Power can be demonstrated in many ways essay

” That passage from the book describes Vermeer and Greet relationship in the beginning of the book. In the beginning of the book Greet was afraid to conversant with Vermeer, but later in he book they started to spend most of their day together. Paintings were one of the aspects that helped Vermeer gain power over Greet. Greet wanting to know more about his paintings she started to help him and became his assistant. Pig 103 “ it became harder to hide what I was doing when he wanted me to help him make the paints”.

Once Vermeer knew that Greet had potential in helping him, he used her when he wanted. Greet not being able to say “ NO” to Vermeer her master was no help. You can tell from the way Greet acts with her master that he had so much power ever her and her mind causing her to say yes to everything he asked of her even if it would cause problems in the near future. L hated to question or disobey him-he was my master. ” Greet had many other chores to do but she would sacrifice her work to do what the master asked of her. Vermeer knowing that she would never say no made him take advantage of her.

There were plenty more examples of how Vermeer had power over Greet and her morals but also her physical body. The book makes the reader realize how someone so precious can quickly lose their morals and cleanliness because they had lost their sight and became blinded because of a certain individual. Greets and Vermeer relationship had to pass through power struggles. Who had power over whom. By the end of the book Greet becomes Vermeer main subject-The power Vermeer had over Greet got him what he wanted from her, though a painting as one thing he wanted from her, there were other things that caused Vermeer and Greet to have such a close relationship.