This paper reviews and analyzes the characters in All the King's Men. Between Albert Camus' "Life is Absurd," and Viktor Frankl's "The Human Search for Meaning : Reflections on Auschwitz" (both published in "The Moral Life" collection of essays edited by Louis P. Pojman), the first directly relates to the principal theme of " All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren. That principal theme was evolved by the shady character, Jack Burden, the hatchet man of a powerful and vindictive governor Willie Stark in Warren's novel. Jack concluded that a human being is not responsible for the consequences of his actions in the face of universal chaos and the imperious control of time, towards which he is powerless.