Coriolanus Theme of Power

Coriolanus is a political tragedy about a Roman General Caius Martius later named Coriolanus. The play is revolved in two entirely different parts, the battlefield and the senate where we see Shakespeare's characterization of Coriolanus shift from a great General and Leader of the Roman army but incapable and lost in his element when he is speaking about politics. Coriolanus is shown as strong, smart and dragon like fighter in the battlefield and his power from the beginning of the play shifts to hatefulness and bitterness due to his political actions in the Roman Senate. The play shifts from the powerful Coriolanus to the opposition of Coriolanus, the tribunes and the citizens of Rome which Coriolanus hated because in his opinion they didn't deserve to have a say. The theme continues to shift from Coriolanus being the great General, to a hated politician and then banished from Rome. We see the Power shift from his hands to the hands of the Tribunes and citizens. In order to get back his power he goes and ally's himself with his nemesis in order to destroy the country and people that betrayed him and lay ruin to Rome like a dragon would to a city. After Coriolanus partners up with his rival Aufidius he gains the Power he lost when he got banished from Rome and now every Roman is scared that Coriolanus with attack and destroy Rome with the Volsces army. Finally Shakespeare shifts the theme again by taking all the power Coriolanus has gotten back by allying with Aufidius when he meets with his mother and Volumnia convinces him to not destroy Rome. At that moment Caius has lost every dragon like paromoiosis and now he is just a mere mortal. Coriolanus ends with the Romans having the Power and Caius being dead.