What is the one thing that the most tyrannical rulers in the world have in common? Everyone has failed in their attempts to rule the world. At the time of their sentence, they feel too superior to fail and cannot be stopped. As time passes, however, they all fall away and are forgotten. This topic inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley to write one of the most famous sonnets of all time in “Ozymandias.” Before Shelley began writing "Ozymandias," he wrote sonnets that expressed his antipathy toward the tyranny that ruled England at the time as King George III. Shelley felt that in this world there was no place for people who felt superior to others. “Ozymandias” was simply his way of showing them how they would end up if they tried to rule the world. Ozymandias tells the story of a traveler who tells of his journey to Egypt. He says he saw "Two vast and trunkless stone legs", this indicates that it was probably once a statue. He says what was once a sculpture is now nothing more than a destroyed, half-sunken face. The narrator then finds the statue's head with a “half wrinkle...