Democracy In D'simpson

The film D’Anton lets its viewers visualize the conflict between two very powerful men during the reign of terror. They were both trying to make France better in the aspects of building a democracy. One of the powerful men, Maximilien Robespierre, was the man of the republic. He would go to extremes to build a republic. He was a member of the Jacobins club which was represented by the Republicans. He would call himself the incorruptible. He thought that he could not be corrupted by anything. However, as we saw in the movie, he became corrupted by the power which he held. The other one, Georges Jacques D’Anton, was the man of the people. D’Anton was a powerful figure because was educated. He was a lawyer with a great set of skills to get his point across. His big voice and ability to speak to the public made him able to express the recent problems in France. His oratorical skills were at such a high level that he could have talked to people anywhere and anytime. The common people loved him. They supported him because he would say what the people wanted to hear. They were called the Sans Culottes. They were a mols crowd of the common. Both, …show more content…
He used his oratorical skill to give the people the information that they needed. Robespierre thought that he is going to build the democracy by himself. His high position the Committee helped him with it. Also, with St. Just by his side Robespierre had done terrible things. His ideological purity was aiming toward the democracy and nothing was going to stop it but the incorruptible ended up with too much power in his hands. The example of that is him managing to put D’Anton in jail and killing him or when he took a person out of the painting of the Tennis Court Oath because he was a traitor. In the movie, the D’Anton said that they created even worse regime than