Political Cunningness In Vomsky And Chomsky's Catherine The Great

This pushed her to seek the help of a British ambassador who would teach her the trade secrets of political work. It was through this ambassador that she would learn to buy allies and information. This was the first time the audience becomes explicitly aware of the political cunningness that Catherine is capable of wielding. She uses this time in her life to gather resources to make well-educated decisions that gain her the most amount of power in the court. This is a very different perspective that the audience is seeing compared to Chomsky’s version. In Chomsky’s film, Catherine is portrayed as a frail young woman who is in constant need of help from her advisors to make any large decisions that may have any political danger. Between the

The directors present him as not being a drunken playboy, but a child who is a sickly orphan that is being raised by his cold and distant aunt, Elizabeth the Czarina. In Catherine the Great (2006), both Catherine and Peter are shown as not adolescents but prepubescent children who will mature at vastly different rates. They begin the film playing games with each other, but she quickly realizes that he will not grow out of his childish stage. This will lead to the power struggle that characterizes their marriage later in the film. Catherine will work on developing a plot to avoid Peter gaining the throne because he was a frail, unhealthy youth, and he will send her away to a nunnery if he becomes

The author uses Catherine’s actions as the method used to show the author’s perspective of Catherine to his audience. The first point is how Sumner portrayed her was similar to the second film in that she was seen as a strong, independent, and politically perceptive ruler. The author describes her as “more gifted and more filled with vitality than any other woman who had sat on the throne…” Catherine was a vehicle, which would bring change sweeping over Russia. B.H. Sumner shows the audience throughout the book, that to complete the massive amounts of internal reforms that Catherine accomplished during her reign, she needed to be a courageous adventurous person who was willing to take the risk to achieve their goals. One example used by Sumner to illustrate her willingness to take risks was in 1762 when she conspired to murder her husband, Peter, in order for her take the Russian throne. One facet of Catherine’s story that was not addressed in the two films was her fascination with the Enlightenment period. Sumner goes into detail about how the Enlightenment period heavily influenced her reign, policies enacted, and reforms