1. The Other Boleyn Girl film takes place in the 16th century. 2. The women did not have voices, they were not allowed to speak on their free will. Women had to go along with what their husbands did/said. 3. The main characters in the film are, Mary and Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII, Thomas Boleyn, and The Duke of Norfolk. 4. Some historical events in the film were court. The court decides your punishments and then puts them to action. One of those being, the beheading death event that the community attends to watch someone die because they have committed a crime. 5. The movie is set inside and outside, majority of inside though. The weather depends on situations or events that are happening in the film. For example, when Mary was celebrating her after party for her wedding with friends, the sun was shinny bright and it was a beautiful day. And when Mary’s sister Anne was getting her punishment for treason by getting beheaded, outside was looking cold and dark. The sky was filled with grey clouds, and the ground was looking damp, like rain had just fallen. The king’s castle was a modern building or mansion. The forest was filled with a lot of spaced out tall and skinny trees. It seemed to be summer because of how the leaves on the branches were grown. It could have also been late spring because of the clothing the characters were wearing. The scenery looked like summer but they dressed as if it were spring, due to their long, …show more content…
heavy, and full body covered clothes. 6.
a. female children usually left their hair out/down. Boys, had their hair cut short. Not a fresh cut to the point where you could almost see their scalp, but short where if they recently cut their hair because they had long hair before and wanted a change. Girls/women wore dresses Women had variety of hats, they wore gowns, dresses of different shades of colors and fabrics. Men regardless of the ranking wore male dresses, which included leggings, tunic and cloak. Hats were commonly worn. Their shoes were made of
leather. b. The Boleyn family house. Its appearance has kind of a Gothic vibe to it. It is surrounded by water and a wall like an English Manor house in the medieval period. It has Y tracery windows. I think they chose this building to demonstrate that the Boleyn family are a piece of the high society on the grounds that English homes are possessed by kings. In the film, this building is important because this is the place where it all begun, where the Boleyn sisters grew up, and where the King made a visit to the Boleyn house to bed Anne. c. Their transportation mostly consisted of horses, and walking, and if sent away by boat. 7. I was impressed with the way the film kept me intrigued the whole entire time. The acting was very well done in my opinion. Their facial expressions were realistic to the problems that they were facing. I didn’t like the ending of the film. I didn’t like how things turned out for everyone. They got what they deserved but for my own pleasure I would have liked to see a bit more of my definition of justice. 8. King Henry VIII of England and his wife Katherine are having issues over the failure to conceive a male child. Henry summons the Boleyn family, Thomas Boleyn and the Duke of Norfolk to his court. The Boleyn's unique arrangement is to have Anne the oldest, to be Henry's Mistress. On the other hand, Henry rather has his eyes on the other sister Mary, ignoring the fact that she’s married to William Carey. She conceives a child by Henry, yet they are not wedded and she is looked downward on because of Anne. Sir Thomas and the Duke of Norfolk, Lady Elizabeth's sibling, do whatever they can to secure a position of benefit in the court by having the Boleyn kids do whatever satisfies the King. Anne is given another opportunity to return after a marriage that was not allowed and afterward revoked, but rather King Henry then looks to her and wishes her to offer herself to him, yet she sets up a battle and lets him know not until she accepts the crown and to be his wife. At the same time she neglects to issue him a child, her life and her brothers relies on it unfortunately.
This practice was foreign to the time period because women do not usually have a voice. Children are inferior and are required to learn the ways to be able to be an
Before Elizabeth Cady Stanton had any impact and attempts to start speeches like her “the solitude to self” speech or her speeches at Seneca Falls. Most women were treated as a cook and a maid, they stayed home to take care of the children. They were to be bossed around by their husband. It was actually better off if a woman was single or widowed. Also, all women were not allowed to vote. Women had a say in typically nothing that is until Elizabeth finally took a stand.
They had no right to do anything other than what they were supposed to do. They did not have the same rights as men did. They were considered to be nothing but a form of maid to their husband. They were not allowed to have a say in anything including themselves. Their opinion was not as valuable as men. Gender roles are institutionalized in Pleasantville through the way women and men were expected to do certain roles. In the film women were expected to do the housework and stay at home. It was not normal for a women to work or to not have dinner made .A woman was supposed to stay in the house with the kids, prepare food for the family and have it ready when the husband came back from work. They were also expected to look beautiful at all times with their makeup and hair done so they can look attractive for their husbands. They were to not worry about a thing because It was not allowed for them to worry about anything since they only had to worry about pleasing their husband. They were also supposed to act “ladylike” because anything other than this was not accepted in their village. Men were the only workers in the family and were the sole provider because women were not allowed to work. Being the sole provider gave them power over their family which contributed to the feeling of male superiority and gave women less power in the household. They were also to be the decision makers of the family. The gender of a person determined everything. It determine how you were supposed to act and what was your role within your family. Gender roles also dictated how each gender is to speak, think, act, and engage with each
Women were put under heavy strain due to cultural expectations and norms. They were expected to be under their family's beck and call 24 hours a day and while husbands could escape household pressures such as screaming children, by going to the pub with their friends, women could never even dream of that kind of freedom.
