help please urgently hwk for 2moz

[elerrina]

so about the title lol anyway i have to create a poster showing Robespierre as evil and the villain of the revolution could someone help me with this as i have no ideas lol

[dot.hawkes]

He had a pointed nose. Draw a Guillotine in the centre of the poster.

[jno]

he tried to shoot himself ... and missed. Ended up on the guillotine to which he had sent so many others. You could have him in the shadow of the guillotine

[maxi29]

He did try to shoot himself but didn't miss - he blew most of his jaw off and was taken to the guillotine terribly wounded.

IMHO, I always think that Robespierre gets a bit of a bad press. I don't think he'll go down in history as a great man but he was sincere in his beliefs, didn't use the revolution for his own benefit and acted for what he thought was best for France. But I realise that I hold the minority view on this one.

[jno]

sorry, I meant he missed the bit that would have left him dead. Blowing your jaw off doesn't really count. But it's instructive that he didn't want to face the fate he'd sent others to. In your account of him though, maxi, you could substitute Hitler for Robespierre and still be pretty accurate... sincerity isn't everything.

[maxi29]

No, jno, sincerity isn't everything but there are huge differences between Robespierre and Hitler. For a start, Hitler used his power for personal benefit, he courted business leaders to boost his wealth and even used his own name in his party's salute..very different from the more modest Robespierre. Secondly, Hitler's policy from the outset was the elimination of Jews and the preservation of an Aryan cultiure, Robespierre's was the good of France. Hitler advocated violence from the start, Robespierre was drawn into violence reluctantly.
The issue I mainly have is with the question: it's debatable whether he was a villain of the revolution. For a start, the question implies that the revolution was a bad thing, questionable in itself. Secondly, was he the worst 'villain'? That's even more debatable: it was Danton who created the Terror, Robespierre found himself drawn into it.
I'm not claiming that he was some sort of hero but I think that he was bascally a decent man who found himself in a situation that he couldn't cope with and resorted to acts of evil. History judges him badly as the pro-Dantonists wrote the history. Britain's opinions were shaped by Carlyle's hostility and the process was completed by fiction writers such as Buechner and Dickens. As I said, I think he gets a bad deal.