Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Power, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Power and Violence
Corruption
Gender Reversals and Sexism
Stories, History, and Perspective
Religion and Manipulation
Revolution and Social Change
Summary
Analysis
Mother Eve speaks to a crowd, calling upon America, the land where she was born, to join Bessapara in the struggle against the North. She asks them not to watch while “innocent women are slaughtered and while freedom is destroyed.” Within the convent walls, Eve warns that the apocalypse is near and only the righteous will be saved, so that she can call the world to a new order. She says that she will build an ark for them.
Eve carries out her plan as the plot veers towards global warfare. She is actively manipulating her followers to influence global politics and bring catastrophe upon the world. This connects her back to the king in 1 Samuel 8, since Eve is being upheld despite the fact that she is actively working against society’s interests as a whole.
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