Perhaps helpful with the recent entries on the nature of exile, this painting speak volumes. Observe not only the man once strong in power, yet now weak in character, struggling with his fate. Observe also the crew who regard him with a mixture of curiosity, awe, contempt, indifference, and ridicule. They are the Chorus, the very sort of people Bonaparte once ruled with barely a thought.
Written in 8/2013
Image: William Quiller Orchardson, Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon (c. 1880)
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