Power was a major factor when dealing with countries and leaders, expanding countries' borders and finding new lands through exploitation. Power is used to show control and make progress in their countries. Countries create ideas of what humanity should be and when the idea of ​​power consumes the mind, to the point where the idea becomes more important than human beings. What will happen when power becomes a god to be worshiped and needs sacrifices? In the books Heart of Darkness and The Gods Will Have Blood he demonstrates what power can do to people and countries. Power enslaves people and corrupts man; even kind and compassionate ones can change. Once a person has come to power, they can become consumed and corrupted with the need to respond to and satisfy their own needs. Satisfaction of need can be shown in many ways, but the books show the ideas of power through imperialism, revolution, and the reign of terror that took place in France, which left many people hungry and poor. Anatole France God's Will Have Blood is about the final struggle for power of the French Revolution is taking over the French. The aristocrats have been overthrown and the poor struggle for food as they face famine. The cities are swept by fear and hunger, while a young revolutionary artist named Gamelin is appointed magistrate and given the power of life and death over the citizens of France. Power that is used recklessly because of his intense idealism and single-mindedness; creating an overwhelming movement of violence and a reign of terror, spanning all of Russia and Europe. Porter's article states France's views and position on the French Revolution. Frances neither expects nor wants the Republic to make men pure. Making these d... middle of paper... you. Which can often get lost and trapped in the corruption that surrounds them. Often a person must go on a journey into the darkness and see the harms of power. Even if the goals of the country and the use of power were to bring a bigger and better economy and more trade to boost the economy or bring democracy and equality to a country. Power, in its best intentions, can lead to terror, evil and imperialism. Work cited France, Anatole. The gods will have blood. London: Penguin, 2004. Print.Conrad, Joseph. The heart of darkness. New York: Dover, 1902. Print.West, Roger. "Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Explicator 50.4 (1992): 222. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web.Dennis,Porter.“Anatole France and the liberalism of resignation.”Journal of the history of ideas, vol. 33, No. 1 (January - March 1972), pp. 101-114.University of Pennsylvania Press.Web.