Opportunism In All The Kings Men

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All the King’s Men was shallowly construed by critics as an exclusively political novel when initially published. After all, Robert Warren clearly expresses his dissatisfaction with the rampant corruption in the Deep South by basing Willie Stark on the ruthless Louisiana governor Huey P. Long. The critics seized the novel for its political commentary and extrapolated political sentiments from the novel to predict Warren’s own beliefs. Increasingly however, critics now realize that the novel’s focus on Jack Burden, a mere journalist in the midst of a political behemoth, explains how the authorial intent is not simply to offer political insight, but more importantly to comment on Warren’s own philosophical conjecturing through Jack, Adam, and Willie. The novel is now deservingly being analyzed rigorously for its philosophical underpinnings including the thematic battle between idealism and opportunism, and for its insightful commentary on hard determinism, free will, idealism, and a meaning in life.

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