Humans have a perceived thought that they are great powerful begins. Humans like to think that there isn’t anything in the world that can stop them from living their lives. Humans seem to forget that there is a greater force more powerful than them and that force is nature. In the poem Ozymandias has many different themes, one of those themes is that nature will always conquer man and be in control wither in natural disasters or death.
Nature has been around longer than humans have been alive. When man was brought into this world nature had something else to fight against other than itself. An example of nature going against humans is the Ice Age. The Ice Age happened millions years ago when the world froze over and was changing shape humans …show more content…
One author that did an amazing way of showing this was Jack London. Jack London wrote many books and short stories about man and nature, one of those short stories was “To Build a Fire”. In this short story “To Build a Fire” is about a man that takes his dog to venture off to the Alaskan wilderness in the Yukon to find gold with his friends. He starts his journey by walking on a trail that went up to the cabin where his friends were. All he brings with him his some biscuits, pieces of tree bark and some matches because he assumes that he will make it before nightfall. In the -75 below weather he thinks he will manage to survive because he as knowledge by his side and all he needs to do is walk the trail and cross a river without falling in. Like Ozymandias, this man is prideful and over confident in his ability to beat nature. Before his travels he receive advice from an old man that tells him, “No man must travel the Klondike after 50 below”, but the man lets his pride get in the way and he ignores this advice to only die later because he fell in the river up to his hips and wasn’t able to dry off so he froze to death while his dog left him behind. In the short story just like the poem nature is against man, in freezing temperature and in …show more content…
One popular movie that mind is “Into the Wild”, this was book turned into a movie. The movie/book is about a young man named Christopher McCandless who gives up everything thing he owns after he graduates college to purse a life in the Alaskan wilderness for as long as he can. The part of the movie/book that has an Ozymandias feel was a young boy who thought by going his own way he was better than the society he was living in because he’s “living his dream”. Also, like in Ozymandias nature comes around after McCandless, he does get to the Alaskan wilderness but he has inadequate equipment and dies from starvation and poising from eating the wrong plant. McCandless lasted 114 days in the Alaskan wilderness but from being so far out from civilization it took months until the next person found his body in an abandoned bus that he staying in. His body was so decayed that he was almost
Nature has been around longer than humans have been alive. When man was brought into this world nature had something else to fight against other than itself. An example of nature going against humans is the Ice Age. The Ice Age happened millions years ago when the world froze over and was changing shape humans …show more content…
One author that did an amazing way of showing this was Jack London. Jack London wrote many books and short stories about man and nature, one of those short stories was “To Build a Fire”. In this short story “To Build a Fire” is about a man that takes his dog to venture off to the Alaskan wilderness in the Yukon to find gold with his friends. He starts his journey by walking on a trail that went up to the cabin where his friends were. All he brings with him his some biscuits, pieces of tree bark and some matches because he assumes that he will make it before nightfall. In the -75 below weather he thinks he will manage to survive because he as knowledge by his side and all he needs to do is walk the trail and cross a river without falling in. Like Ozymandias, this man is prideful and over confident in his ability to beat nature. Before his travels he receive advice from an old man that tells him, “No man must travel the Klondike after 50 below”, but the man lets his pride get in the way and he ignores this advice to only die later because he fell in the river up to his hips and wasn’t able to dry off so he froze to death while his dog left him behind. In the short story just like the poem nature is against man, in freezing temperature and in …show more content…
One popular movie that mind is “Into the Wild”, this was book turned into a movie. The movie/book is about a young man named Christopher McCandless who gives up everything thing he owns after he graduates college to purse a life in the Alaskan wilderness for as long as he can. The part of the movie/book that has an Ozymandias feel was a young boy who thought by going his own way he was better than the society he was living in because he’s “living his dream”. Also, like in Ozymandias nature comes around after McCandless, he does get to the Alaskan wilderness but he has inadequate equipment and dies from starvation and poising from eating the wrong plant. McCandless lasted 114 days in the Alaskan wilderness but from being so far out from civilization it took months until the next person found his body in an abandoned bus that he staying in. His body was so decayed that he was almost