Firmness was shown and the leadership of a king was brought out of the queen and that earned loads of respect from her people and they figured out that this woman was not one to be taken lightly. She convinced her people that even though she had “the body of a weak and feeble woman,” she still had “the heart and stomach of a king.” Elizabeth showed assertiveness and aggression to any colony that would “dare to invade the borders” of her “realm.” This gave her troops the confidence that they needed and in the outcome
This connects with power, because she is establishing the fact that she knows better than others about what humans were meant to do, and what they were not. She then goes on to say "In marriage I'll use my equipment as freely as my maker sent it." (Chaucer, 188) Here she is again establishing the power that she is inferring was given to her by God. When the Wife goes into talking about her husband being her "debtor and my slave" she is definitely showing how powerful she was with her husband. (Chaucer, 188) She then goes as far to say that "I have the power over his own body and not he" which confirms that she controlled her husband.
Elizabeth creates a lot of reasons that can lead her to be killed by many from other countries, but as a hero she realizes that and goes ahead with them anyways. Finally she does her best in bringing religious peace among the English. Elizabeth knows that certain religions are ignored while others are given more than enough, which is why she allows different religions to worship in the same church. Elizabeth makes up goals she wants to achieve for her people. By going through difficulties and putting the peace and wealth of the English people over her own, Queen Elizabeth is a true
This is evidence that the women in this part of the world are oppressed and abused. What kind of civil people would legalize rape and deny women basic rights that men have. Religion and culture is not excuse to treat people inhumanly. The women of this culture have suffered horribly because of this law. Source G talks about the daily struggle of a woman living under the Taliban regime.
The debate of whether Mary, Queen of Scots was responsible for her own downfall and to what extent or on the contrary this was caused by the attacks and plotting of others towards her person has been argued for centuries. While some historians like Antonia Fraser or John Guy, to name some, maintain that she was a good monarch and did not have much choice but to act according to the situation in which she was the way she did it, others, like Jenny Wormald or Michael Lynch for example, claim that she was an incompetent ruler who failed to restore Catholicism and maintain stability in Scotland.¹ There are various arguments in favour of her as a ruler. Firstly, nobility was divided in Scotland, which created a climate of conflict and instability. This was one of the main causes of trouble during her reign.² Those who define Mary as a good monarch claim that although Scottish noble families were divided and in conflict with each other when the queen arrived, she did manage to solve the situation, at least temporarily, as claimed by Donaldson³ and Lynch.⁴ Then, there was the issue of a female ruler: people like John Knox fiercely opposed the idea of a queen leading the fate of the Scottish or any other nations. And although many nobles did not share Knox’s radical views they saw the rule of a woman as contra nature.
The evil that I felt was portrayed in Charlotte Temple is not the independence Charlotte wants, but the realization that she can’t get her independence happily without the financial and emotional assistance that others can give her. She even admits her confinement to being reliant on others after the letter from her parents. She says, “I will not wound the hearts of those dear parents who make my happiness the whole study of their lives…"(Rowson 46). This evil element of trying to discover her own independence taunts Charlotte throughout the text. Charlotte Temple, by Susannah Rowson was popular in the 19th Century simply because it was just that; simple.
She is remembered as a strong-willed leader of England, with only her people and patriotism in mind. Queen Elizabeth led her country in 1588 against the Spanish Armada, a fight considered unbeatable, and was victorious. When Queen Elizabeth I was in search of a husband, every suitor betrayed her or did not fit into the image of herself that she harbored, and she simply chose not to take a husband. She ruled as a lone entity, making monumental decisions, and choices in delicate situations by her own reckoning. The love of her people was her motivation.
Also, Mary struggled to re-establish the Catholic faith as she was unable to restore monasteries and chantries and unable to restore land due to rested interests. When Mary came to power, she was determined to crush the Protestant faith. It was part of her policy to reverse the religious changes made by Henry VIII and Edward VI, she wanted to restore Papal Supremacy and she supported a reconciliation with Rome. It could be viewed that this was a public display of force to impress the Pope and exiles such as Reginald Pole. Mary’s chief advisor, Gardiner, supported this policy.
Marlene calls Thatcher; ‘Maggie’ – colloquial use of her name suggesting closeness, perhaps a metaphor for the incorporation of the prime minister’s ideology into society and presenting its strong impact on ordinary life, especially Marlene’s. Churchill however shows how this allusion to a return of the ‘stupendous eighties’ is unrealistic, Thatcher’s contemporary ideology doesn’t work for women or those of lower class unless they lose their identity but perhaps contrasting that it’s exactly this strong ideology that has enabled Marlene to succeed in a world of ‘monetarism.’ For example, Nijo doesn’t actually beat her husband but for the purpose of the play, to highlight the feminist theme, Churchill exaggerates - her thoughts and desires are so strong that they seem real. Nijo defies male dominance like Marlene breaks stereotypical male dominance by reaching ‘top’ through gaining the promotion over other male contenders. The embodiment of Marlene in the character of Nijo emphasises the loss of parts of Marlene’s identity. It’s ironic that Marlene sympathises with characters of Act1 and doesn’t realise the catharsis of her unconscious manifesting itself in this surreal scene.
Using a female character makes it more powerful to challenge the authorities and the norms. The wife likens to the priests who use the literature badly and wrongly to vindicate their acts. The wife’s misusing of literature shows that she is unschooled. The wife shows us herself to be in opposition with the patriarchal society she lives in. When she talks against society’s norms, she talks in a dialogical