Teachers and Entertainers of the Enlightenment Period During the Enlightenment Period authors found their roles in life were to teach and entertain their audience. In Jean-Baptist Poquelin Moliere’s Tartuffe and Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man‚ both artist achieve the Enlightenment’s goal‚ to teach and entertain. Both writers use satire‚ optimism‚ and emphasis on reason to inform and keep the attention of their audience. There are some regards that Moliere and Pope sacrificed art‚ creativity
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As time changes‚ so does the calendar. In 1793‚ the Gregorian calendar was replaced by a new one. Dates were moved‚ months renamed and the number of days in a week increased. The reason for a new calendar in France was to change and fix what was wrong in the original calendar. People who were with the new calendar approved it‚ for it provided more work and and a better resting day. For those who were against the new calendar‚ claimed that it made working life more difficult and that it was against
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The causes of the French Revolution is a significant subject of historical debate. France in 1789‚ although facing some economic (and especially fiscal) difficulties‚ was one of the richest and most powerful nations in Europe;[1] further‚ the masses of most other European powers had less freedom and a higher chance of arbitrary punishment. At the time Louis XVI called the Estates-General of 1789‚ he himself was generally popular‚ even if the nobility and many of the king’s ministers were not.[2]
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Assignment I: Causes of the French Revolution There was not one single decisive reason that was unequivocally responsible for the French Revolution. Many years of feudal repression and economic negligence were factors as to why the general public of France were ripe for revolt. There were also various class orders of people that participated in various ways in propelling the nation into a Revolution‚ with direct and indirect actions. Documenting a descending fiscal record in the late
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------------------------------------------------- A Tale of Two Cities: Themes Tyranny and Revolution Much of the action of A Tale of Two Cities takes place in Paris during the French Revolution‚ which began in 1789. In A Tale of Two Cities‚ Dickens shows how the tyranny of the French aristocracy—high taxes‚ unjust laws‚ and a complete disregard for the well-being of the poor—fed a rage among the commoners that eventually erupted in revolution. Dickens depicts this process most clearly through
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Liang Zhou French Revolution started in 1789 with the accumulated resentment French people had towards the King‚ Louis XVI. The resentment was accumulated from many aspects‚ such as unfair treatment‚ the king’s incompetence and poverty. Social‚ political and geographic factors is definitely the causes of French revolution. The General Estate was one of the most inhuman systems which planned the seed of revolution. The General Estate was the system used before French Revolution to divide the
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France’s approach to political power changed many times throughout history. In the beginning of the 18th century‚ France’s government was a hereditary monarchy: a form of rule prevalent throughout Europe at that time. Ruling France’s hereditary monarchy were the Bourbons. Prior to 1789‚ there were clear indications that “the government was economically‚ politically‚ and militarily bankrupt.” These were some of the events that foreshadowed the imminent collapse of the Bourbons. Whether Bourbon or
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Witchcraft confessions and demonology Jean Bodin was one of the most esteemed European writers on satanic witchcraft‚ and also among the most radical. With his De la Demononomanie des Sorciers‚ Jean Bodin attacks the sceptics of demonology as much as the legions of demons and execrable witches’ supposedly plotting universal destruction. He deduces a whole chapter in his book to witches confessions. Some judges hesitated to condemn witches as their stories were so strange that they must be ‘fables’
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This was a time of vast darkness that affected the French and the modern world profoundly. It was a time where monarchs fell apart‚ whereas nationalism and democracy arose upon the hands of the civilians. A Tale of Two Cities‚ a novel written by Charles Dickens‚ takes place in France. Prior to Dickens writing his highly acclaimed novel‚ he compared his time era to France because the French authorities abused their privileges and struck poverty‚ violence‚ and injustice. Madame Defarge‚ who is the
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In A Tale of Two Cities‚ key elements of the plot revolve around the reader’s opinions of two opposing forces of the novel: the bloodthirsty revolutionaries and the decadent aristocracy. To his credit‚ Dickens does make allusions to some of the horrific acts indulged in by the French rebels‚ although examples of this are few and far between; he more often chooses to focus on the deplorable acts committed by the formerly ruling aristocracy. Though some may think that the disapproval for the revolution’s
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