Divine right of kings

In the 1600s to the mid 1800s the Divine Right of Kings started to collapse in Europe. The reason that this was happening was because people wanted to be treated equal. Some political documents and philosophers that that helped with the idea of equality, were the Magna Carta (1215) The English Bill of Rights (1689), and The American Bill of Rights (1791); Philosophers that helped constitute equality were, John Locke (1632-1704), and Charles Louis-Montesquieu (1689-1755). These documents and…

Since the time that King Louis XVI became the king of France in 1774, the country started to suffer abounding affairs. All of the abounding affairs France had was caused by King Louis XVI, which later led to French Revolution. The French Revolution was primarily created by the social inequalities, economy, and political reasons. King Louis XVI ruled by the divine right theory which made him control all of the country's decisions, The Social inequalities of France during the 18th century was very…

Sophocles includes a major conflict that is between human law and divine law. In Antigone there are two characters that support each of the law. Creon, a the king in Thebes, believes in human law which certainly provides him the right to create law. Antigone’s guideline is opposite from Creon, she supports Divine law which is the law that were build by gods. Through Antigone and Creon Sophocles describes the conflict between human law and divine law, these two laws represent Ancient people’s…

equal in the eyes of God, but questions the readers as to why then, if all men are equal, are some born kings and others subjects. Here he makes his strongest and most effective argument against hereditary Monarchs. He explains that there is a natural distinction between men and women, a Heavenly distinction between good and bad, but a lack of distinction for a race of men to be given divine right. For Paine this was a grievous offense as not only does it cause individuals to consider themselves…

only does she speak, sometimes the words spoken are true and harmful to her. Lady Macbeth while sleepwalking says “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him” (Shakespeare 98). Lady Macbeth is talking about the killing of king Duncan. As it can be seen later on in scene one where Lady Macbeth utters these words “Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave” (Shakespeare 99). On the…

describes the transition from a medieval conception, the aristocracy, in which the King is seen as the “prince”, in the latin meaning of it: primus inter pares, first among equals. It can be stated that the king is a sort of an elevated duke, who people need for military purposes, for the necessity to be protected (Lecture 10/01). Thus, he is bound to the law: with the sign of the Magna Charta the aristocrats have forced the King to recognize the legal limit to his power. …

Oedipus was the mythical Greek king of Thebes. Sophocles an ancient Greek playwright, who was famous for writing Greek tragedies created the character Oedipus. Sophocles created three Theban plays based on the character Oedipus called Antigone, then Oedipus the King, which was then followed by Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus represents two themes of Greek myth and drama, the nature of humanity and a person's fate in the course of destiny. Antigone was the first of the three Theban plays that…

were “divinely absolute,” i.e. it meant that the king possessed the divine rights which exempted his authority from the outside. The king, essentially, possessed all the authority on his own.…

monarchs were generally selected by the people based on their piety and virtue, their ancestors’ piety or virtue, or their own actions and successes in war. The kings of Rome were not uniform in nature, some kings were Romans, others foreigners; some kings were great conquerors, others pious administrators. However, what the Roman kings did have in common was the justification for their rule stemming from merit, rather than royal lineages. To qualify that, merit…

was a strong believer in divine right and in this play Macbeth goes against this idea and to portray his as an even greater villain Banquo is used as a foil to accentuate all the qualities that would make him a bad king. When Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches in the first scene Banquo warns of their evil while Macbeth is ensnared by their prophecies, highlighting his gullibleness. Later, when the pair discuss the prophecies, Banquo outright swears his loyalty to his king in a scene very close…