Pride In Ozymandias

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My pride fell with my fortunes says William Shakespeare while explaining in one of his plays that the character was too prideful and lost everything he worked for. In the poem “Ozymandias” written by Percy Bysshe Shelley the poem explains a statue in the middle of the desert that has broken and no one sees it anymore. The statue was of a very prideful ruler who thought he was very powerful and mighty. The king thought he was better than any other king. The head that sits next to the two legs shows a frown which shows the emotions of the king and how serious he was. In comparison, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is about a young man named Edmond Dantes, who was a sailor that was sent to jail because he got a letter from Napoleon …show more content…

The Count and many other characters in The Count of Monte Cristo are very prideful and will do anything to not shame their family name, but they will try to shame to other peoples names. For example, when the Count through a party at his house in Auteuil. At the exact same house where Villefort and Madame Danglars had their affair. When the Count was showing everyone the house tour, he took them to the room where Madame Danglar gave birth to the baby and started telling them the exact story of what happened to Villefort and Madame Danglars almost telling everyone it was real and who it happened to. The Count uses great imagery in explaining the room “...look at those somber, blood colored hanging; and those two faded portraits...”(Dumas 260). The Count is using clear details to describe what happened that day when the baby was born and that room doesn’t look like it has changed. While in “Ozymandias” the details the traveler gives describe what the statue looks like and where it is. “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.”(line 2,3). These details tell you that that the statue only has legs with no upper body attached. Saying that is in the desert also tells you that the statue probably isn’t around anything else and is in the middle of nothing. Both pieces of the text evidence help you image and describes what the object looks

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