In the biopic PATTON by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, on the life of General George Patton the General delivers a warning: “that all glory is fleeting”.
Cardinal Wosley's soliloquy in the life of King Henry the VIII uses metaphor to describe the fall from power “The third day comes a frost, a killing frost…”
We end the series with Richard II's epic rumination on the death of kings “…Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs…”
FALL
THE DEATH OF POWER
Oliver James Burke
Power Begins
Gluttony of Power
Answer to Tyranny
Response to Rebellion
Death of Power