power is the chief villian of our woes
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Greed for wealth and power is evilist.
People say that money is the root of all evil. In the short story "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Braddock Washington acquires a frightening sense of power along with his fortunes. He represents an exact image of how money causes people to become greedy, selfish, and cruel.
No one human being is perfect and sometimes we are caught up or overwhelmed in our emotions. Some individuals will sacrifice anything for money and power. In the story, Braddock Washington is described to be the richest man in the world. He inherited a diamond mountain from his father, Fitz-Norman Washington. Later he enlisted his brother to help direct his slaves, but with selfishly wicked motivation, "he was compelled, due to a series of unfortunate complications, to murder his brother, whose unfortunate habit of drinking himself into an indiscreet stupor had several times endangered their safety" (194). He went as far to kill his own flesh and blood to save his money and power.
People wonder how a human would change when his/her surroundings change. Will they change for the better or worse. Will they still be willing to go out of their way to help those how are around them. John Steinbeck shows us in The Grapes of Wrath how a person can change when they have nothing. He shows us how when people are desperate, they would do anything to further themselves and only.