Storming of the Bastille

scholars because of it’s complex nature; the Fair could be analyzed in many different ways, which is what made it researching gold for scholars of popular culture (Rydell). The Fair took place in 1889, which was the 100th year anniversary of the storming…

The Enlightenment was a time in European history when many people started to think about the way they were being ruled. Enlightenment thinkers emphasized the idea of personal freedom and challenging the monarchy. Enlightenments thinkers and writes pushed for democracy and the recognition of “natural rights.” As more and more people adopted the mindset of the Enlightenment, they realized that the way they were being treated by the government was oppressive. This led to many tensions and conflicts…

meeting members of the third estate were removed from the estates general causing them to create the national assembly and swear the “Tennis Court Oath” which is that they will not leave until they have a constitution. Followed by that was the storming of the Bastille and the declaration of the right of man which served as a statement to show the power of the revolutionaries. Shortly after, the royal family attempts to flee after a series of actions against them which include a march of market…

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…

Revolutions, usually seen as a clash of ideas, spawn with an simple yet complex ideology with an even more in depth leader. The revolutions at the time of great liberal movements in Europe had such trends. Historically, one may look upon France following the Seven Years War as an example. The tired out peasantry sought reform amongst an aristocratic government. With the deaths of many and passing France amongst diverse leaders, one came to power, Napoleon. Napoleon was a French general who held…

The peasants of France were tired of being grossly mistreated by the aristocrats so they turned to violence to solve their issues. They started by storming the Bastille to free all the prisoners and then all the aristocrats were arrested and killed. This shows how brutal people can become when oppressed for so long. This type of behavior shows up again in today’s society in Egypt. There is avery large political…

How could something as delicious as chocolate be used to portray an entire class of snobbish French citizens? By using metaphorical language, A Tale of Two Cities describes the tensions that caused a truly vicious war to occur in France. Moreover, numerous key characters and images are able to capture the spirit of redemption amid the turmoil. Utilizing a plethora of symbolism, Charles Dickens is able to perfectly represent the self-absorbed aristocracy, revolutionary fever, and a theme of…

The French Revolution: An Event that Shows How Hard it is to Replace a Monarchy with a Short Dictator The French Revolution began with the Age of Enlightenment, a time when new ideas spreaded throughout Europe about how a government should be run. As well as what freedoms, rights, and protection should be given to people making them equal. With these new concepts floating around, the people of France began to notice some flaws with their government. France had gained a huge debt from…

As it look that the King may never recover, the monarch rebel by refusing to take his medicine and throwing away anything he could get his hands on. During nights, “he was almost unmanageable, and pages had to sit on him while he was tied to his bed. By day, he swore, uttering strange indecencies and ‘oaths which had never yet been heard from the lips’, begging his attendants to put an end to his miserable life. Moods of deep depression alternated with spasms of childish mischievousness in which…

desired. Famine, disease, and poverty swept through pre-revolutionary France. These factors entwined with the despot political system inflamed a decade long revolution and catapulted France from a feudal society into a dominant world force. The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the beginning of radical changes for the country of France the same way the Massachusetts’ “shot heard around the world” on April 19, 1775 marked the beginning of dramatic changes for the colonies of…