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What do you think is the political message of "ozymandias"?

a. no dictator can ever truly rule absolutely.
b. it is better to live without any kind of government.
c. people should rule their country democratically.
d. those who rule should do so with kindness and compassion?

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Option a is the right answer.
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The correct answer is A. The political message of "Ozymandias" is that no dictator can ever truly rule absolutely.

Ozymandias is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published on January 11, 1818, and is probably the most famous poem by the romantic poet, and perhaps one of the clearest examples of the political philosophy underlying his literary movement.

Ozymandias was an alias of Ramses the Great, pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt.

The central theme of "Ozymandias" is the inevitable decline of all the leaders and empires that these build no matter how powerful they were in their time

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