Contextually speaking, Fear has the effect of crippling a person mentally. When a person is afraid, they are least likely to make the best decisions.
<h3>Do you think the tsarina Alexandra's actions were motivated mostly by fear, by trust, or by something else? </h3>
Fearing for the health of her hemophiliac son, Tsarina Alexandra granted the self-proclaimed holy man and healer Grigori Rasputin a degree of control that irreversibly damaged the Russian government.
Walsh uses the unpleasant intimacies of Alexandra's letters to her husband as proof.
And he critiques the empress on two familiar, opposing fronts: On the one hand, she is frail and too emotional, too preoccupied with motherly concerns to comprehend the larger picture of Russian politics.
On the other hand, she's assertive and overbearing, pushing outside her role as a mother to advise her husband on governance.
She is characterized as a femme fatale who takes a "subtle approach to political concerns... via the doorway of the Tsar's emotions."
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