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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Napoleon was one of the most important figures in European history. ...
In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte was remembered as the General and leader of the French army, the ruler of France as their First Consul, and the Emperor of France. Some thought positive of Napoleon, others thought negative of him, and Napoleon himself obviously thought positive of himself, too:
¡§Napoleon was a brilliant military commander who carefully planned each campaign, using speed, deception, and surprise to confuse and demoralize his opponents.¡¨
-Marvin Perry (Perry, 122)
¡§I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.¡¨ -Napoleon Bonaparte (Chew)
But, who was Napoleon Bonaparte really? He was the ¡§heroic ideal¡¨ to some (Christ). And what mattered about Napoleon was not the man himself but the idea that he stood for in the minds of his contemporaries. Napoleon embodied the ¡§heroic ideal¡¨ of the Enlightenment aspect of the French Revolution. This whole dilemma about who Napoleon really was is basically a situation of ¡§Reality vs. Perception¡¨ (Carey). The appeal of Napoleon being the ¡§heroic ideal¡¨ developed upon perspective:
¡§What a thing is imagination! Here are men who don¡¦t know me, who have never seen me, but who only knew of me, and they are moved by my prescence, they would do anything for me!¡¨
-Napoleon Bonaparte (Bonaparte, 123)
Some people, who have never met Napoleon, who have only heard of him, want to criticize his ideas and beliefs without fully knowing who he is. For example, Percy Bysshe Shelley, the author of the sonnet ¡§Ozymandias,¡¨ thought of Napoleon as an arrogant and egotistical tyrant. He thought of him this way, for...
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