Alice Paul

It amazed me as I watched the movie how quickly things turned violent, suddenly these women that had been protesting the whole time and had not changed anything they had done were suddenly absolutely villainess. They began to be physically attacked, harassed and degraded on a level that they had never been before. It was like watching the boulder roll downhill and once it had started nothing could stop it. It just kept gathering more and more debris and causing more destruction as it progressed. Eventually Alice Paul herself was arrested after insisting that she would participate in the protests. This was one of the hardest parts of the movie for me to watch, not because of the fact that she was placed in isolation for protesting in jail. …show more content…
It was particularly hard to watch these scenes, seeing her held down the tube shoved up her nose. Knowing that not only had she done nothing wrong to begin with, but she was being tortured knowingly by our own government simply for wanting the freedoms that men had. I am a bit of a fan of history and so when the doctor refused to say she needed to be permanently hospitalized, I know how important that was. I say this because there was a time not to long before this that it was not uncommon to lock women up as insane for saying things that sanity considered obscene. In fact, the term hysteria comes from the fact there was a time when it was thought insanity could be cured by performing a hisdoractimy on a woman. This I think is why the doctor said, “Courage is often mistaken for insanity in