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The ruling class has all the power, the plebeians are rioting in the street, and a brooding hero is about to swoop in to save the day.(Maybe.) Nope, it's not Dark Knight Rises: it's Shakespeare's Coriolanus, set in 491 B.C.E., when early Republican Rome has just transitioned from being ruled by a monarch to a government run by elected officials.With the last tyrant king (that would be Tarquin) tossed out on his rear end, there's a power vacuum and everyone is scrambling for, well, power.199E Conolanus doesn'ticactually give sus definitive: answers.

The ruling class has all the power, the plebeians are rioting in the street, and a brooding hero is about to swoop in to save the day.
(Maybe.) Nope,
it's
not Dark Knight Rises: it's
Shakespeare's Coriolanus, set in 491 B.C.E., when early Republican Rome has just transitioned from being ruled by a monarch to a government run by elected officials. With the last tyrant king (that would be Tarquin) tossed out on his rear end, there's a power vacuum and everyone is scrambling for, well, power. Shakespeare uses the struggle for social and political power in ancient Rome in order to ask some pretty timeless questions, like:
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• What factors should determine how power is distributed in society?
Should everyone get an equal say in how a government is run?
• Are violent demonstrations a legitimate form of protest?
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Conolanus doesn'ticactually give sus definitive: answers. But Shakespeare does show us that aristocrats like: Coriolanus are completely unfit to be political leaders: they have absolutely no clue that they have a social, political, and moral obligation to care about the powerless, the poor, and the hungry.