Comparing Power in Cask of Amontillado, Rappaccinis Daughter, and Bart

Power in Poes Cask of Amontillado, Hawthornes Rappaccinis Daughter, Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener, Phelps Angel all over the Right Shoulder and Childs The QuadroonIn Poes The Cask of Amontillado Montressor seeks his revenge (for an imagined eat upense) on Fortunado. He manipulates Fortunado into beliving that he is a friend and that they are going through the crypt. He uses Fortunados weak point --his love of alcohol-- against him. He creates the illusion of concern by insisting that they turn around to save poor Fortunados health. Montressor manipulates the entire spotlight from beginning to end. His greatest achievement is that Fortunado would know what was happening to him by anxious(p) a slow death and more importantly, he would know who was puke the elaborate plan for his death. Montressor (who is mentally unstable) is a corrupt man who thrives off of the occasion he has (had) over Fortunado. In Hawthornes Rappaccinis Daughter we find devil instances of a power strug gle and manipulation. The Scientist has used his daughter in an data-based attempt to give her a one-of-a-kind gift. Failing in his attempt he has in a sense cursed his daughter. He has taken external her power to choose her own life--she is at the mercy of her gift and is twinge the results of his ambition. Baglioni uses Giovanni in a different way. He uses Giovanni to gain power over Rappaccini. He manipulates Giovanni into thinking that Rappaccini is corrupt and that Beatrice can be saved by his antidote. Rappaccini is corrupt because he uses his daughter to practice his scientific experiments. If his intention to enable her with a gift was indeed genuine then he may not be as wicked as Baglioni. Baglionis intentions were purely evil. He man... ... the characters in this story are all manipulated and repressed by the power of the favorable code of the time regarding quadroons. Everything in the story hinges not however on the social pressures, but also on the fragility of l ove. She belives that he will love her (even though he is not legally hold in to her) and together they could face the injustice of the world or merely brood from it. Due to his ambition, he betrays her and leaves her and his daughter. He does no service to either of the cardinal women--his common-law wife by breaking her heart and leaving her to pull off with a child, the child left without a father and a social outcast, and his new wife by marrying her just for the social and economic military strength it would bring him and especially since she learns that he is still in love with the other(a) woman. The victims in this story are manipulated by one mans ambition.