Mary Queen of Scots and Anne of the Thousand Days tells the story of two truly powerful women of their time fully based on their marital status. In Anne of the Thousand Days, Anne is quoted as saying "Power is as exciting as love" and for these women power is their most desired asset because they pay for it with their lives. Mary Queen of Scots is based in the year 1567 while she awaits her execution by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England. While helping the viewer better sympathize with both Mary and Anne, throughout both films detailed flashbacks tell the story of why both women are soon to be executed by their people. During the course of Mary Queen of Scots flashback we learn that Mary is the only surviving legitimate child of King James V of Scotland. She was only six days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne. As a child, she spent most …show more content…
The majority of this film is set as a flashback to help the viewer recount the story of Henry VIII and the controversy surrounding the affair. Anne is a young and very beautiful women would at the beginning of the film who is engaged to another man. Henry VIII is determined to break the engagement in order to have Anne all to himself. Anne then blames Henry VIII for ruining her happiness and her heart turns black and lustful for the power she can claim from the King. While Anne is unable to bare a male child, her importance to Henry VIII is lost and tries to rid himself of Anne by using his power as King. He uses the Ministries to his advantage by consequently framing Anne for the crime of adultery. As Anne patiently awaits her trail in prison, she is given an ultimatum and is forced to decide between the fate of herself or her young daughter Elizabeth. As all honorable mothers would do, she chooses to sacrifice herself for Elizabeth by being
In the play, Anne has a special bond with her father and at one point she tells him he’s the only one she loves. She does not however have a good relationship with her mother and often makes her upset. In Night, Elie loses his mother
Mary was born in Scotland at Linlithgow Palace on December 8, 1542. Her father was the king of Scotland, and her mother was from a very well known French family known as the Guise. During the time that Mary was born her father was engaged in a war away from Scotland with the king of England, who had invaded Scotland at the time. In the fights, Mary’s father was defeated, and he felt that the nobles and generals who led his army, allowed the English to win in order to betray him. The thought of this betrayal was too much for Mary’s father, and as a result his frustration and suffering started to overwhelm him. Under the severity of his suffering he slowly started to decline, and finally, right after the news of Mary’s birth reached him, he passed away. Mary never got the chance to meet her father, and her father never got the chance to meet her, and since her father only produced one child before his death, Mary automatically became queen of Scotland at just six days old. Seeing as she was too
In this play Anne had made a relationship when she was trapped in a attic for two years. In this movie they need to see how Anne and Peter first met and reacted to one another. Then to the end how the felt about each other. Although the play and the movie have different actions. Both works contain the same major conflicts.
In the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne is a dynamic character who is disrespectful and immature in the beginning of the play. When Anna had a nightmare in the beginning of the play, her mother came into her room to comfort her. Her mother offered Anne water and to stay with her until she fell asleep, but Anne said it wasn’t necessary to stay. When Mrs. Frank stated, “But I’d like to start with you . . . Very much. Really.” Anne replied, “I’d rather you didn’t” (398). This scene demonstrates Anne is both immature and rude because she rejects her mother’s help. Her mother is likely very hurt by this rejection, especially since, as her mother leaves the room, Anne asks for her father instead. In the end of the play, Anne shows she is a dynamic character by displaying the character traits brave and thoughtful. While Peter and Anne
In the popular book and story of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl there are many themes present throughout her journal. It’s a touching piece of literature that puts things into perspective about family, warfare, loneliness, and selfishness. Her diary gives insight about people who are actually living in those circumstances from Anne’s point of view, resulting in a more factual story than fictional novels loosely based on true events. Anne goes through a lot during her time in the Annex, including tense arguments with her family, bombings, thieves, Peter, and Dussel moving in. The events may not seem like that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but to a young girl, it’s a huge change of events. It shows a lot from her in the way she acts, Anne’s selfishness proving that stress and war can change people to be more selfish.
“She was a king’s daughter, she was a king’s sister, she was a king’s wife, she was a queen, and by the same title a king also” # Mary Tudor was an influential women of her time period. Many in modern society know her for her particularly bad reputation as Bloody Mary, however they do not realize the contributions she made, or her influence on history . The story behind Mary’s reputation gives insight as to her true accomplishments as England’s first queen.
And yet, counties weren’t always the ones who had faced much fallout in the Middle Ages. Families of all types suffered their own kind of fallout, even royalty. And one of the main pawns whom suffered in the ordeal would be Mary Stuart, also known as the Queen of Scots. What makes her unique is the fact that she became Queen of Scots when she was just 6 days old due to her father’s death in 1542. And if that wasn’t bad enough, marriage became a big problem with her, as she was told to marry off Prince Edward of England, but eventually she did not. Instead, she went off to France and stay there at the age of 5. And by the time she returned, she was a complete outsider due to her faith and Scotland’s faith, but she eventually got everything got
And how exactly do they show Anne’s mistakes throughout the play? I think the playwrights chose to do this so they could make a more interesting play and keep the play historically accurate. To start off with, Anne Frank is a young girl. Would a story of a perfect 13 years old be realistic at all? No one would be able to relate to that, and the play would not be as interesting as it would be if it were relatable.
