Comparing Viva La Vida 'And The Count Of Monte Cristo'

“Power” is a song that was released in Kanye West’s 2010 album called “My Beautiful Dark Twister Fantasy.” This particular song is one of my favorite songs of all times because it gives me a combination of eustress and distress as well. The song is extremely upbeat, which often leads me to dance and smile while singing the lyrics. In addition, the first verse of this song empowers me because it states that the singer is living in the 21st century trying to live his life and impact society bigger than anyone. The hook of this song also plays a major role in why it’s song inspiring to me because it speaks about having power and one must take advantage of the time to reach success. The beat, the first verse, and the hook

The book and movie are completely different. It 's like comparing apples and oranges. (I 'm assuming that you used the newest version with Guy Pierce). The biggest difference is probably the ommision of Haydee and Maximillien and Valentine (three of the main character) and the addition of Jacapo. Jacapo does is in the book, but he is never a large character.

Power is defined as the possession of control or command over people and events. In Shakespeare’s play ‘King Richard III’, the centrality of power is communicated through characters and their pursuit for power while in ‘Looking for Richard’, Al Pacino’s docudrama exploring Richard as a character, his struggle for power is portrayed as well as Pacino’s struggle as he produces

The Count of Monte Cristo and the movie, “The Count of Monte Cristo” were similar but more different. The movie changes and adds events that the book to ways they would have liked the book to be. The movie makers like to put twist in the book not only so it is more interesting, but also to make to make the story shorter to fit into the movie. The movie likes to change characters to name a few: Fernand Mondego, Edmond Dantes, Danglar, Mercedes, and Abbe Faria.

With being able to access a huge amount of power. In the song they mention,’’I see the strings that control the system.I can do anything with no assistance.’’ With this, the narrator knows things that others may not know and want to use it to their advantage.In another example.’’Driving and I won’t stop. And it feels good to be alive and on top.” The narrator likes the feeling of power and being above everyone else. They won’t stop until they get what they want,power.Not having it yet gives them the time to think about what they would do with it.Like when they say,’’I can end the planet in a holocaust’’.They create plans for what they could do with that much

“The way to have power is to embrace it.” - unknown The Count of Monte Cristo and the song “Viva la Vida” by coldplay both talk about power and how it can be lost. In the Count of Monte Cristo and “Viva la Vida”, the writer's use of diction portrays that power can be embraced.

King Creon demands actions to be taken; however, if they are not followed, there will be consequences. Control is illustrated since the king has the power to perform any type of action. In addition, omnipotence can be seen by people’s views

The resistance of church represents rebelling against order and organization in a society. The wild can represent the city here, and the citizens are not attesting to the potential change that the church can have on its city. This takes power from the church to affect the city. Therefore, based on this song, without acknowledgement, power is insignificant.

Universal human nature is feelings and behaviors shared by all of humankind. In The Count of Monte Cristo and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the authors use tone and metaphors to display a theme of universal human nature.

The term of power, that people have for other person or things. Power means to have the capacity to influence others. In these three poems, we can see how power is describe and interpreted differently. In the poem of My Papa’s Waltz, we can see the power that the father has for his son and wife, when he dances with his son to get him to bed while he is cluttering the entire kitchen and the wife don’t say anything. Then on the second story of The Emperor of Ice Cream we can see that it’s a different kind of power.

the traits of a “good king”. He was a warrior with extraordinary abilities which made him seem

This song also highlights how it is lonely at the top and when you do have this much power it gets out of hand. In Viva la Vida and The Count of Monte Cristo both the author and songwriter use Imagery and diction to illustrate the idea that power in the hands of the broken can lead to corruption.

“I used to rule the world” (line 1), these words of the poem Viva La Vida describe of a fallen king who once ruled almost every piece of land the world had. The song Viva La Vida is a king that once ruled the world but, consequently lost his pride and power. The book, The Scarlet Pimpernel, is about the French revolution and, ordinarily how the people took over the aristocrats. In Viva La Vida and The Scarlet Pimpernel, each author uses personification to portray the idea that taking too much pride in yourself or overestimating yourself can lead to fatal consequences.

David Mason’s poem, “Song of Powers” acts as an allegory using the simple game of rock, paper, scissors to convey a deeper, darker message. To convey the loneliness that comes from having too much power, the speaker uses tone shifts, personifies the objects in the game and employs metaphors.

This article focus on the definition of power what is power, examining the phenomenon of powerful and the powerless. This will help my essay in explaining that power is not owned, one can’t simply own power but it is rather given.