Broomhilda Von Shaft Essay

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Broomhilda and Eliza both are very attractive women who has the same personality and can be easily charmed by men. Broomhilda Von Shaft is the wife of Django and the former slave of Calvin Candie. Eliza Harris, wife of George Harris, is a relatively privileged slave of the Shelby’s and a devout Christian. Both Broomhilda and Eliza, one being a white women and the other being black were slaves and their masters were very rude to them. I want to show how women in movies or plays who are nice can be treated very badly sometimes while trying to prove their loyalty. In Django Unchained Broomhilda at the beginning when we see her is naked and locked in an underground torture chamber just because she tried to escape from the plantation. She is married to Django who is one of the main characters of the movie and they both separate ways after being sold by the …show more content…

After Mr. Shelby makes known his plans to sell Eliza’s son to Mr. Haley, she proves the force of her motherly love as well as her strength of spirit by making a spectacular escape. When she discovers that, contrary to the promises and the demands of human decency, her master is going to sell her young son Harry to the deceitful slave trader Mr. Haley, she immediately decides to run away. Gathering a few possessions, she disappears one night and heads for the Ohio River, hoping to make it across the border from Kentucky into Ohio – the South to the North – slavery to freedom. This also tells us how some women can make their own decisions and wish to do what they think is right for them to do rather than listen to their masters all the time and not have a happy life. In the case of Broomhilda she listened to everything her master had told her and did exactly how he wanted it after the fact that she was not treated like a human anymore and when Django comes to take her back she still has to follow orders and do exactly Candie the slave owner wants her to

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