Power Corrupts It has been said that power corrupts absolutely, and absolute power is kind of neat. Irony regularly appears, ironically, in the strangest of places. The mere fact that one of the most corrupting forces on this planet is also one of the most intriguing displays that irony is joke meant for God. The tobacco lobbyist that dies of lung cancer, The gay activist that catches AIDS, and, my favorite of all, the pro-choice …showed first 75 words of 624 total…

…showed last 75 words of 624 total…power makes him hungrier for more. His moral foundation crumbles with every opportunity to advance himself. He is not the first person to allow power to corrupt him. Nor will he be the last. Macbeth will forever be remembered as a weak-minded king who had no righteous bones in his body. He was not always such, but his ambition drove him there. Power ravaged Macbeth like heroine does to an addict, leaving only a corpse.