Enlightenment philosophers

Charles Dickens, author of A tale of Two Cities, is very unsympathetic to the French Revolution. Through his novel, he portrays his dislike toward the Revolution, and essentially war itself. His characters show how war turns humanity animalistic and pitiless. The French Revolution came about to free the French middle class and the peasantry from the oppressive aristocracy; however, after the overthrow, the people become oppressed under the new rulers, leaving the French Revolution not effective…

A history composed of specific people, wars, revolutions compose what we look back to today. It is the foundation of each country and what they are built upon. The American revolution inspired other revolutions and were performed by different events such as resenting their governing country or to be simply inspired and motivated as America, France, and Haiti were. As both the French and Haitian were inspired from the American revolution, it shows the greater importance of the American revolution…

Being one of the most crucial times in histroy for the United Staes, the Industrial Revolution was ironically, one of the best times to be alive and one of the worst. As Charles Dickens said in his novel A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope.” Although Dickens was referring to the French Revolution when saying this, it could also easily be put in the context of the American Industrial Revolution. The…

disaster. Conditions in France in the late 1780s Later on in the 1700s, the people of France began to realize that the constitution of France was not exactly working. Their constitution was formed around the absolute power of the monarchy. New Enlightenment thinking was sweeping…

The Notre Broad Church Paris or Notre Lady de Paris (Signifying 'Our Woman of Paris' in French) is a Gothic house of prayer situated in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France, It has its primary access toward the west. The Notre Broad Church with its models and recoloured glass windows demonstrate the substantial impact of naturalism, not at all like that of prior Romanesque building design. It was one of the first Gothic houses of prayer, and its development occurred all through the…

a Romantic style. These were the two main styles that came after the Age of Enlightenment. The artist created works of art that followed the progression of the revolution. Leading up to the Revolution, art served as a form of propaganda. During the revolution, art documented events of the revolution. Following the revolution, art celebrated the victory of the revolution.…

Enlightenment writers, John Locke, Montesquieu and Adam Smith influenced society. John Locke and Montesquieu mainly worked on changing society. Smith focused more on the economy. John Locke is associated with natural liberty and how the people's opinion is what should rule in government. Montesquieu's idea was that the type of government had to be changed to a better one. Adam Smith believed that the economy had to think of another way to make more money, efficiently. John Locke wanted to…

The Enlightenment ideas appealed to the middle class and challenged the traditional absolute power by one ruler. When France aided the Americans in their revolution, many of the French came back from America with revolutionary ideas fresh in mind. Some of these…

The first source I will be evaluating in depth is Messali Hadj’s speech, “Fight against French Imperialism!” which was delivered in Algeria in 1928. The origin of this source is valuable because it was delivered by Messali Hadj, who was a well-known nationalist and co-founder of North Africa Star, one of the first Algerian nationalist organizations. Hadj, being one of the first people to create a platform to refute the statutes instituted by the French, would have been a fresh and new voice…

third estate without respect. They taxed the third estate heavily. Also giving the third estate little to no privileges. The third estate did not consider fighting for their rights until they heard about the American Revolution and the ideas of enlightenment. However once hearing those ideas and actions of reform it pushed them past the breaking limit. The French wanted a revolution. Overall the cause of the French revolution was due to the high tax the third estate had to pay, the lack of…