Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Napoleon the Egotistical Dictator

Napoleon Bonaparte was a power hungry dictator and was only portrayed as great through his followers. Napoleon thought of himself as a waking god amongst regular men and allowed his ego to get the best of him. To most he may have had a good start to his career as being one of the youngest French men to accomplish what he had at that age, but his greatest ally became his greatest downfall, his brain. After his successions his fellow man made him out to be some sort of deity and Napoleon welcomed those thoughts and ideas into his mind.  Some of the many devilish things Napoleon did was the way he led his men and soldiers into death traps towards the end of his rule. He started thinking so high of himself that he stopped thinking all together and just went with his baring extinct instead of ever questioning his own self. Multiple people died under his reign and after his wife couldn’t bear a child he left the woman he was supposed to “love” and rather married again just to have kids so someone, probably preferably his own kin to take over after his death, because he couldn’t handle the thought of someone else taking his spot let alone someone not of blood. On top of all of this Napoleon had a revolution happen under him, which in itself shows that one’s people aren’t happy under the current conditions. This is why Napoleon isn’t a French hero.  


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