Essay On The Storming Of Bastille

The Storming of the Bastille You are in a park with you family having a picnic. You had just got back from seeing a parade and will be watching fireworks later that night. Families all around you are celebrating. Everywhere you look, you see red, white, and blue. Is this the Fourth of July? Close. It’s the 14th of July. You’re French and celebrating Bastille Day. It has been a national holiday since 1878 in honor of rioters attacking the Bastille, a political prison, in 1789. It was the beginning of the French revolution. Through the eyes of a realist, we will see what lead to the storming of the Bastille and why the French revolution could not be avoided. The Bourbon monarchy ruled France in the 1700’s. Because of how harsh the monarchy was and food shortages, there was unrest in the French people. A crowd formed and began making its way to the Bastille, where a few prisoners were being held captive and weaponry. They began to fire at guards in the towers and then took cover when they were …show more content…
France had long treated its citizens poorly and this lead to unrest in the people. War was inescapable in the late 1700s in France. When the pressure was too much, French people realized that they were the ones who needed to change things. The Bastille not only had the weapons they needed, but was a symbol for what they could achieve. This event helped spark the French Revolution which in turn helped reform France. War and power are two of the most important values of realists. Humans will always go to war because it is in our nature. By going to war, we win or lose power. The Start of the French Revolution exhibits this. There was not one leader who told citizens to take down the prison. They grabbed their weapons and tore it down. They killed without thinking. The paraded a man’s head on a stick around Paris. The storming of Bastille was impossible to avoid, but it helped France become a stronger