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<p>Sagar Patel
Prompt: Is conscience a more powerful motivator than money, fame, or power?</p>

<p>Essay:</p>

<pre><code> The conscience can indeed motivate one’s decisions more effectively than money, fame, or power can. Albany, from William Shakespeare’s King Lear, steps out of his crone due to his conscience. Madhu and Padma Allen, ex-co owners and CEO of Tenchodyne, let their conscience lead them to corruption. One’s conscience is a very powerful motivator of one’s actions.

    Albany did not let his wealth and authority get to him when he decided to give up his crown. He could not let his wife get away with killing her father. Having that problem on Albany’s mind led him to do what he needed to do. His conscience could not comprehend the fact that he would be indirectly killing his wife’s respected father and former king if he did not stop his wife’s plans. Despite all the money and authority he had, Albany decided to give his position up to his wife’s father, who deserved it the most. Money and power was not able to interfere in the path of Albany’s conscience when it came down to what to do.

    Similarly, Madhu and Padma’s conscience lead their motives too, but unfortunately, into the hands of corruption. Even though Technodyne, the company they owned, was generating millions and millions of profit each year, Madhu’s and Padma’s consciences told them that it was not enough. Eventually, they decided to try to satisfy their conscience’s hunger for money. Rapaciously, they let their conscience’s convince them that it was okay to launder hundreds of millions of dollars each year to themselves, just in order to appease their minds. Their conscience’s led them to their own downfall in a matter of years.

    The conscience is a very powerful tool in deciding what to do. In Albany’s case, he looked past his wealth and power in order to do what was right for the kind, and let his conscience motivate him towards the right path. However, the motivational power of one’s conscience can also lead themselves into corruption and devastation, as in Madhu’s and Padma’s situation. Undoubtedly, one’s conscience is a much more motivational instrument than that of money, power, and fame.

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