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Essay On Uneasy lays the head that wears the crown
This proverb explains that the person who wears the crown feels very uneasy because has to be liable for all responsibilities, to face the difficulties and has to remove them. Though he wears the decorated crown, he is worried by the countless problems and anxieties. While ordinary people are carefree and mentally peaceful and at ease, they are always uneasy. Only the wearer knows how uneasy he feels on wearing the crown. This is because the crown carries the responsibilities of proper governance and the expectations of a very large number of people and it is very hard to satisfy all the expectations of the people. In fact the crown symbolizes the responsibilities laid over a man which he is expected to fulfill.
Francis Bacon says that Men in great places are thrice servants – servants of the state, servants of fame and servants of business. So men in power are not happy because of countless anxieties and problems. There is a story beyond the origin of this proverb. Once in the Middle East country there was a king who was very popular among his subjects and he was liked by all his country men. But one of his ministers was always jealous of him. He wanted to rule the kingdom on his own. The King came to know of this and he wanted to teach his minister a lesson. He called the Minister and asked him to rule the country for a week. The minister was very happy and so he organized a dinner. On the day of the dinner the minister sat at the kings table and started to eat. There he found a sword suspended above his head by a very thin piece of hair. The minister was very nervous and he could enjoy the dinner. By the end of the dinner he gave the crown back to the king and said that now he understood the difficulties in ruling the country.