What is the central idea of this excerpt?
1: the power of love
2: the value of peace
3: the ruthlessness of power
4: the importance of compromise
Answer: 3: the ruthlessness of power
The main thought, which runs through the play, is that power in its pursuit is self-destructive and detrimental to a society’s moral standards. The quotes examine how a man’s morality is influenced by power, and how he handles any conflict. They decry the giving in to political expediency and ethics for the sake of political gains, declare the ills that arise with the treating of justice as the price of peace, and express their remorse for what self-serving abuses of power have built which is a moral relativism. Consequently, the fiction of power and exercise thereof is assigned to undermine principles and foster an environment, where an integrated fabric of society would be torn. Only further repression is to be expected.
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