For this essay the two films that have been chosen are Pride and Suffragette. Both films are quite recent being released in 2014 and 2015 respectively. For each of the films this essay will go through the accuracy of the films and how they portrayed the historic events. This essay will argue that although there are some inaccuracies with both films, that they both portray a suitable amount of accuracy for these film types. Pride follows the miners strikes and how the gay activists helped, while Suffragette follows the early period of the feminist movement. First this essay will go through Pride and the historic event, then Suffragette and its historic event.
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If a woman was to stray from this gendered stereotype by any means they would be seen as neglecting their role as a woman. “women’s suffrage, which had previously only been taken up by only small and politically isolated advanced groups of women” (Doubois, 1994, p. 256)had now become more popular. Womeng did not have the same rights as men. One of the main suffragists that this film follows is Emmaline Pankhurst. She was the leader of the suffragist movement in Britain. This was also kept to be accurate in the film following the women who followed Emmaline Pankhurst and her directions. One of the main aims of the suffragist movement was to help get women to have the same voting rights as men. “as the twentieth century dawned, more and more women left the “proper sphere.” They worked, contributed, marched” (Pyecroft, 1994, p. 699). By protesting and voicing their opinion it often led to women being imprisoned. Some of the suffragettes decide to continue their protests by staging hunger strikes. In the movie there is a scene which includes the force feeding of one of the suffragettes, which almost follows this account of how the prison staff went about the forcible feeding of the women who were huger striking. “Overpowered by five wardresses and tied to a chair, she was subjected to the feeding” (Gullickson, 2008, p. 469). For the women this forceful feeding would have been terrifying to be fed against their will however, to them it was still better than the treatment that they were already getting just based on their sex. “Hundreds of women were beaten up by young men and the police, were seriously injured by stewards at political meetings, and endured hunger strikes and forcible feeding in prison” (Gullickson, 2008, p. 470). Women endured a lot of negative treatment, yet the media was not covering the
Both Pride and Suffragette aim to educate people in the injustices of the past against …show more content…
If a woman was to stray from this gendered stereotype by any means they would be seen as neglecting their role as a woman. “women’s suffrage, which had previously only been taken up by only small and politically isolated advanced groups of women” (Doubois, 1994, p. 256)had now become more popular. Womeng did not have the same rights as men. One of the main suffragists that this film follows is Emmaline Pankhurst. She was the leader of the suffragist movement in Britain. This was also kept to be accurate in the film following the women who followed Emmaline Pankhurst and her directions. One of the main aims of the suffragist movement was to help get women to have the same voting rights as men. “as the twentieth century dawned, more and more women left the “proper sphere.” They worked, contributed, marched” (Pyecroft, 1994, p. 699). By protesting and voicing their opinion it often led to women being imprisoned. Some of the suffragettes decide to continue their protests by staging hunger strikes. In the movie there is a scene which includes the force feeding of one of the suffragettes, which almost follows this account of how the prison staff went about the forcible feeding of the women who were huger striking. “Overpowered by five wardresses and tied to a chair, she was subjected to the feeding” (Gullickson, 2008, p. 469). For the women this forceful feeding would have been terrifying to be fed against their will however, to them it was still better than the treatment that they were already getting just based on their sex. “Hundreds of women were beaten up by young men and the police, were seriously injured by stewards at political meetings, and endured hunger strikes and forcible feeding in prison” (Gullickson, 2008, p. 470). Women endured a lot of negative treatment, yet the media was not covering the