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AQA English Literature power and conflict example essay. Ozymandias and My last duchess
AQA English Literature power and conflict example essay. Grade 7+ comparing Ozymandias and My last duchess.
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GCSE AQA ENGLISH LITERATUREPOEMS
POWER AND CONFLICT
EXAMPLE ESSAY GRADE 7+
COMPARING THE EFFECTS OF POWER IN
OZYMANDIAS AND ONE OTHER POEM YOU
STUDIED IN THE POWER AND CONFLICT SECTION.
Exemplar response.
Both Ozymandias and My Last Duchess illustrate the effects of power and how
it corrupts and eat away at people’s minds. Shelley depicts Ozymandias’ ‘sneer
of cold command’ as if to proclaim that he is a cruel and heartless tyrant, only
infatuated with his own prowess and the immortality it will bring. Similarly, the
Duke in My Last Duchess is engrossed with his own power and status. Although
the monologue is supposed to replicate a conversation, there is no opportunity
for his listener to speak- further highlighting the great power imbalance
present. Moreover, Browning writes the monologue to exhibit the Duke’s self-
obsession and that he is simply not interested in anyone else’s views other than
his own.
The Tyrant, heavily inspired by Ramses II, might have ‘cold command’ of his
‘lands’, just like how the Duke ‘gave commands’. Both poets are concerned with
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