Power and Conflict comparison guide (copy)
Ozymandius and My Last Duchess
Corrupting power of humankind, power as a vehicle for exploitation
Pride and hubris acting as a downfall, aristocracy and giving an arrogance over all creation including mortality (MLD) and nature (Ozy)
Relation of the speaker to a God like entity or power over humanity and nature
“Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse” - Neptune being a Greek God and therefore something so obviously above the inhuman inferior that is a “seahorse”
“My name is Ozymandius, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” - the biblical allusion to God being the King of Kings shows a complete insanity of mind in relation to Ozy’s power which has ultimately been forgotten
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name” and “My name is Ozymandius"
Painting (“that’s my last Duchess painted on the wall”) compared to a statue (“legs of stone / Stand in the desert”)