The Many-Headed Hydra

Levee en Masse had a large impact on the Revolution(Doc 1). He forced everyone to unite toward a common good in order to excite hatred of kings, and to preach the unity of the republic. Everyone had a role during the French Revolution whether it was going forth into battle, making arms, transporting food, serving hospitals, preparing lint from old linens, or gathering in public places to raise the courage of the warriors. People were willing to contribute so much in the hopes that they could finally live in a democratic society. The majority would finally get their their way, creating a happier group of people. Simon Bolivar was another great leader that had his eyes set on destroying the spanish and reestablishing the republican government(Doc 6). With San Martin’s army, he had enough firepower to destroy the remaining Spanish forces and win the freedom for the Latin Americans and reestablish the republican government. Future countries of Venezuela, columbia, Panama, and Ecuador would unite into a country called Gran

Both Maximilien Robespierre and Napoleon Bonaparte used the revolution as a wave they rode to the power. Without the revolution, neither of them would have gotten to the position that they did. It is true that they both had to work themselves up to get there. They went to schools to educate themselves and the revolution liked the people who were educated. People like lawyers and doctors were voted to the National Assembly to represent the common people of France. A lot of the well-educated people had a much bigger chance to grow as leaders and get to the power. The ones who took their positions seriously and used the revolution to help them get to the power were mainly Maximilien Robespierre and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Old Major is Lenin, the dogs are the KGB, Moses is religion at that time, Mr. Jones is Tsar, Frederick is Hitler, Pilkington is the USA, Napoleon is Stalin, Snowball is Trotsky, Squealer is propaganda, Boxer is the laboring class, and Mollie is the upper class. It is not hard to determine which animals represent what. Orwell makes sure to make it simple for the reader to see who is representing who. Squealer is one of the easiest animals to pick out. Orwell describes Squealer as, “a small fat pig…with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes...and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker and when he was arguing a difficult point…he had a way which was somehow very persuasive” (Orwell 36). Squealer also uses a form of propaganda when speaking about Boxer, deception, because he is deceiving everyone to think good of Napoleon when, in reality, he is really the one that is the enemy here. Snowball is another easy parallel to catch because of the hatred of him by Napoleon. Just like how Trotsky was deported from Russia by the KGB, Snowball was chased off the farm by the dogs. Also, similar to how Trotsky and Stalin differ on opinions about many things, Napoleon and Snowball differed on opinions about the building of the windmill. Overall, the animals are very easy to characterize because of Napoleon’s

The French Revolution was a time of period where social and political was a disruption in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. This time of period affected Social Structure of France prior to the French Revolution. The factors that caused this revolution was due to having a bad government system, weak superiority, and inequality of the classes of people in France during the war. In this research, I will define and explain how Social Structure contributed to the French Revolution Resentment of royal authoritarianism. The three estates that social structure consists of are first estate which are the clergies, second estate known as the Nobleman, and third estate which are the Bourgeoisie, peasants, and workers. The Revolution did not omit sharp distinctions among the social groups, neither did it alter the distribution of wealth. This caused them to divide into these three groups called as estates.

Identify the following people/groups. Who are they? What was their role in the Revolution? What are they known for? If they are a writer, include the title of their work.

Kazan highlights how the mob exploits their position at the expense of the longshoreman. The union has instilled fear into all of the union

This was a time of working class discontent when workers and the movement as a whole were seeking answers to the social injustices they suffered. The speech was made at a time when Parliament and government were dominated by the aristocracy (O’Day et al., 2011, p96). Democracy was seen as a way of resolving the economic circumstances of the worker and political action was thought to be the mechanism to bring this about. Paragraphs 3 and 5 contain almost exclusively political rhetoric with the speaker seeking the audiences support. There are many references to support this,” the rich unnaturally elevated above the proper spheres of the mortal man” (Para2 Line 3) and “mustering your thousands to aid

Maximilien Robespierre has always been known to be controversial and misunderstood. He was the face of the French Revolution. In accordance with the Jacobins, they controlled the time known as the Reign of Terror, due to their influence in the accumulation of murders of those opposed to the revolution. Reign of Terror was a symbolic time period within the French Revolution that involved corruption of power and influence and mass executions. With Robespierre at the forefront, he became one of the most important men in the Revolution. As soon as Maximilien Robespierre decided to react to enemies of the revolutions, mass execution being his choice of force; his implementation of the Reign of Terror was a villainous act striking those who

