Assassination of Napoleon

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The Assassination of Napoleon is a fictional plot in Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace," in which the character Pierre Bezukhov contemplates killing Napoleon Bonaparte during the French invasion of Russia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional event
fictional plot
appearsIn War and Peace
appearsInLanguage Russian
hasAuthor Leo Tolstoy
hasCanonicalWork War and Peace
surface form: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
hasCharacterInvolved Napoleon Bonaparte
Pierre Bezukhov
Russian officers
hasCountryOfOriginOfWork Russian Empire
hasFictionalPerpetrator Pierre Bezukhov
hasIntendedVictim Napoleon Bonaparte
hasLiteraryFunction character development of Pierre Bezukhov
exploration of Tolstoy’s philosophy of history
hasLiteraryGenre historical novel
hasMedium novel
hasNarrativeStatus imagined by character
not realized in plot
hasOriginalTitleLanguage Russian
hasSetting Moscow
Russia
hasTheme free will
historical determinism
individual vs history
moral dilemma
patriotism
tyrannicide
hasTimePeriod 1812
Napoleonic Wars
hasWorkAuthor Leo Tolstoy
hasWorkPublicationCentury 19th century
isContainedInWork War and Peace
isDepictedAs unrealized plan
isFictionalRepresentationOf Napoleon Bonaparte
surface form: historical figure Napoleon Bonaparte
motivatedBy Pierre Bezukhov’s desire to end suffering
hatred of Napoleon’s tyranny
narrativeContext French invasion of Russia
outcome assassination not carried out
partOf War and Peace
relatedToEvent French invasion of Russia
surface form: French invasion of Russia in 1812

Burning of Moscow
surface form: French occupation of Moscow

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Pierre Bezukhov attempts Assassination of Napoleon