Queen Elizabeth Thesis Statement

Thesis Statement: Elizabeth used her gender and expectations of what it meant to be a woman in the early modern period. She became Queen and successfully reigned through her years of being Queen. She justified her style but believing in what she beloved in and proved she did not have to change her ways.
In the 16th century a king was required to preserve order within his kingdom by giving justice to his people and to ride into battle to defend its borders against external threat. This job was roughly not created for women.
The word Queen was derived from the Anglo-Saxons means the wife of a king.
It was evidence that was specifically Elizabeth’s ability as a woman to exercise power successfully in a man’s world that carried her, the votes and commanded the respect of todays viewers.
Elizabeth built an expectation of femininity of gender to help justify her style of ruling. In modern period Elizabeth was born and queen in a time where women really did not have a say so. The roles of women in England were limited. Men were considered breadwinners. They were beneath men and expected to have kids and be housewives.
• Births would not have last long
• Kids

Her late half sister was ruler before Elizabeth who did not do a great job in ruling so Elizabeth had to come in and fix that. She succeeded in uniting her people in a world that was divided by religious conflict. She believed in the Almighty God. Elizabeth managed to make her religious settlement work, despite the conflicting religious interests in her country. She managed to restrain Catholic opposition and hold back the Puritan threat to her church. When she became Queen, the majority of her people were probably Catholic. When she died, the majority of her people were Protestant and content with the church as she established it. The fabric of her church is still in existence