In his paper Economic Burden: Spark to the American Revolution?, Joseph Reid argues that America rebelled not mainly for ideological reasons, but rather for economic ones grounded in self-interest. To elucidate his argument, Reid uses several interesting strategies – he creates new definitions of everyday words such as loyalty and sentiment, he points to colonists fighting more for the felling of a new tax than for the gaining of a civil right, and he applies traditional ideas of supply-and-demand to systems of political governance. While these strategies develop Reid’s argument in thought-provoking ways, Reid largely fails to address the role of ideology and elite rhetoric in inducing the masses to fight. Indeed, for Reid, “the constitutional

The Bourgeoisie was different from the other two groups in their success. They understood the excessive taxation was only for the third estate and the other two did not get taxed at al.. They also knew they did not have fair representation in the government. Even though they were richer than the rest of the Third Estate, they wanted to have equal representation. The monarch gave them double representation but that was also unfair and ineffective. In the end, they overthrew the government and came up with their own government. Initially, they received representation through the Estates-General. However, this was not enough for them either because the monarch had control over their meetings. They then formed the National Constituents Assembly and formed the Tennis Court Oath. This eventually led them to making the Declaration of the Rights of Man. They finally gained the equality they had been striving for and they could not be suppressed. They eventually led to the Directory and they had all of the issues they were concerned with addressed. They received the most exposure because they were the most intelligent of the Third Estate and they were able to take control of the government.

The French Revolution was quite different than the American Revolution predecessor. The American Revolution expressed the tensions of a colonial relationship with a distant imperial power, the French insurrection was driven by sharp conflicts within French society. Members of the titled nobility - privileged, prestigious, and wealthy - resented and resisted the monarchy's effort to subject them to new taxes. Educated middle-class men such as doctors, lawyers, lower-level officials, and merchants were growing in numbers and sometimes in wealth and were offended by the remaining privileges of the aristocracy, from which they were excluded. Ordinary urban men and women, many of whose incomes had declined for a generation, were hit particularly hard in the late 1780s by the rapidly rising price of bread and widespread unemployment. Nowhere did the example of the French Revolution echo more loudly than in

There were three very strong revolutionary groups throughout the revolution that contributed to the rise and fall of

Even though these struggles between social classes did not have an immediate effect due to temporary restrains, it later on became a significant cause for the breakout of the revolution. Although each class' had its own aspirations and achievements suiting their interests, they had one common goal. As the regime was no longer serving their interests or guaranteeing them, it had to be put down or modified. Therefore the regime, combined with other pressures, finally collapsed.

The American Revolution and the war in which they broke away from Britain produced the spark which ignited the already combustible revolutionary mood of France. Inspired by the Americans, the French Revolution was now at a full blaze. Peasants rioted, calling for Louis XVI to do something to end the crisis. The lower classes adhered more to the views of Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke, calling for freedom, equality and liberty from Louis XVI and an end to upper class privileges, while the upper class were leaning more towards the ideas of Hobbes, and favored a strong form of government to keep the people in order. Instability among the

Liberté, égalité, fraternité was the cry of freedom that countless people used to propel them through, and to the end of the French Revolution. This long period of social, political and economic change in France lasted 10 years, starting in 1798 and ended with Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution greatly affected all of Europe at the time and continues to represent the embodiment of revolution to this day. This constant struggle between the heavily taxed, burdened, and unrepresented third estate and those higher created an environment of monumental change for everyone. In the years leading up to the French Revolution, new beliefs and ideas were reaching every corner of Europe creating the thought that men should live free of oppression. However, in France the leader Louis XVI lead like a tyrant leaving the people impoverish and angry. Through the analysation of numerous circumstance present during the Ancien Régime, such as an inferior fiscal leadership, massive debt, and the forthcoming of new ideas during the Enlightened period, it can be concluded that the means for this revolution were justified as it is in our essence to revolt for a change.