Megalomania

According to wikipedia megalomania is “an obsession with power and wealth, and a passion for grand schemes.” In other words it is simply a person who is obsessed with their own power. Upon further research I saw that megalomania is actually a psychological disorder. It makes sense, it being an “obsession” with power and wealth. People with this psychological disorder unnaturally want to be in control of everything and I can connect this to Daniel Slater in American Spy. In the novel Slater is a very greedy individual who manipulates people for his own benefit. It’s clearly seen that Slater enjoys being above people and being in control of everything as he was very controlling towards Helene and others around him.

Ideology

According to the Wikipedia ideology is “a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or groups of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which ‘practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones.’” To put it simply, ideology is a set of opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual. Some examples of political ideologies are communism, socialism, and capitalism, democracy, liberalism, as well as conservatism. An ideology in American Spy is that democracy should be spread across the world and communism should be eliminated.