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Flashcards by Sophie Brokenshire, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sophie Brokenshire
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Who directed Suffragette? | Sarah Gavron |
| What is the name of the actress that plays Maud Watts? | Carey Mulligan |
| What was the slogan for the suffragette movement? | "Deeds not words." |
| Who wrote Suffragette? | Abi Morgan |
| What did Maud say to David Lloyd George? | "I never knew that there is another way of living this life." |
| What 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." |
| What is symbolic about the wheels turning in the beginning of the film? | - Symbolic of change - Patriarchal machine is at work |
| What is the name of the laundry that Maud works at? | Glasshouse Laundry, East end of London |
| What 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." |
| What 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 |
| What did Violet Miller say regarding the law? | "You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable?" |
| How did Edith respond when she was asked if she was a suffragette? | "Yes, but I consider myself more of a solider." |
| What was the name of the suffragette that become a martyr? | Emily Wilding Davison |
| What is the name of Maud's manager? | Mr. Taylor |
| What did the film reveal about the divide in the suffragette movement? | There are the liberal patricians, and the actual foot soliders. |
| What were three injustices working class suffragettes had to face? | 1. Imprisonment 2. Unemployment 3. Poverty |
| What 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. |
| What is significant about the ending of the film? | - Wheels turning; progress is continuing, a reminder to beginning - Story isn't over; struggle continues |
| How are women perceived in the workplace? (The Telegraph) | "Sexually available livestock." |
| What is the meaning behind the motif of billowing sheets? | Dark storm clouds gathering: change in social climate. |
| Where does Maud find a large pathos? | Reconciling her motherly instincts with her political agenda and convictions. |
| What 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". |
| What three elements of Steed's investigation against the suffragettes resonate in society today? | 1. Surveillance 2. Covert photography 3. Media links |
| What 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." |
| What did Emmeline Pankhurst say regarding the dangers of rebellion? | "I would rather be a rebel than a slave." |
| What 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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