How Did Leo Tolstoy's Impact On Russia

In the 17th century, Russia was considered as a backwards and barbaric country in the eyes of the major powers of Europe. In 1696, Peter Alekseyevich Romanov took reign over the Russian culture. During his time as ruler, he improved most aspects to the way of life for the Russian culture. Peter Alekseyevich Romanov, also well known as Peter The Great, ruled the Russian culture from 1696 to 1726. During his reign, Peter wanted to do many things to change the way of life of Russian culture.

Considering the needless suffering caused by Putin’s actions, decisions, and behaviors, I strive to be an ethical leader, considering the diversity of the airmen within my own sphere of

One part of society thinks that his style of leadership is dictatorship because of his manner of ruling, however the other part believes that he is a participative leader as he is elected in a democratic way. (Jeremy Kinsman, 2013) What if there is a mixed leadership styles which are not created yet? This essay attempt to create a new “hidden” type of

Hamlet and Masculinity What defines society’s portrait of a man? Perhaps it is his fighting skill, his ability to lead, or his valiency. Within the play by William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Hamlet is a prince who struggles with his father’s death and lacks any sense of responsibility. He spends the whole play making excuses and never facing his problems head on.

When Macbeth was thinking about Duncan as a king, he realized: “Besides, this Duncan/ Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been/ So clear in his great office, that his virtues/ Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against/ The deep damnation of his taking-off.” (1.7.16-19) This quote stated his concerns of how he will be treated by people after the murder. He is battling his ambition with his morals.

Motivated by his love for catherine and his single-minded desire for revenge against the people of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange The conflict ends with the death of Heathcliff, as the two surviving characters (Hareton and Cathy) attempt to move on from the destruction Hareton’s adopted father (and Cathy’s father-in-law) caused, and do what he could never do (live with the love of his life). Heathcliff’s love and passion for Catherine leads to most of the novel’s events, reinforcing the novel’s themes of extreme passions leading to an extreme

Old King Hamlet's ghost describes his death in Act I, Scene 5 of Hamlet by relating what really happened to him. King Hamlet’s ghost tells Hamlet that he died by his brother’s hand, which is treachery at its finest. He deprived the King of his life, his queen, his crown, and his kingdom. This haunts him greatly and Claudius’ murderous actions are responsible for this, as he cut the King’s life short when he still had things to resolve in his life. He says that what he will tell Hamlet will cause Hamlet to seek revenge.

Meanwhile, he wandered that all humans were capable of suicide, but they chose to bare the cruelty, pain of the world, instead of suiciding themselves. This essay aims to analyze the reason human beings chose to live by analyzing the texts morally, religiously, and aesthetically. Hamlet thought his life was so miserable to accept, so he wanted release. “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt” (I.ii 129-158) was emerged after he was not able to leave Denmark and forced to live with his remarried mother and his disgust step-father (his

“A man will commit almost any wrong—he will heap up an immense pile of wickedness, as hard as granite, and which will weigh heavily upon his soul, to eternal ages—only to build a great, gloomy, dark-chambered mansion, for himself to die in, and for his posterity to be miserable in. He lays his own dead corpse beneath the underpinning, as one may say, and hangs his frowning picture on the wall, and, after thus converting himself into an Evil Destiny, expects his remotest great-grandchildren to be happy there!” (Hawthorne 226). Man’s greed is so inherently engrained in the being that man would be in charge of his own unhappiness. The fall of man is the original sin of greed.

At this point in the story, readers begin to infer on who is going to live and who is going to die. In the end, everyone but Hamlet’s best man, Horatio, lives. This act of violence began the tragedy of this story. As a whole, this story is full of pain, disappointment, and lack of trust. Hamlet trusted no one and it got him far, but not far enough.

Another implementation was the pushing of Russian Elite to imitate European fashions to conform to western styles. And to out an end to the seclusion of higher class Russian women, Peter required officials to have their wives accompany them to social gatherings at the capital, as well as directing nobles to educate their children. The difference of the modernization of Russia and Europe came with the rise of Peter the Great. Russia was no longer vied as a backward nation suck in medieval times, but as a dominant player in the balance of power in Europe. Peter buried himself into learning and acquiring skills in blacksmithing, shipbuilding, and war arts, which assisted in the building of Russia’s first Navy, which modernized the field of Naval power.

Peter made sure that people followed his reforms and his agenda for Russia by making decrees to follow such as cultural decrees that taxed people who did not conform to the new ways like a decree that taxed upperclassmen who did not dress in a European style. There were some revolts and some violence caused by these oppositions but Peter eventually stopped all of them and overall his reforms in Russia were a

The zemstvo (local government) reform was placed in early 1864, it introduced an electoral self- governing body that would be elected from all class groups. Overall, the basic points of the zemstvo reform was electivity, representation of all classes and self government. The second reform, judicial reform was placed in late 1864. Previous to the judicial reform, Russia had an awful judicial system that contained corruption, backlogged cases, unbalanced power, etc. With the help of this reform, Russia’s judicial system was transformed overnight.

Reforms can be beneficial or detrimental an emerging empire. During his reign, Peter the Great implemented many reforms that expedited the Europeanization of Europe. Many of these reforms were viewed as negative by society and many were against them. However, most of them did what was intended to help modernize Russia. With his newfound knowledge of city-building, he built the city of St. Petersburg, which Shaw 6 became the new capitol of Russia.

World War I altered the lives of millions of people in one way or another, even if they were not fighting on the front lines. The citizens of European countries involved in the war saw and felt the economic, social, and political repercussions of war. The war was started due to militarism, an entangled web of alliances, strong senses of nationalism, imperialism, and the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. In the early years of the war, the battles were glorified throughout most of Europe, while in the later years of the war, the people at home were tried of the negative effects of the war consuming their own lives; throughout Russia, however, there was a negative rhetoric from the beginning of the war. Europe was war-hungry