In analysis of Vera Figner’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Figner expressed a few political goals that led her to assume violence as the only answer to the economic, political, and social injustices forced upon the peasants, by the government authority and Russian traditions. All of Figner’s energy was spent in effort to achieve these goals at any cost. These goals were to use influential propaganda, to educate the peasants1, and to kill the Tsar. All of which, were used to motivate a peasant uprising, to remove2 the suppressive Tsarist regime and to give birth to democratically3 free institutions4. To justify her violent means, she used her personal belief that there were no other peaceful ways, that they had not tried, to provide liberty and justice for the peasants.5
In general, the contrast between human nature in Gogol’s Ukrainian tales and human nature in his Petersburg tales is striking. Whereas in his Ukrainian tales Gogol is genuinely fulsome in his praise of the ways of ordinary Ukrainian people, in his Petersburg tales Gogol is unsparing in his criticism of high social stations. This, however, should not be interpreted that Gogol praised all Ukrainians and ridiculed all Russians. Instead, he lauded the ways of common people and criticized the coxcombry of the bureaucrats and
Whilst they both love hunting the Czar likes hunting people. Therefore if is Caught he will die, but if he isn't caught over the course of the three days. The Czar will die furthermore making the new Czar. Throughout the story the narrator, Richard Connell, uses imagery, dramatic
Kadie Hume Mrs.Conley English 10 March 14, 2023 Charles Manson & the Manson family cult You know Charles Manson as a serial killer or to have led a cult, but did you know he never actually killed anyone himself? Yes, that's true, he made others do his dirty work for him, even though in the end he still got caught. If you didn't already know, Charles Manson is known as an American criminal and cult leader who led his followers to carry out and commit several murders in the late 1960’s, resulting in life in prison for 4 decades until he passed away in 2017. Charles Milles Maddox was born November 12th, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio to his mother Kathleen Maddox who was a 15 year old troubled runaway teen from Morehead, KY.
Tolstoy depicts Ivan as a man who thrives off materialistic ideas due to the bourgeois society. Tolstoy’s novella focuses on a very ordinary man
During the nineteenth century, there weren’t many Industrial centers around this time, while there were some like the iron and copper manufacture in the regions of the Ural Mountains and factory areas of Saint Petersburg and Moscow. When Russia defeated Japan there was a massive peasant rebellion and strikes that people were terrified. Vladimir Lenin stepped in as the leader of the Bolshevik’s and came up with the thought of forming the communist party. Lenin was determined to get rid of the tsar and nobles creating a communist society. Nicholas II was a Tsar and the last Emperor of Russia that Lenin was determined to get rid of him.
The oral presentations are crucial to fully grasp the stories of Anton Chekhov since a reader must be familiar with the context of 19th century Russia to understand his realist depictions. Exploration towards the emancipation of serfdom, the Russian Wedding Cake, and the role of religion became insightful to understanding the livelihoods of Russians at the time. One particular fact that strikes attention is the concept of serfdom: a term describing serfs or slave, who represented 80 percent of the Russian population at the time. Their attempt of liberation through the Emancipation of Serfdom in 1861 not only marks a failure, but brought forth greater misfortunes, as serfs became more bounded to masters by a 49-year state mortgage
But oddness and eccentricity interfere with rather than help in the uniting of the strands and in the finding of some sort of common meaning in the general confusion.” (Dostoyevsky, xiii) After a long story we are back to the beginning questioning the author’s choice of a hero. The brothers in this story had been separate for some time; after being reunited the reader can clearly see the difference in character between one another. The three big characters I believe were important in the author’s decision were between Ivan, Dmitri, and Alyosha.
Russia in the time of Crime and Punishment experiences widespread political debate and reform, and the intellectualism that had flourished in Russia for many years branched into several schools of thought. No one group had united goals or methods but encompassed wide ranges of people with various political beliefs; Dostoyevsky often participated in such groups and maintained throughout his life an interest in intellectualism and politics. He uses his knowledge of the inner workings of Russia’s progressives to develop realistic characters with connections to his current culture. Dostoyevsky’s characters such as Sonia, Lebeziatnikov, and Luzhin reflect different political tropes in late 19th century Russia and provide suspense, humor, or conflict to the novel’s plot.
Extract one which was adapted from Leon Trotsky in 1977, in the extract they talk about how important Lenin was for the Russian Revolution “Without Lenin the crisis would have assumed an extraordinarily sharp and protracted character” meaning that without lenin the crisis would be long lasting one. Later in the extract another quote links with this “The role of personality arises before us here on a truly gigantic scale” showing that this extracts interpretation is that Lenin was the mastermind and the planner of the October revolution so basically saying that the october revolution started on the 3rd of April 1917 when Lenin arrived in petrograd. When talking about the last quotes I talked about how it meant lenin made the revolution happen extract two has a similar interpretation of what happened and how the Russian Revolution occured in the extract they use
Moreover, After Raskolnikov has confessed to the murder, he is sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Siberia, which is described as, “on the bank of a wide, lonely river there is a town, one of Russia’s administration centres; in the town there is a fortress, in the fortress a prison, “(637). Raskolnikov’s prison sentence is symbolic of the consequences of violent revolution. The wide, lonely river represents how the proletariat will become alienated from society because of poverty. Moreover, because Dostoevsky describes the river as described as wide, it also indicates that the alienation that the proletariat experience will become worse after the revolution. The town is also described as having a fortress.
Folk tales have been used again and again to continue the traditions from one generation to the next. In “Snow White”, the Brothers Grimm, show the power and struggle of the characters, and the differences between the lower-class and the upper-class. In “Snow White” Grimm and Grimm illustrate that the lower-class is struggling for a better life, even if they are always working and not having an equal economic situation. This is shown through the seven little dwarfs when they always work, but, unfortunately, the higher social class did not care about them. Using a lens of Marxist Literary Theory, I am going to critique the political power and economic struggle between the upper and the lower class in “Snow White”.
It portrays the 1917 Russian Revolution atmosphere with the replacement of Russia into Animal Farm. The characters also did not fail to resemble the real people involved in the revolution. Power leads to greed, used to take advantage and manipulate. A person with absolute power tends to choose greediness after a certain time period, despite having followed a wise person’s vision and mission.
This project is interesting because it looks at the fact that the people had been working towards a new society which provided greater equality, changes which some wanted to obtain through peaceful means, but having been denied real progress for too long, along with the volatile contemporary events, developed an air of high-pressured tensions. I expect readers of this project to learn that the Russian Revolution had numerous precursors, and that many of the tsars of the 19th century struggled to understand at the time what these precursors were preluding to, which contributed to the vacillation of the last few
The Bolshevik government led by Vladimir Lenin, exploited the political climate by emphasizing the needs and importance of the working class to effectively seize power from the Provisional Government. The Bolshevik government created the slogan “Peace, bread, land” to echo the common concerns of the working-class and announced the decree of peace, land and workers, which promised to give peasants the right to their own land and a fair minimum wage. Lenin established his “April Thesis” which outlined ten demands and announced them on 17 April 1917. Lenin wrote his April Theses traveling back to Russia after being in exile in Switzerland for fifteen years. His theses contributed greatly to the July Days uprising, between the third and seventh
