"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

Throughout many ages, the people that have authority and money normally rule the state. Those people chosen to rule can sometimes bend the rules in there favor or to help there fellow friends in need. There is evidence in this case has been shown throughout history. In Hamlet, King Claudius states "Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." This is evidence enough to show that the authoritative figures aren't necessarily always sane.

In any age, people with money and power always tend to go a little crazy. Or they do things that wouldn't necessarily be seen as favorable if they werent so rich and powerful. For instance in Hamlet, Claudis who recieves the thrown after King Hamlet dies marries his dead brothers wife. If Claudis wasnt the newly crowned king, he would have been denied the right to marry her. To some of the people in this time, the thought of the dead kings wife marrying with such little time to grieve would have brought upon thoughts that the queen was power hungry and never truely loved there lost and beloved king. Yet it was all okay because they were the ones appointed to rule all the people including the ones who could deny them the right to marry. So they could have used there power to get what they want, but they didnt have to.

In any day of age, there are great people who arent always doing the right thing. For example, the watergate scandal is a good example of people with power using it in corrupted ways. Here they are trying to cover up something by hiding the true things that happened which could have put them in prison. These people were always thinking that it was just something they made up and not really true until they actually found evidence on it. But not enough to accuse anyone. So there goes another mad man with power who was once considered great. Another example, would be in the 911 accident. In this accident after everything happened and the United States started looking for the corrupted people who would think about killing, all of the people gave in and confessed except for husain. He thought that because he had power in his country that they wouldnt try to find him and give him the punishment he deserve. And look now we have a war going on. Yet no one is his country know exactly why. These few people are reasons that our society has decided to keep a watch on the great ones.

When it comes to keeping an eye on the great ones, I think that the prime example of societies not being kept up on would be in the State of California. It was projected that in February of this up coming year the state is going to run out of money. However if someone was actually keeping an eye on this, our state would have been able to find a way out of this predicament and we could have already have solved some of our issues. In shasta county alone we are building new bridges that don't have to be built. Like the one by airport road crossing the river. The bridge that is already there is perfectly suitable for travelers, so the new one is our county just trying to be flashy, which right now our state cant afford for our county's trying to be flashy and building unneccesary things. Our state should also start trying to devy up the money that goes towards mental health, education, special education, firefighters, police officers, and decide which is more important. If our state was being kept in balance and being watched closely then we wouldnt be having this problem right now.

In the end, the people with power should be watched upon very closely. They dont need to have the temptations on becoming mad or corrupt because once it happens they will never go back to the same before they were corrupt. Plus these people should be carefully watched. There spending adventures need to be on record and also all of the projects that they want to start should be approved by a higher authority or by a board. This would be a great way to keep everything sane.