Creative Writing: Ramesses

“…dragged from the house on his knees. His face was bloody and when he tried to speak he cried with pain.”

In order to observe a leader’s rise to power it is vital to understand their upbringing and early life. Like a lot of kings, queens, and other monarchs, Ramesses inherited the

The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf touches on the vice of pride, and is instilled in the main character, Beowulf, the great and mighty warrior. His boasting and arrogance when first dropping anchor at Heorot transitions throughout the poem, and, in contrast with his ideal kingsmanship, motivates him to accomplish and overcome the many challenges he faces as an epic hero. The contrast of his absent humility in the rise and fall of the story help promote the progression of the story, through its different purposes. Beowulf, when first landing upon Hrothgar’s kingdom, boasts, which does not go unchallenged, so that he might gain the trust of the Danes, but when knowingly facing his last battle, uses bragging to comfort and brace himself for his ultimate demise.

To start, he often showed the prince as a symbol for the victories of others. “The well-being of the Prince…is of

Next, this man found many things that he liked, but a bronze horse caught his eye and in it laid a huge dead man with a ring on his finger, so he took it and ran off: "He saw, along with other quite wonderful things about which they tell tales, a hollow bronze horse. It had windows; peeping in, he saw there was a corpse inside that looked larger than human size. It had nothing on except a gold ring on its hand; he slipped it off and went out" (line 359d-e). Then, Glaucon tells of how the man was with the other shepherds making a report to the king and the man twisted the top of the ring to the inside of his hand and he gained the power of invisibility: "Now, while he was sitting with the others, he chanced to turn the collet of the ring to himself, toward the inside of his hand; when he did this, he became invisible to those sitting by him, and they discussed him as though he were away" (line 359e-360a). Finally, after noticing this power he starts to pass messages to the kingdom and eventually has sex with the queen and kills the king to take the thrown for himself: "Aware of this, he immediately contrived to be one of the messengers to the king. When he arrived, he committed adultery with the king's wife and, along with her, set upon the king and killed him. And so he took over the rule" (line 360a-b). So, Glaucon shows that if the just man gained the power to do injustices with no one knowing that it's him he will pursue in doing so.

“ I have heard you plight ” said the man, burdened by his ermine coat. “I am a prince from a far of land and I am prepared to take on the

The nobleman’s eyebrow shot higher into his hairline, and murmurs- verbal and mental- broke out across the crowd. Charles ignored them, and went on. “If you’ll spare him for the night- and I think you can, as we’ve all had our show,” he said. “I plan to seek the general in the morning.”

He clenched his outstretched hand around the severed lips, recalling the lurid scene from which they had come. The blood that likely still slunk from step to step ... the pearly white, up-rolled eyeballs....

The Prince has a definite form, tone, and rhetoric. The form is pleasing and organized. He organizes it first into the three main types of principalities- hereditary, mixed, and free- pausing once to address the Kingdom of Darius, then moves to the various ways one can rise to be a prince- arms and ability, others arms and fortune, wickedness, others rising the prince up- then talks about how to rise a kingdom to be stronger- measured strength, ecclesiastical,

raised his hand and struck hard, at the enamelled scales, but scarcely cut through: the blade flashed and slashed yet the blow was far less powerful than the hard-pressed king

Jackson, Duke of Baymore, stirred beneath Will, then settled. His soft snore was just one of the multitude of things Will loved about this man. Will could speak of Jackson's merits as a mercenary, of his strength, power, and skill with a sword. He could speak of his bravery in the face of insurmountable odds, and his cunning in the art of war left Will in all of his duke.

“Your majesty” The old general with white hair handed the box decorated by gems over to the little prince, “This is what the old king left to you.”

After murmuring a spell that locked Ramesses' hands behind his back and forced him to kneel on a cushion, Aloysius elegantly stretched out next to him with one leg draped over the other and an elbow pressed into a low table. Instinctively, Ramesses flexed his muscles and tried to call on his magic, but exhaustion had settled deeply into his joints and grappling against Aloysius' power with only willpower proved futile.

He wasn’t being protected anymore, by the ring his wife gave to him. His self-discovery began when he rescued a lion from a snake. In return, the lion gave him his loyalty. Also, when Lunete was falsely accused of betrayal by a steward and his brothers, he was able to defend her with the help of the lion. In so doing, he rescued her and gained back his honor also. Meanwhile, Laudine had seen him defend her servant’s honor and thanks him. She asked what his name was and he replied her by saying that he is the Knight with the lion. Also, she invited him to the castle but he refused. His refusal can translate to him being sorry for the pain he had caused her by abandoning her. In addition, he was also ashamed of his past

ANDROMACHE: Ah, prince! You heard the sighs which feared refusal. Forgive the fallen greatness this remnant of pride that fears to show itself importunate. You know my wishes; and but for you Andromache would never have clasped the knees of