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- 1Who directed Suffragette?Sarah Gavron
- 2What is the name of the actress that plays Maud Watts?Carey Mulligan
- 3What was the slogan for the suffragette movement?"Deeds not words."
- 4Who wrote Suffragette?Abi Morgan
- 5What did Maud say to David Lloyd George?"I never knew that there is another way of living this life."
- 6What did Pankhurst call the audience to do at the rally?"I incite the women of England to rebellion... never surrender. Never give up the fight."
- 7What is symbolic about the wheels turning in the beginning of the film?- Symbolic of change
- Patriarchal machine is at work - 8What is the name of the laundry that Maud works at?Glasshouse Laundry, East end of London
- 9What was one of the lines from the voiceovers of the Parliamentarians?"Women do not have the calmness of temperament nor the balance of mind to exercise judgement in political affairs."
- 10What was the impact of Grau's use of a hand held camera?"De-prettify" the action
Give allusion that we are watching from a contemporary news footage team
Give a sense of immediacy and urgency
Reminds that the struggle is ongoing - 11What did Violet Miller say regarding the law?"You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable?"
- 12How did Edith respond when she was asked if she was a suffragette?"Yes, but I consider myself more of a solider."
- 13What was the name of the suffragette that become a martyr?Emily Wilding Davison
- 14What is the name of Maud's manager?Mr. Taylor
- 15What did the film reveal about the divide in the suffragette movement?There are the liberal patricians, and the actual foot soliders.
- 16What were three injustices working class suffragettes had to face?1. Imprisonment
2. Unemployment
3. Poverty - 17What is frustrating about the patriarchal system that Suffragette reveals?A legal system that refuses to grant women basic rights and allows them no power to change that system.
- 18What is significant about the ending of the film?- Wheels turning; progress is continuing, a reminder to beginning
- Story isn't over; struggle continues - 19How are women perceived in the workplace? (The Telegraph)"Sexually available livestock."
- 20What is the meaning behind the motif of billowing sheets?Dark storm clouds gathering: change in social climate.
- 21Where does Maud find a large pathos?Reconciling her motherly instincts with her political agenda and convictions.
- 22What did Inspector Steed say to Maud regarding her vulnerability as a suffragette?"I've grown up with girls like you" rejecting life for "revenge and a cause".
- 23What three elements of Steed's investigation against the suffragettes resonate in society today?1. Surveillance
2. Covert photography
3. Media links - 24What did Maud justify the violence of the Suffragette movement as?"We break windows, we burn things because war's the only language men will listen to."
- 25What did Emmeline Pankhurst say regarding the dangers of rebellion?"I would rather be a rebel than a slave."
- 26What did Inspector Steed say regarding the power of the husband over the wife?"Don't bother arresting them. Let their husbands deal with them."
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- Revision cards for essay on the film Suffragette for Level Two English
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- Sophie Brokenshire
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