English Language · English Literature
In his famous sonnet 'Ozymandias', how does Percy Bysshe Shelley reflect Romantic skepticism toward political authority and human achievement?
- 1By arguing that authoritarian empires are bound to decay due to internal economic conflicts
- 2By emphasizing the ephemeral nature of worldly power and the ultimate futility of monumental human ambition✓
- 3By celebrating the cyclical rise and fall of great dynasties as necessary stages of social evolution
- 4By sympathetic portrayal of the tyrant ruler as a misunderstood tragic hero
Correct answer
By emphasizing the ephemeral nature of worldly power and the ultimate futility of monumental human ambition
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