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Trapped in the WebIn the novel, All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren, the reference works live out the consequences of decisions made in their pasts. Each character deals with the past in a different way. It costs some relationships. It costs some their careers. It even costs some their lives. I believe that Cass Mastern says it best when he says &8220&8230the world is like an enormous spider web and if you and if you touch it, however lightly, at any point the vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter and the drowsy spider feels the iciness and is drowsy no more but springs out to fling the gossamer coils about you who have touched the web and then injects the black, numbing poison chthonian your hide(188-189). I feel that this quote does an excellent job of capturing the theme of this novel.Jack Burden and Judge Montague Irwin defiantly feel the effects of the spider. Jack Burden, at the indicate of Governor Willie Stark, dug up dirt on Judge Irwin. Jack gets in over his head when he finds more than he wanted to make out about Judge Irwin. That&8217s when everything does upside-down, and the spider gets them. The Judge kills himself, which affected many people. One of the people that it affected was Jack. Jack found out that the Judge was his biological father and never had the chance to have his first true &8220father son talk. Even though Jacks goals from the beginning were to discover trut...