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French Revolution Allegory Angelica
1 event - Meeting of Estates General
Signaled the outbreak of French Revolution. Due to the financial emergency happening to France, The Estates-General of. In finding out about the emergency and perceiving that the two different Estates could undoubtedly put the weight of settling the emergency on the ordinary people through charges, the Third Estate shaped their own National Assembly.
Estates-general
2 event - Storming of the Bastille Prison
Rebel parisians
Bernard-René de Launay
Debut of the revolution: When Jacques Necker was terminated by the king. Necker was thoughtful to the National Assembly, and the French considered his excusal to be an immediate assault on the Assembly. Accordingly, a gathering of furious French residents raged at the Bastille Prison in Paris on July 14, 1789.
3 event- Declaration of the Rights of Man
National Assembly
Beginning of democracy
Provides basic civil rights to commoners
This happened on August 26, 1789. This document declares that all individuals were born free and equal and it provides basic civil rights to the population.
4 event - The March on Versailles
Women of France
Stanislas-Marie Maillard
Signals the overall change of power and reformation in France, people's power, feminism
Due to excessive and unreasonable spending and unfortunate collects, individuals of France were going hungry. In addition, the lord raised the cost of bread to compensate for his monetary problems.Hence, On October 5, 1789, a gathering of for the most part ladies walked from Paris to Versailles.
5 event - King's Execution
King Louis XVI
Signifies the end of monarchy
January 21, 1793
The king was executed by guillotine
The allegory would be in a setting of a dystopian society. In a castle.
One day, loud noises woke her up. There were sounds of groans, metal clashing, and it smells like iron. The echoes of the voices travel way through up the tower, but she can’t see beyond the clouds. An hour later, the noises suddenly vanished and it turned into a deafening silence.
The story will begin with a mysterious woman locked up in a castle way above the clouds, a tower wherein she can only hear echoes of the unknown. She sometimes shouts but no one seems to respond and all she does is weave tapestries.
Days of pondering led her to utter curiosity. As she weaves and weaves, the tapestries reach the window, and this is when her curiosity and bravery takes over and she decides to descend using the tapestry. As she descended, the smell of iron got stronger and when she finally reached the bottom, it was a bloodbath all over. There were people who’s almost thin like paper, and there were thousands of lifeless bodies.
She then decided to come back to the tower and then she realized that there are thousands of humans out there, and maybe, she thought that there are also people who're similar to her. One who also lives in a tower high above the clouds; hence, she tried to create long enough tapestries to reach the other towers. At the end, all of them went down from their towers and walked across the town as if it was their first time.
Charachters
Louis XVI: Immature, austere, indecisive
Marie-Antoinette: Oblivious, extravagant, frivolous
Olympe de Gouges: Brave, radical, feminist activist
Conflict: King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoneitte were the rules while Olympe and Emmanuel were the individuals who bravely contributed to the revolution.
Emmanuel Joseph Sieses: Influential, unwavering, enlightened
Moral, Message, Ideas or Opinions
Equity and fairness are powerful factors which can transform the whole society.
Equity was not achieved, an ideology had surfaced
Equity is a concept that could never truly work in a society, all humans have different needs and support which would be difficult for them to be treated with the same status. Equality is a more realistic topic as people could be treated with the same circumstances.
They wanted liberty, equality and fraternity. It had failed to achieve all of it goals and caused a blood bath.
The french revolution shaped modern nations by showing the world the power is involved in the will of people
The revolution became inevitable. It was caused by a financial crisis
Liberty and equality cannot both coexist, it is not possible in a society
Goals that are set and done too fast or too far, cannot abe achieved as there are obstacles in the way
Things can get in the way of accomplishing equity.
Change in a society causes structure and hierarchy to occur.
