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Ozymandias - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The artists work is mocking the king, wanted to show him for who he was and portray him for his arrogance and selfishness
    - - sneer indicates hes judging the people and looking down on them because of all the power that he is. cold command tells us that hes brutal he has no mercy and only cares about himself
  - - - arrogant , hes essentially saying he is the most powerful and all the other kings are inferior, shows his selfishness as he sees himself as superior and the best. Ironic as now he is powerless.
    - - The statue is in a far away land, has no effect or power on anyone it is just there. Shows how insignificant and powerless it has become. The leader had tried so hard to extend his power but eventually he came out with nothing. And you could say if he had been nicer and less selfish things could of been different.
  - - - its fairly irrelevant and is only really known by travellers and people who are interested, It's in Egypt which is seen as a failed empire and became unimportant with a loss of influence and power.
    - - irony, a king who thought he was all this and was a powerful figure and try to present all this greatness through his statue in the end is left by a forgotten, destroyed and irrelevant.
- - - - He feels proud of this piece of art, painting that he has on the wall, he feels like its his possession and he has gained a sense of pride from that.
    - - shows he only cares about his reputation, values his name over her, thinks she is ruining his family name.
    - - suggests he sees himself as god-like, shows that the Duke is extremely materialistic, through the statue it shows he is arrogant as he sees himself as more valuable than anything available to common man.