Law 25: Re-Create Yourself

The 48 Laws Of Power Summary Series

Judgement

“Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define it for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions — your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.”

Observance Of The Law II

In 1831 a young woman named Aurore Dupin Dudevant left her husband and family to move to Paris. She wanted to be a writer; marriage, she felt, was worse then prison. Soon after Dudevant had to confront harsh realities. That to have any degree of freedom in Paris you had to have money. For a women, money could only come through marriage or prostitution.