Understanding Power

To maintain control, you must have power. I think that this statement is legitimate because in England during the Middle Ages, King William would've had no chance of staying king without control. I think this because none of the people in England really liked him and would have been happy to take his crown away due to the fact that he was a foreign king and he replaced all of the English lords and dukes with Normans. To keep his royalty, King William built Motte and Bailey Castles all over the country so that he could intimidate people around England and also keep an eye out on them. That is an example of someone that maintained control by having power.

I think that another example of a leader that has maintain his/her control with power is Hitler. After he was voted as the Fuhrer of Germany and started killing Jews, he used false propaganda to keep control. For example, in 'The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas' movie when Bruno's father was shown a propaganda video of what the Nazis were showing people about the concentration camps. Hitler made the video to make the concentration camps seem like a pleasant and enjoyable place to live really when he was killing masses of people daily. I feel that Hitler is a modern example of someone using their power to keep control.