'Men and Women are Merely Players' by Robert Greene is an excerpt from the book, 'The 48 Laws of Power'. Robert Greene is an American author was born on 14 May 1959 in Los Angeles, California. He is from a Jewish Family. He graduated from University of Winconsin-Madison with a B.A in classical studies. He started his career as an editor and writer for several magazines and as Hollywood movie writer. In 1998, he managed to published his first book, 'The 48 Laws of Power' that immediately successful and selling more than 1 million copies in the US.
This article is about human characters that has different roles to perform in daily life. The article also tells about the exposition as human being is merely players. The excerpt informed that every human bring role through social ideals. But if human play the role too strictly, they will manipulate by people who are not so foolish.
This world is a place where human are necessary to being democratic, fair and well mannered. However, every human was not courage to play the role too strictly because it can be manipulated by others. Some might think that they are in comfortable stage of refinement but the fact is they at underneath that full of envy, lust and dark emotions. Then, in order to attain the heights of power, people can master on arts of indirection, learning to seduce, charm, deceive and subtly out maneuver opponents and can make others bend to it will.
Next, people who claim not to involve can be classified as naivete that can bring to effectiveness of deceit and even genuine naivete cannot hidden from snares. In addition, genuine people might be playing for power and often horribly effective on something since those people does not hindered by reflection.
