Part one of term paper
Leo Tolstoy’s novel, , contains three kinds of material, a historical account of the Napoleonic wars, the biographies of fictional characters, and a set of essays about the philosophy of history. Critics from the 1860s to the present have wondered how these three parts cohere, and many have faulted Tolstoy for including the lengthy essays, ...

Part two of term paper
... egomaniacal buffoon who believes human beings are meager pons whose purpose is either to live or die on his behalf. As vividly displayed in chapter six when forty horses and men drowned crossing the turbid Niemen River. Tsar Alexander I is depicted as a phrasemaker obsessed with how historians will describe him, producing grandiose and flamboyant speeches. Pushkin continues, presenting the Russian general Mikhail Kutuzov (previously disparaged) as a patient old man whom understands the limitation ...