Throne

started major building projects, and started the Pax Romana, a time of peace that lasted 200 years. When he had died, his adopted son Tiberius took the throne. Tiberius Caesar was a less qualified emperor, and didn’t even want the throne. He was a noted general, but politics were considered beyond him. After his death, Caligula took the throne. He was considered one of the…

insecure, power, the witches. In the beginning, Macbeth's wife convinced Macbeth to kill the king which started his downward spiral. After Macbeth became king, he was extremely insecure about his position. He was scared that someone else would take the throne away from him, so he kept on killing people. The power started going to Macbeth's head. He wanted to become more powerful and did not care what he had to do to gain that power. The witches convinced him that he should not be too worried…

became a major international conflict, stemming from the question of Maria Theresa’s succession to the Austrian throne, which in turn had repercussions on the individual countries of Europe, as well as Europe altogether. As the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI neared its end, his foreign policy became devoted to ensuring the succession of his daughter, Maria Theresa to the Austrian throne. According to the Pragmatic Succession issued in 1713, all Habsburg lands would pass intact to the…

The story takes place on the moon, which is called Luna in the book. The characters go everywhere on Luna, but the places where main events take place is the palace in Artemisia and the outer sector of RM-9. In the palace, you meet Winter, the princess of Luna, and learn the ways of her stepmother, Queen Levana of Luna. Winter's friend, Jacin, learns that Levana wants Winter dead, so both Winter and Jacin help out Cinder and her crew by feeding them information from the palace. Also, Emperor Kai…

Author Elizabeth MacLeod wonders, “Why would Richard murder his brother’s children, especially when their deaths had no effect on his right to England’s throne?” (48). Although Richard III is known for being evil and hunchbacked, many historians believe that this was not the case. The sources about Richard III are considered unreliable because they were written by Sir Thomas More, a Tudor supporter (MacLeod…

Duncan's eldest son and next in line for the throne. Macduff was also a man well known for being a Scottish noble. They were not as popular as Macbeth was. This changes as the Macbeth attempts to fulfill the witches prophecies of those in line for the throne and became so drunk with power along with bloodshed on his hands.…

The repetition parallels Richard’s decision to give up the throne when initially confronted by Bolingbroke in act three. In the scene, Richard repeatedly calls himself “the King” in the third person, focusing on his body politic rather than his body personal (3.3.143-147). As a man, Richard is taken captive by Bolingbroke…

rightful heir to the throne, and the English army plan to invade Dunsinane, Macbeth’s castle, and overthrow Macbeth. On the way to Dunsinane, Malcolm announces that most men are abandoning Macbeth and that “‘none serve with him but constrained things,/ Whose hearts are absent too’” (V.iv.17-8). Macbeth unveils his evil ambitions once again by using the throne to gain more power instead of executing the job of a king, which is to serve its people. Macbeth’s misuse of the throne for his own…

One of the world’s most devastating and history-changing wars was caused by the assassination of Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was next in line for the throne to govern over the Austria-Hungary empire in the beginning of the 20th century, and he was rising at a very dangerous and tense time. In the early 1900s, Austria-Hungary was in a stressful conflict with the country of Serbia. The Serbians wanted the land of Bosnia, in which the Austria-Hungarian empire had annexed into…

Elizabeth the I, Queen of England, faced extreme challenges upon her role on the throne. She faced day to day discrimination in the late 1500’s against her gender, and was pushed heavily into forging a marriage to not only bare an heir to the throne, but to force a marriage alliance into place. However, She rejected this lifestyle that she was nearly forced into following, and instead paved a path that nobody had expected and became known as the Virgin Queen. Elizabeth was known for…