Millicent Fawcett Essay Question

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How far do the sources suggest that Millicent Fawcett was ‘quite unfit to be a leader’. Overall, sources 12 and the early stages of source 10 approve of Millicent Fawcett, suggesting she comes across as a positive leader, with Source 10 praising her as being ‘quite public spirited’, demonstrating that she has the power to reflect her feelings, and that she hides nothing. However, source 11 and the end of source 10 suggest that she acts poorly, with source 11 contraciting the early parts of source 10 by calling her ‘inaudible’, and therefore doesn’t make a good leader. Although, sosurce 11 should be degraded slightly, aas its negativity i due to the fact, the author, Webster, is a supporter of an opposing, more militant, Suffrage society, the WSPU. Equally, George Robertson, whom John SStuart Mill is experessing his opinions to in source 10, is likely to have outside motives. Source 12 may therefore by the most reliable, since it is written in hindsight, although the interpretation of source 10 gives an almot balanced viewpoint, in the end saying she was slightly more ‘unfit to be a leader’ than a good role model for leadership. However, ovrall the sources suggest that she is more a good leader than not, but she needs to develop her tactics, despite her positive personality. Source 10 evently opens with approval of Millicent Garrett Fawcett’s outgoing personality, as ‘quite publicly spirited’, although this is partially contradictory, and almost mocks this. The word ‘quite’ almost certainly implies that it is a characteristic that she should look to develop, a point wich Alexander Webster picks up in source 11, referencing Fawcett as doign speeches that are ‘inauidble and devoid’. This reflects an almost pointlessness of the speeches that Fawcett makes, and therefore, if she can’t express herself openly enough in public, she is certainly at least ‘quite

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