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...Tyrant. Kott's approach to tragedy is almost too empathetic. He begins and ends with the supreme sufferer, Prometheus. The classic hero, he suggests, enters a world that is either mismanaged or overmanaged. The tyrant may be a king or he may, as happened in the case of Prometheus, be Zeus himself. Out of compassion for the tyrant's suffering victims, out of a superb but frightening presumption, the hero ultimately proposes himself as "mediator and savior." He will rebel. He will disturb the existing order-even risk chaos-to secure a new covenant with power...
Marriage to Cousin Franklin seemed a lucky break, but Mother-in-Law Sara turned out to be a meddlesome tyrant, and Franklin himself had a few flaws as a husband. To this list we can now add a posthumous problem for Eleanor: her son Elliott seems bent on committing the equivalent of literary matricide...
...such as imagining insects crawling under their skin. Still, snorting cocaine is not as bad as injecting it into a vein; a mainlined overdose can literally freeze respiration and stop the heart-permanently. Considering these hazards, the king of drugs, as cocaine is often called, is something of a tyrant...
RICHARD III has some curious overtones now that we've hung up our bruised arms for monuments once more. It begins with a "bloody tyrant" named Richard's announcement of a peace he must accept and aches to overthrow, and it ends with his dethronement by the people he calls "base lackey peasants": Shakespeare, after all, was not for an age but for all time...
This was approximately 20% of the population of Wallachia, where he reigned (Transylvania was a neighboring province). What is fascinating about this tyrant is that he was universally acknowledged to have been an effective ruler. He savaged the Turks, whipped the landowning nobles into line, cowed the Saxons, and relieved the poor and the sick of their misery by burning large numbers of them. So perfect was his law and order that he was able to leave a rich golden goblet by a wayside spring in his domain for the refreshment of travelers. No one ever stole...