<span>Dionysius’s desire for total control and power affect the story’s plot in “Damon and Pythias” when </span><span>Dionysius character was hot - tempered and imperious and anyone who angered him was put to death. In this situation, people in Syracuse were afraid to make a statement about him because they will be put to death. And so when a day came that he was informed that a young man named Pythias had been heard complaining against the cruelty of Dionysius, he condemned the youth to die.</span>
The desire for total control and power that Dionysius has is what gives rise to the plot. Because of this desire, Dionysius is a tyrant who often abuses his power. Moreover, he does not let anyone criticize him and he is hot-tempered and imperious. This attitude is what leads him to condemn Pythias to death for complaining against him. It is also what leads Damon to be willing to give his life for his friend.
he respects animals because they have retained those values and tokens which human seen to have already lost. in this poem the poet whitman compares man to animals . he finds that man lacks many virtues that animals have .the poet desires to live among the animala because thet are calm and self cofident