... unlimited rule. Individuals strive to achieve absolute power during their lifetime. Furthermore as they do so, previous benevolent hopes and dreams adjust to the malignant and treacherous human nature. Works of literatures such as A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Animal Farm by George Orwell illustrate this pattern of corruption. In A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is one of ... the cycle, as targets of tyranny gain more power and control, the dreaded abuses of power are only doomed to repeat once again. Another example illustrating Lord Canton's quotation is Animal Farm ...

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