This week in Maz's class, we are preparing for our meeting of the minds conversation and everyone has a different character from history. My character is Charlotte Corday, who died during the French Revolution, but not for reasons that you may think. She was not killed during battle, but was executed by the guillotine. Jean-Paul Marat was a person who wrote down lists of names of people to be executed, and the government thought his reasons for listing the following names should indeed be executed, so they were. Corday realized this was a killing spree of her own people that the government was allowing, so she took matters into her own hands. Preparing herself mentally, she decided that the only way this would end was if Marat died. She made a list of names, and scheduled an appointment with Marat to share her list of names he could use. Accepting her offer, Marat allowed her to come while he was bathing for a skin problem he had. Before she went, she left a letter explaining everything she was about to do for her country because she knew she would be caught in the end. At the meeting, she took a kitchen knife to Marat's throat and sliced it open, leaving him to die immediately. Going outside covered in blood, the police captured her and she was put on trial. Once found guilty, she was sent to be beheaded. On her way up to the blade, she screamed and cried because she was not ready to face a painful death. Corday made France realize two things; women needed to step up more for what they believed in and also the guillotine was not humane at all. Even though she did commit murder, she showed women how to step out of their boxes and do something for their people in order to bring peace back and less killings by the government.
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