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| Article Name : | | | VIOLENCE IN THE PACIFISTIC AMBIENCE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | | Author Name : | | | MRUTYUNJAYA MOHANTY | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2479 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | In contradistinction to other revolutions of the world, the American Revolution is discerned by a dominant presence of ideas and by the expression of a filial love for the adversary. An atmosphere replete with the reception and dissemination of ideas inevitably impelled the colonists to deal with their problems in ways other than violent, more so when their adversaries happened to belong to their own race; they were their own kinsmen with whom they not only associated themselves but also about whom they felt proud of. Even a person like Benjamin Franklin, as Wood has argued in The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, expressed his loyalty to the Crown until very long and ardently aspired to play a significant part in the British Empire's power structure. The racial kinship and ancestry of the American colonists with the people of England gave birth to the expression of a filial love for the Imperial kingdom of Great Britain, in their struggle during the Revolution, which was pathetic, almost convulsive in its nature. And hence, while a revolution is usually marked by a feeling of belligerence toward the adversary and witnesses large scale violence and genocide, the dominant presence of these two elements, idea and filial love, made the American Revolution almost a pacifistic movement until the very last phase, and made it both an intellectual and an emotional epic story. | | Keywords : | | |
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