An example of this is his lack of any legitimate reasons for killing King Duncan and obtaining the throne except for his own ambition and greed to become king. The prophecies that Macbeth receives from the witches seem so true that he relies on the words of these predictions alone, instead of taking action himself to secure the works of the prophecies. Macbeth let his ambition blind him; as did the ruler in “Ozymandias”. Another consequence of ambition is loneliness. Ozymandias and Macbeth had so much ambition that they put themselves above all of their peers and former supporters.
Mankind became fearful of God and challenged His almighty authority by creating a tower believed by many to reach Heaven. In doing so, God (a jealous God) became infuriated at His creation and smote the Mesopotamians by altering the transparency of one language into multiple tongues. This generated much fear, confusion, and chaos amongst the people and definitively thwarted the construction of the tower. The Confusion of Tongues Excessive arrogance and pride is undoubtedly a weakness because it severs logic and reason from the human intellect, thus facilitating ignorance. Reasonably, the tower could not reach the ‘heavens’ because we are told heaven is a theological/spiritual realm that exists in a metaphysical parallel dimension, and not part of the physical world.
The use of "sacred" together with the support of the church show that Henry is a greatly powerful and respected man. Furthermore , the character who says this is a powerful a man himself which emphasises Henry's level of authority. This is also the case in Julius Caesar with Caesar's relationship with Antony.In both cases Shakespeare's presentation of power establishes a firm base for means of corruption. Firstly, Shakespeare presents power as being corrupting in Henry V. This can be seen in Act 4 Scene 7 when Henry says,' Then every soldier kill his prisoners.' This is against the code of conduct and is a change from the chivalrous King seen at the beginning of the play.
In my opinion, dramatic irony was added because Creon is slightly arrogant character. I predicted that he would be disappointed in him and that he will get what he deserves for being so evil to the people of his country. Another example is when Creon finds out that Antigone disobeyed his law. King Creon got so angry when the Choragus said, “I have been wondering, King: can it be that the gods have done this” (1077). The Choragus provides
The statement, “And when a man seriously reflects on the idolatrous homage which is paid to the persons of kings he need not wonder, that the Almighty, ever jealous of his honor, should disapprove of a form of government which so impiously invades the prerogative of heaven” (Paine 5) reveals the idea of the colonists’ morals. Paine states that if people are worshiping a king it is a sin, because it would be defying God since he should be the only ruler and one to idolize. God would be furious with the colonists because they are disobeying him. This would make the colonists fearful of not being loyal to God which would result in them disliking the idea of a king. Since a major part of the colonists’ lifestyle is religion, this is an effective technique because people do not want to defy God.
A proud, military country which was ordered to disarm and hand back hard fought land. The fourteen points were unfair and instead of bringing peace, it caused tensions on both sides. The League of Nations was also a failure. Lack of support from important countries such as the USA, Germany and Russia, and their finances, caused it to collapse. Its actions and warnings were useless, the restriction of trade would affect innocent countries at the same time.
This led to Russia being in the control of the German Alexandria, who was hated by the Russian people because of her inability to speak Russian, her reliance on Grigory Rasputin, a mystic who claimed to heal her son, her antisocial, depressed attitude and a general political incompetence to rival Nicholas’s. This was a terrible mistake because it broke the faith of the people, and setting them against their leaders, which would result in them conspiring to bring down the tsardom. This last mistake of Nicholas II turned the people against him, his dynasty, and his tsardom, and the people reacted by causing the downfall of the Romanov
In the end, this is exactly what Perseus did, to complete his quest. However, in the process many lives were lost and many people harmfully affected as a result. The actions of the gods are to blame for the unfortunate outcomes of Perseus’s expedition. As seen in this example, the gods are prone to abuse their colossal power. They misuse their gifts for their own selfish purposes, in this case, to regain the praise and worship from mankind, after it was stripped from them for the ironic reason of the humans being mistreated by the gods.
They often committed a myriad of staggering sins and believed they were masters of perpetuity. They deviated from faith, and moved heaven and earth for their self-contentment, fulfillment of their lustful desires and attaining happiness and peace of mind and unwarily persisted not keeping in mind any future consequences which they would have to bear the brunt of and could even lead to their own bitter end. We can take examples of powerful rulers such as Sultan Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire and Asoka who carried on committing ruinous deeds and inhumanities not caring for their consequences and were absolutely corrupt people from within. Sultan Suleiman I executed his own son, heir to the throne, himself and Asoka brutally and mercilessly slaughtered innocent men, women and children in his world
Although Gilgamesh was supernatural and divine in body and mind, he reigned over his kingdom as a cruel tyrant. He lorded over his subjects, raping any woman he liked, whether she was the daughter of a nobleman or the wife of one of his warriors. He accomplished his construction projects with inhumane forced labor, with the rest of his exhausted subjects suffering under his oppression. Soon, his subjects had had enough of his savage authoritarian rule and called out to the sky god, Anu, for help. In response, Anu told, the goddess of creation, Aruru, to make a being, equivalent by strength to Gilgamesh, to stop him.