“When the gap between the ideal and the real becomes too wide, the system breaks the down,” (Barbara Tuchman). What does it mean to be ideal, or to be real? Why must the gap between them be fine or the system will break? In Barbara Tuchman’s quote, she refers to the “ideal” as the rich, and the “real” as the poor of a society. This quote is accurate because people of a union must work together as a whole in order to achieve the best for their society, or else they will fall apart, and this can be proven based on past events, such as the Black Death, Spain in the 1400s, and the decline of fedual lords. The Black Death had caused a deadlock amidst the government and peasants, which lead to a severe famine. To be precise, peasants who
