Legitimate Power

By: Jocelynn, Kaitlyn, Danika, Nia

How Kincaid expresses legitimate power
“my history, my geography, and reduce them and everything they have ever known
to figurines as evidence that I was in divine favor, what if all this was in my power?
Could I resist it? No one ever has.”(p.1011)

“I had never seen England, really seen it, I had only met a representative, seen a
picture, read books, memorized its history. I had never set foot, my own foot, in
it.”(p.1010)

“This view, though — the naming of the kings, their deeds, their disappointments —
was the vivid view, the forceful view. There were other views, subtler ones,
softer, almost not there — but these were the ones that made the most lasting
impression on me, these were the ones that made me really feel like nothing. “
(p.1008)
 Orwell suggestion about the idea of
legitimate power
“As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe
to do so”(p.1100)

“But at that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me. It was an
immense crowd, two thousand at the least and growing every minute. It blocked the
road for a long distance on either side.”(p.1103)
 Emerson suggestion about the idea of
legitimate power
“He who would gather immortal palms must not he hindered by the name of
goodness, but must explore if it he goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the
integrity of your own mind” (Emerson).

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live
after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness the independence of solitude” (Emerson).

“To be great is to be misunderstood” (Emerson).

 Thoreau suggestion about the idea of
legitimate power
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when
I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” (Thoreau, 296)

“Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud
and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance,
that alluvion which covers the globe… till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in
place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin,
having a point d’appui” (Thoreau, 300)
 Twain’s argument about the idea of
legitimate power
“It is our nature to conform;it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What
is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval. We all have to bow to that;
there are no exceptions.” (Twain 800)

“A person of vast consequences can introduce any kind of novelty in dress and the
general world will presently adopt it —” (Twain 800)

“We are creatures of outside influences; as a rule we do not think, we only

Imitate.” (Twain 801)