Men and women were seen to live in separate social class from the men where women were considered not only physically weaker, but morally superior to men. This meant that women were the best suited for the domestic role of keeping the house. Women were not allowed in the public circle and forbidden to be involved with politics and economic affairs as the men made all the
submissive, powerless objects of their husbands. Equality and balance within their marriages were of no
Mainly because women weren’t fully exposed to the happenings outside of the home, which led to the male figure believing that it was impossible for women to vote if they didn’t know the facts. Men thought that if women were able to vote, that they would reach a power, that they could not take away and they didn’t want that. Men wanted to be the head of the household and everything else in between. There were many women, who thought the fact of not being able to vote was outrageous. They wanted the same rights as men, and nothing was going to stop them.
"Women were denied knowledge of their history, and thus each woman had to argue as though no woman before her had ever thought or written. Women had to use their energy to reinvent the wheel, over and over again, generation after generation. ... thinking women of each generation had to waste their time, energy and talent on constructing their argument anew. Generation after generation, in the face of recurrent discontinuities, women thought their way around and out from under patriarchal thought." (Lerner qtd in Merrim Modern Women xxiii)
Women felt like they were being confined almost like in a jail, since they were stuck in the house, hidden away from society. Just like in the “Poor Singing Dame” the poor woman got thrown in jail where she died just because she would not stop expressing her feeling of happiness even though she was not wealthy. “Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right! Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest; O born to rule in partial Law 's despite” (Barbauld, Lines 1-3) and “He sent his bold yeomen with threats to prevent her, And still would she carol her sweet roundelay; At last, an old steward relentless he sent her- Who bore her, all trembling, to prison away!”(Robinson, Lines 36-40). This shows that women started to feel like they needed to tell men to step aside from their role as rulers and leaders in society, and instead accept that women can rule just as good as any
However, the lives of these women were not as easy as it may have seemed. In retrospect, their roles, although seemingly wonderful, were actually oppressive. They were taught to be obedient and loyal to their husbands . Their opinions were devalued, and they were thought of as nothing more than an accessory to their husbands.
The Crucible shows that women had no say so in how their life and marriage went. Their husbands spoke for them. The only task women had to worry about was reproducing, praying, and understanding their place in the family. Farming was usually run by the farmer and his wife. The woman usually fed the chickens, collected the eggs, or did the milking. Being a midwife was also very important to the community. It was usually run by two women, who helped with childbirth. Spinning wool and flax into thread was a very important task due to the limitation of fabrics during this time. Children usually helped their mothers tend to the farm, or became servants in homes at a very young age. Working as a servant was done by young girls, until she and her prospective husband had saved enough money to start a business, and or get married.
The women and girls were all dressed in skirts that covered their knees. The majority, but not all of the women, had very long hair that they wore down while others had it neatly tied up in elaborate buns. The men appeared to keep their hair short and if they had facial hair, it was neatly trimmed. The majority of the young men were dressed in black dress pants and shirt and tie, howev...
Women could initiate legal proceedings, and they were responsible for their own actions. They could be the executors of wills and even sign their own marriage contrac...
in the warm climate the men wore long shirts and legging to protect their legs. They also wore breech clothes is a long rectangular piece. The women wore long dresses. In the winter both men and women wore long robes to keep them worm. they also wore a shoe called moccasin which made of animals
The two adaptations after the controversial novel “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory present a historical fictional story of the Boleyn sisters, Anne and Mary. This is a ravishing, emotionally intense story of love, loyalty and betrayal in the chase for power and social position, portraying the human desires and flaws in a beautifully described historical background at the English court. The private life of the historical figures from the XVIth century and the intrigues hidden behind the official documents is quite an ambiguous, curiously challenging segment of time, from the historical point of view. The book, and the two film adaptations after – “The Other Boleyn Girl” explore the uncertain times in the life of Henry the VIIIth, before deciding to divorce Katherine of Aragorn, remarry Anne Boleyn and start the Church of England.