Gregory of Tours Harsh

(A) I believe that them of both stories are that they both have a ruler in common who has no sypmathy for how they treat the slaves and serfs. In the first storie Rauching is a man of great pride who treated his slave with physical abuse and no human kindness. In the second story King Chilperic was a greedy man out to opress the people with tax rolls and imposed taxes. It is clear to me that both of the rulers in these stories are abusing their high power. (B) "...and straightway ordered a tree to be cut down. Then he ordered the trunk to be opened with wedges and hollowed out, and a hole to be made in the ground to the depth of three or four feet, and the trunk to be placed therein." This part stood out to me because as soon as i read it I had a feeling that the tree that was being cut down was going to be used for something bad. I find it sad that these slaves basically dug their own grave and not knowing that what they were doing was preparing them for their death. (B) I feel that in generated my idea of how sometimes we do not realize that what we are told to do and do often leads to no good. For example something as simple as my supervisor asking me to do something that is out of and then my manager seeing me not to the job that i am supposed to and being fired for it. (C) Some of the modern parallels that I see with both of these stories is that even know we have different authoritys with different powers who do have the ability to make us do what they want. It may not be as cruel as how it used to be but there are still many who abuse their power of athourity. For example there are many cops today who think that just because they are cops they have the power to make you do what they please for example baning someone from the mall because of something sillly like being abnoxiously loud (talking from experience). (D) Both stories can relate to this because they both are about those with high power treating the others with no respect or kindness and thinking that there is nothing wrong with it because they are rulers, no one stands above them is what they think so therefore there is no one to fear.