Oliver Cromwell Villain Essay

This work will look at three interpretations from different people on who Cromwell was and what he was like and compare them....

[tags: Oliver Cromwell, military, bias,] - The aim of this essay, is to answer the long-awaited question 'Was Oliver Cromwell a hero or a villain. James Heath once said "His name and memory stink." In opposition, Samuel Pepys said "People look back and praise him." True. This essay will argue Edmond Ludlow's words," How glorious, but then such betrayal!

The desire in France, the United Kingdom and Czechoslovakia to avoid war with Germany led to a policy of appeasement.

Through a series of meetings a consensus was reached, led by Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, which specified that Sudeten Germans had a legitimate complaint and Germany’s expansionistic intentions did not reach beyond the Sudetenland....

Oliver Cromwell was born April 25, 1599, in Huntingdon, England; near the end of the Elizabethan age (Kaplan 5)....

[tags: Biography] - Oliver Cromwell was born on April 25, 1599 to Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward, and died in 1658.He was registered at Sydney Sussex College in 1616, and left in 1617 after his father passed away.He had to return home to take care of his family and help his mother.All the actions he made were inspired by God, after long prayers and sleepless nights."Cromwell repeatedly claimed that God was controlling events, that his own actions were molded or directed by a very interventionist God, that he sought God's will on how he should proceed and that divine instruction shaped subsequent events." Although most of his self-determinations were difficult for him, the decision to support Charles I's sending to death was probably the most difficult one for him.Cromwell played a big part in the military as a soldier and a general.He was also a part of the English Parliament, which was somewhat corrupt during this time period.[tags: notorious English military, political leaders] - ...After the death of the king, Parliament ran England - but still, in Cromwell’s point of view this system did not work effectively." Oliver Cromwell was neither a hero nor a villain.The evidence and opinions gathered will state, how he went from good to bad, and from bad to evil....