however isn’t a typical hero- in actual facts many people wouldn’t even consider him to be a hero at all. Cromwell is a controversial figure who still has people wondering. Even now in the new millennium‚ people are still contemplating his place in history- hero or villain? Cromwell proudly took his place in a documentary on the top ten best Britons‚ and ironically‚ also in the top ten worst Britons. In this essay I will assess whether these acts made him a hero or a villain‚ using contemporary views
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John Brown is a villain due to his acts with the slaves‚ his killings in Pottawatomie Creek‚ Kansas and Missouri. He got noticed for these acts but not in the way that you would think. John brown was born on May 9‚1800. He was a sympathizer to the North. This is not true. John Brown has a very dark past. He has murdered people who murdered other people. Some people might call that gallant. It was an antihero act. John Brown was a villain. John Brown had an idea that if he killed the slave owners
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Heights‚ it can be seen that Heathcliff is a social outcast‚ not fitting in with anything the other inhabitants of Wuthering Heights do. Any reader of the book produces completely different views on Heathcliff which represents even more so that he is misunderstood by many people. There are different characteristics that critics have labelled Heathcliff‚ some include a social misfit‚ a devil from hell‚ or something completely different by labelling him a romantic or gothic hero. The different characteristics
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Napoleon Bonaparte was inarguably an important figure in the history of France and Europe. However‚ there has been much controversy over the subject in the past. Would history perceive him as a hero or an enemy of France and the world? Many twentieth-century dictators would later model themselves on Napoleon‚ more than a hundred years after his death. Napoleon was not the first dictator‚ so why was he such an important figurehead for future dictators? Some historians may consider that Napoleon was
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I believe Macbeth is both a victim and a villain and over the course of the play his character changes. Macbeth is a tragic hero because he possessed qualities of hero: a person from a noble family‚ basically good‚ but‚ plagued by his ambition‚ ends up committing horrible act‚ bringing his own downfall‚ leaving us with pity and terror. Macbeth is a victim of fate because of the three witches‚ the influence of his wife‚ and his own fears. Because the witches fueled his greed by telling him how no
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Christopher Columbus was a villain because he promoted slavery and brought new diseases to the Americas. Christopher Columbus promoted the enslavement of the natives. For example‚ He wrote in his diary on October twelfth‚ “…that the people are ingenious‚ and would be good servants…” (Halsall). This shows that Columbus believed that these people would be good slaves‚ so therefore he could take them. This is important because Columbus was only thinking of himself and was encouraging slavery. Furthermore
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From the devastating fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey‚ to the rise of his successor‚ the relentless Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell‚ throughout the course of English history has continually been portrayed as the main villain during Henry VIII’s reign‚ aside from Henry himself of course. A man‚ who thought nothing of betraying friends or allies in his conquest to secure the most notorious career in history. Since Henry VIII sent his chief minister and close advisor to the scaffold five centuries ago on 28
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For my history project I chose the Villain Adolf Hitler. I chose him because he was obviously a significant villain in history leading to the death of millions. He was born in 1889 in Branau‚ Austria. He moved to Vienna when he was young but failed to get into the Arts Academy. He remained in Vienna as a bit of a failed artist until 1913 when he moved to Germany after failing the medical for the Austrian army. In 1914 he volunteered for the German Army for World War 1. He fought on the Western front
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explaining why he was an outlaw in his own time. For my penultimate point‚ I will explain how we are giving today’s youth a very bad role model! And for my last point‚ I will demonstrate how if Robin Hood were alive today‚ he would not be a revered hero‚ but an inmate in a maximum-security prison. Let me begin. Nobody is quite sure when Robin Hood existed. Every website‚ book‚ or reference paper tells a different story. The earliest he could have lived is the middle 1200s‚ and the latest is around
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Wuthering Heights‚ one of the main characters‚ Heathcliff‚ makes this transition from the beginning of the story to end. At first ‚ he is sympathetically portrayed as a boy who was shoved into the Earnshaw family‚ then he becomes this innocent boy who has this never ending love for Catherine Earnshaw‚ and finally he transforms into this extremely revengeful man who will stop at nothing to try and undo all the wrong things that were done to him. Heathcliff goes from being the victim of the story‚ to
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