William Charles Wentworth: A Brief Biography

Sir Edmund William was born on August 10, 1753. He was born and raised in the small town of Williamsburg, Virginia. As a child, Edmund was very privileged. He had wealthy parents who also doubled as slave owners. Growing up, he also had three siblings named Suzan, Beverly, and Arianna. His father, prominent Robert Carter Nicholas, was in the army as a commander and studied in law, so young Edmund Randolph was greatly influenced. Edmund Randolph later went to the college of William and Mary. Soon after college, he then began studying with his father and uncle.

However in document F it says: “ Because of his firmness in opposing the “great monied (rich) aristocracy (upper class). which seeks to master our government, and threatens to overthrow our free institutions. Meaning that stayed strong in believing the right and wrong thing. Which was respected

his eyes, which was a view his master also held. He was often kind and tended to help those in need if possible. This, however, was contrasted by his brutal form of justice, where he would often kill criminals and thugs, rather than

exceedingly opinionated. Not only did tell an eighty year old man to sell everything and live off the land, but he was also very critical of his parents and their lifestyle. For example, McCandless was infuriated at his parents when they offered him a new car even though his old one worked fine. (138

They would ignore those who struggled to get their kids into the school and did not wear the finest clothes. He rebelled against the common conceptions of age and maturity. He believed that you should be considered mature when you could thin for yourself and make your own choices, not when you reached a certain age or certain physical appearance. He wanted to be treated like an adult and resented others judging him based on his age.

He was very determined which could be clearly seen, as he put so much effort into his goal of acquiring life (1). I liked to keep watch on him as he was very mysterious. I thought of him as a very unusual patient (1), as he always wanted to complete a goal, and he would do anything to complete it. He was very childish, as he changed his mood in the matter of seconds. Overall, he was very cunning and determined, he would do anything to achieve his objective.

Paragraph 6: At one point he called for the abolition of slavery, but later he saw the abolitionist movement as a threat to democracy. One of his poems was about an egalitarian view of the races and his attitude in life reflected many of the racial prejudices common to the nineteenth -century his opposition to slavery was not necessarily based on belief in the equality of races.

The wealthy sat in the comfort of their mansions while he was out on the field, working long and hard hours. He did not think it was fair that no matter how hard he tried, he will only remain a poor sharecropper while they will still remain the rich landowners. His resentment gave way to some vengeful tendencies, like burning barns. He purposely targets the barn because it plays a vital part in keeping the farm going. Owners benefited the most from the livestock and if they did not have any animals on their farm, then the farm would not be able to function properly and they would lose a significant amount of money. Even though he held a grudge toward his bosses, he did not want to kill them, instead, he focused on destroying something he viewed as the source of their happiness and comfort; their wealth. In a Marxist view, his carefully planned actions illustrate how his low social status affects his personality and leads him into doing harmful

He spoke out secretly against the intolerance, cruelty, and smugness of his time. One example of him speaking out about this, is the punishment that Candide received. He was suppose to run the gauntlet 36 times. He was going to be hit by every soldier in his company twice each time her ran it. He only ran it twice which meant that he only was hit 8,000 times.

I was startled and surprised when I read on page 10 how he frequently met with slaves who were well dressed and looked as though they were living an easy life. He even said they consulted him about escaping, but out of fear they didn’t. To me it was almost like a vision was shown to him of what his life was about to become as a slave. When he arrived in Washington and was shown his sleeping room in the back part of the hotel where he began to think about the wife and children after he lay down and felt guilty about his choice to leave without telling them. My question to him would have been why did it take you so long to think about them and why did you put money before your family you were making good money doing odd and end jobs. It seems to me he was greedy for money and sacrificed his family for it and caused a lot of hurt and pain to his family. The other question I have is how

The definition for selfish is “lacking consideration for others: concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure”. Jon Krakauer tries to tell us that he is selfish in the book Into The Wild. Chris Mccandless fits this definition selfish pretty well. He abandoned his family. He abandoned his new friends that he met on the way.

He entered life as one who would live in the privileged class all of his life, but he never seemed to consider himself privileged or above the people. His father was a member of the House of Lords, so he was indoctrinated into politics at an early age. But, he seemed to have an innate knack to understand the inner workings of the political and diplomatic system also. Because of this understanding he would prepare himself for the

He was a monster of conceit. Never for one minute did he look at the world or at people, except in relation to himself. He was not only the most important person in the world, to himself; in his own eyes he was the only person who existed. He believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the world, one of the greatest thinkers, and one of the greatest composers. To hear him talk, he was Shakespeare, and Beethoven, and Plato, rolled into one. And you would have had no difficulty in hearing him talk. He was one of the most exhausting conversationalists that ever lived. An evening with him was an evening spent in listening to a monologue. Sometimes he was brilliant; sometimes he was maddeningly tiresome. But whether he was being brilliant or dull, he had one sole topic of conversation: himself. What he thought and what he did.

the personality of his duchess, he is shown to be a heartless, arrogant man. His complete

his views on how the rich treated the poor, and how he felt about the