The French Revolution: Napoleon's Opportunist

Napoleon is an opportunist who took advantage of the instability created by the French revolution to seize power and then to initiate a series of wars which further devastated Europe. First of all, Napoleon's own selfish desire caused additional bloodshed. Next, Napoleon's unfaithful behaviors highlighted Napoleon never follows the rule properly and always attempted to break rules. Last but not least, Napoleon's ruthless style showed Napoleon has only attached importance to the results and ignored the cardinal process. On the whole, Napoleon is an opportunist because of Napoleon's selfish desire, the unfaithful behaviors, and the ruthless style. Napoleon is an opportunist that can prove by Napoleon's own selfish desire. In the history,

Napoleon intended to reach the dream about the conqueror of Europe, by hook or by crook. As the result, Napoleon became unfaithful to France, and Napoleon was unfaithful to the marriage too. For the country, Napoleon won a lot of wars and lands for France. Nevertheless, Napoleon 's jumping-off point was the personal power rather than the benefit of France. For the marriage, Napoleon was unfaithful to both wives. Napoleon's famous lover is Marie Walewska, Polish Countess (1789-1817). So Napoleon had an affair during both relationships. Napoleon may have had three further unacknowledged illegitimate offspring as well three boys, one girl.(Slide 10) Other than that, Napoleon was also unfaithful to lovers because Napoleon had numerous lovers around like many other great leaders did. So at the end of Napoleon's life, Napoleon was isolating on a small island without any family members until Napoleon died. In conclusion, Napoleon had been unfaithful to the country, wives, and

Which was describing why Napoleon doesn't care about the important process and only concentrated on the result. For instance, in 1812, the battle in Russia was finishing, but Napoleon never apologized to all innocent French soldiers in public. Instead, in October 1813, Napoleon started a new battle in Germany. Secondly, Napoleon had many lovers during the whole life, so at this point, Napoleon wasn't deeply in love with anyone and all Napoleon wanted is different women around and didn't mind what kind of means to an end. During his Egyptian campaign, he took Pauline Bellisle Foures, the wife of a junior officer, as his mistress.(Slide 10) Thirdly, Napoleon never helped other countries on wars, so France won't lose any of soldiers by unnecessary wars. Also, Napoleon could send the French Army to combat at any time. Accordingly, after Napoleon passed away, people didn’t praise anything about Napoleon's morality and character. In short, Napoleon's ruthless style reflected on French soldiers' death, numerous lovers, and never help other countries on wars, thus Napoleon is an