Category: Ozymandias

Throughout both Ozymandias and London, the poets portray power through the corruption of both the Egyptian tyrant Ozymandias, and the most wealthy groups of society in Victorian London such as the government, monarchy and the church. Shelley uses Ozymandiass corruptive nature to highlight how his rule over his empire, led to him becoming an arrogant…

Power is presented in Ozymandias by a kings statue. The statue says a lot about Rameses II the king, his attitude, and how he ruled. Firstly, the phrase vast and trunkless suggests the statue was large but trunkless meaning that its without a body. This phrase shows that even without the body the legs alone…

Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is considered by many to be one of the greatest comics ever written as it transformed the entire comic book world. It not only criticizes comics and superheroes, but it in fact deconstructs the entire myth of the superhero. The central question that Moore and Gibbons challenge readers…

The theme of power is explored in these two sonnets by contrasting the insignificance of human power in the face of Gods power. In Ozymandias, Gods power is symbolised as a time to emphasise the fragility of human power in comparison with God. The sonnet is told from the perspective of a traveller who tells…

Power is presented in Ozymandias as one like a dictatorship. For example, important figures or people in power are usually celebrated through statues and monuments. In Ozymandias, the state of the statue can symbolise the change in power. For example, when Ozymandias was in power it is suggested that he was controlling and cruel. This…

How Power is presented in Ozymandias and London are very similar but there are some anomalies. For example the way both poems are structured. In London, there are paragraphs. Four in fact. I suggest that this has to do with how power in William Blake’s time was controlled. The space between the paragraphs symbolises the…

Percy Bysshe Shelley represents throughout the entirety of the poem that eventually power won’t amount to anything and will be forgotten or to have no importance. All that remains of the statue are two vast stone legs standing upright and a head half-buried in sand, along with a boastful inscription describing the ruler as the…

In Ozymandias and London shows us that nature is the most powerful thing and that humans can not control it. The statue in Ozymandias shows the importance of human power and how we as humans thing we can dominate nature. This can be portrayed in the quote near them, on the sand half sunk, a…