Guillotine

The French government system now is look upon by many countries. However, back then it was drastically different. The system back then is absolute monarchy. The strict ruling system caused many harms. There are three main factors that lead to the French revolution that is high debts, the high taxes the people have to pay, and starvation. In my opinion, Reign of Terror is not justified because it caused more violence and anyone against it receives cruel punishment. First of all, the Reign of…

The play Antigone tells of the obstacles one girl faces while attempting to claim justice for her brother. Written by Sophocles, Antigone, is the story of how the main character, Antigone, tries to bury her brother against the king’s order. Creon, the king, had demanded that Antigone’s brother, Polynieces’, body should be left unburied for vultures to feed on. While Antigone’s actions seem like a revolution, they are not because Antigone is only one person that trying to change the government…

During the French Revolution, the poor people of France rebelled against the unjust government in which they had little to no representation, resulting in the arrests and executions of over 300,000 Frenchmen (Gaynor & Esler 478). During this time period, much of France’s Third Estate, which made up over 98% of the population, lived in horrible conditions. They had to deal with famine and living in small, one room houses while the rich lived easy lives with little work, not having to pay any…

Voltaire was a philosopher during the Age of Enlightenment and wrote a French satire Candide in 1759. Voltaire was born in Paris and throughout his life, he wrote many satire stories that displeased his father. He was exiled from France for insulting the French government with his satire stories. Voltaire was inspired by the philosophy of John Locke and the scientific theories of Isaac Newton. He was also influenced by the French satirist Rabelais and Diderot. During the Age of Enlightenment,…

In his beautiful speech, The Death of Marie Antoinette, Edmund Burke mourns the death of the Queen and the passing of an era in Europe. The Queen of France was put of trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined in 1793 on counts of plotting against the Republic. Burke thought very highly of the dauphine, however he had a stronger opinion on what she represented. Edmund Burke saw the French Revolution as a violent rebellion against tradition and proper authority, not as movement…

The French Revolution took place in the late 18th century and left France in complete disarray. The French Revolution is known for being extremely gruesome. The peasantry overthrew the oppressive First Estate using extreme brutality and violence. Charles Dickens describes the struggles people faced during the French Revolution in his classic novel “A Tale of Two Cities”. One of the main characters in “A Tale of Two Cities” is Charles Darnay, a member of the First Estate. He had left France for…

The Storming of the Bastille was a major turning point in the French Revolution.1 It was the start of violent uprisings against the king, and an important moment in the growth of nationalism. Violence and fear had been growing in Paris. On July 13, 1789 rumours that the King was planning an attack on the National Assembly spread,2 and this panicked the Parisians.3 A group of craftsmen and salesmen convened, and they went to the Invalides to steal weapons.4 The Invalides refers to The Hôtel…

Objectives are frequently misinterpreted as individuals get caught up in the action and disregard the affect; what becomes of the world after the significant event is what comes through the lines of history. Napoleon was one of the many people in the documented past that fell victim to this cruel concept. The lasting outcome of his wars and leadership are justifying heroic. Truly a hero in todays world. France was in a chaos before Napoleon inserted himself into his crumbling empire. Power ran…

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.…

Prosecution of Maximilien Robespierre Maximilien Robespierre did not justifiably utilize terror during the French revolution because he manipulated Enlightenment beliefs to validate his personal timetable. As a result of his frequent use of the death penalty, people’s “virtue” or love for the government became a way for Robespierre to create a fascist nation, not a democracy. The major goal of the Enlightenment oriented revolutionaries was to create a democracy through the participation of the…