Which piece of evidence best supports the theme that
power can corrupt people?
"lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / whereto the
climber-upward turns his face"
"scorning the base degrees / by which he did ascend"
o. "i have not known when his affections swayed / more
than his reason"
"the quarrel / will bear no colour for the thing he is"

The lines that best support the theme that power can corrupt people is:

"scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend"

Explanation:

In “William Shakespeare's”, "Julius Caesar", Brutus says these lines that which show his dilemma that whether he should support Caesar or not. He said that once ambitious people get what they want, they turn their back to others who helped them to achieve their goal. They act as humble people but then reject the ones who helped them to gain that goal. The greed of power makes them blind and they only do things for themselves. He was pointing at Caesar in these lines that once he would get power, it would be bad for Rome.

edmund spenser and john bunyan also influenced hawthorne. : )

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