Anne was a young, talented, bright, beautiful and engaged. She was engaged to James Butler. Cardinal Wolsey broke up their marriage. After her marriage was broken up Anne ended up as lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon, King Henry the Vlll’s first wife. Anne was secretly engaged to Henry Percy. Anne and Percy were very much in love , but sadly Cardinal Wolsey ruined this marriage as well. Not long after Henry started to flirt with Anne, but Anne refused to become his mistress as her sister was. No one really knows whether Anne and Henry Love each other everyone has a different opinion. Never the less they ended up getting married. Six months after their wedding, Anne gave birth to a beautiful baby girl that they named Elizabeth. Henry was
In the stories of “Mary Queen of Scots” and “Elizabeth I”, it is known that Mary and Elizabeth I are two different people, but also the similar in some ways. Both Elizabeth and Mary lived within the same time period and were even related, although their lives ended up completely different. Elizabeth was a well-respected queen with an interesting personal life. Mary on the other hand was convicted of aiding a homicide and had many problems in her personal life. Therefore, Elizabeth and Mary both had some similarities and differences between their early lives and their personal lives.
In July 1559, Mary and Francis assumed the royal titles of King and Queen of France since Henry II had died. Her happiness was short, after she learned the death of her mother in June 1560. Six months later, her husband King Francis II was also dead. Mary was devastated and extremely depressed. In spite of these personal tragedies, Mary chose to return to Scotland although it was a different country from the one she had left 13 years ago. In Mary’s absence the Protestant party had gained power in Scotland by abolishing the authority of the pope and forbidding the celebration of the Mass.
The first part of the diary starts with her being a regular girl having fun and turns into a girl going into hiding with seven other people. In addition, she has to deal with relation problems with her mom, sister, and the people she is in hiding with. The problems begin when eight people are confined in a small area and everybody begins to irritate and annoy one another. Anne was especially concerned with herself and with her attitude towards the others in the group. She's mainly concerned with her mother who always treats her like baby. Mr. Frank tires to ease the quarrels between them by telling Anne to help out more around the house, but Anne stubbornly declines preferring to concentrate more on her studies. She especially gets plenty of confrontations with Mrs. Van Daan who thinks she is a spoiled little girl. Mrs. Van Daan constantly tells Anne’s father, “ If Anne were my daughter.” Anne’s respond to this in her diary was, “Thank heavens I’m not!” Of course
What these two stories have in common is that both women are seen as tricksters especially Tamar, who according to bellis has to use deception to get to her ends (Bellis 78) she needed to have a kid in order to have a place in society. While you can argue that Rebecca is a trickster, Tamar is not and the reason why is because tamar never actually claimed to be a prostitute Judah was the one who had mistaken her for a prostitute Tamar just never corrected him. When comparing Rebecca and Tamar to Mary the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene there aren’t many similarities except for Mary M. being unfairly labeled as a whore. In Mary Magdalene’s story it is said that Jesus cast the seven demons out of her, the seven demons are referring to the
Did you happen to know the Queen Mary I and Macbeth have heaps of traits in common? In the play, Macbeth becomes king of Scotland in 1040 after killing the king but he kills him in his sleep and blames the guards for his actions. Shakespeare is the person who wrote Macbeth; he has plenty of plays, but this is one of his best. Mary I becomes Queen Mary I and kills hundreds of people. Although one is real and one is fictional, Macbeth and Queen Mary both have terrible traits which make them a tragic hero.
At first, Anne was terrified to go into hiding but her positivity and hope showed and taught many people lessons on how you should look at life. Anne had such a big influence on the people who read her diary. The play that was constructed off of her diary writings really lets us understand how and what Anne was feeling along with the others in the house. The Franks in addition to their friends, had people who helped them out while they were in hiding. This is one reason why Anne would have thought that people were really good at heart. One prime example is Miep Gies. She helped the Franks even though she was not faithful in the Jewish religion. Meip replenished everyone in the group by bringing them what they needed. She had a well thought out tactic that helped her be able to bring supplies to the secret annex. She never gave up on them and helped them through their entire hiding. This shows that people may not believe in the same things as you, but deep in their heart, they are willing to help anyone in need. The group of people hiding in the secret annex was in need, they had no way of getting food or any other supplies. This is where Miep came in to help them. She brought them the food, plus all of the supplies that they needed, therefore, making them live much longer than they should have. In the play, you could tell how happy the family was to see her. On page 326, we read, “Thank you, Miepia. You shouldn’t have done it.” this was