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English, 05.01.2020 08:31 blazecarley

*** me asap*** which sentences in this excerpt from emmuska orczy's the scarlet pimpernel show the perspective that the french revolution was barbaric?

a. a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

b. the hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the west barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

c. during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

d. it was to be seen every day, for those aristos were such fools!

e. they were traitors to the people of course, all of them, men, women, and children, who happened to be descendants of the great men who since the crusades had made the glory of france: her old noblesse.

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