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Basically, the article called, With Power Comes a Selfish Point of View, much explains exactly what happens to the best of people when blessed with overwhelming power. Like in a test, volunteers were told to draw an E on their foreheads. People who felt they had power drew the E backwards, as if drawing and looking at the E internally. Ones who felt powerless drew the E so anyone could read it correctly. This was meant to show that when placed with power, one may lose insight of what it may be like to see things from anothers’ view.

This article showed a connection to Frederick Douglas because one of his mistresses, Mrs. Auld, had been so nice when Frederick arrived, but as she was given power over him, her heart slowly turned cold. On the top of page 52, it clearly says, and I quote, “Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamb-like disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness.”Douglas claims that when given power one may go mad (or something close to that) with it. Which, leads back to the article and the similarities.