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This 3 page paper discusses the novel “The Gods Will Have Blood” by Anatole France and argues that while France found the Revolution to be necessary, its corrupting influence on those who participated in it is evil. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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led into taking horrible actions when they dont recognize the depths of that obsession. It also is a textbook lesson in the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely." Discussion In his
novel of the Revolution, Anatole France reflects on the attempts of the revolutionaries to create a new society via violent rebellion. The French Revolution came in 1789, only a few
years after America threw off English rule, also violently. The well-known rallying cry of the Revolution was "Libert?, ?galit?, fraternit? ou la mort," meaning "liberty, equality and fraternity (brotherhood) or
death" which are all noble ideals. The corruption of the aristocracy cannot be doubted and its clear that the French society as constituted on the eve of the Revolution could
not stand. Its also clear that the monarchy would not have given up its power voluntarily, and the abuses of the peasants would never have stopped. Thus, we can argue
that the Revolution was necessary, even admirable. But it soon turned into a monster that seemed to grow of is own accord until terror overwhelmed the entire country. Perhaps the
difference between the two revolutions was that Americans fought a military action against another military force, but the French used secret tribunals and finally suspended the rule of law leading
to the massacre of the aristocracy; it was class warfare at its ugliest. In a sense, one was in plain sight and one was shrouded in secrecy, where no one
was safe. In the novel, the turn from the rule of law to lawlessness, as well as the illustration of the corrupting influence of power, are both embodied in the
figure of the protagonist, a young artist named Evariste Gamelin. When the reader first meets him, Gamelin is an honorable young man, an idealist in fact, who is a dedicated
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