Oppression In The Palace Of Versailles

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Populations can endure a lot from others and become used to it as Michel Foucault said “there are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible-the new normal”. As long as there is something that is offered to them in exchange for the oppression, many will be willing to go along and make the sacrifices necessary. Oppression is more than believing one person is less than another. It is using fear of acceptance and the loss of their own life against someone to get them to agree to something. This can be seen in during many points in history. In the Palace of Versailles, those who were oppressed financially were promised to be accepted into Louis XIV’s daily life. The Indigenous of Canada were promised education for their children in the residential schools, but they instead were forced to …show more content…

And more recently, the people of New York and the world are now more prepared for an attack on public safety because of the terrorist attack on the World’s Trade Center. Each of these events sees people using tools against a group to become oppressed.
The expenses of Versailles created oppression on the people of France financially. Life at Versailles was designed to keep France above all of the other European powers by showing off their wealth. "As king of France [Louis XIV] was the embodiment of France — and his palace was meant to display the wealth and power of his nation" (Jarus, 2018). This meant that Versailles was as lavish as possible, Louis incorporated his father's small hunting lodge into the palace and added both a north and a south wing, along with nearby buildings that housed ministries. Versailles contained many gardens, statues,

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