Leaders
Tyrants
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Because it represents how a revolution's leaders can eventually become no different from the tyrants they overthrew.
Source: World of Symbolism -
Leaders of the latter presented themselves as nasty, murderous, specieist tyrants by that point, and Faust was a power-grabbing megalomaniac.
- Then a handful of war-leaders turned kings turned gods became insufferable tyrants, which culminated in them murdering their queen (Mythal) for trying to stop their power-hungry schemes.
Source: Why We Can't Have Nice Things
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