Marie Antoinette's Influence On Women

A review of the world’s great artists conjures familiar images: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel; Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night; Pablo Picasso’s The Tragedy. There are many more, of course: Monet, Moya, Warhol, Rembrandt, Kandinsky. What is immediately noticeable, however, upon any brief study of art, is the significant absence of women as heralded artists—not only in our ancient pasts, but even today, amongst valiant efforts for gender equality.

Joan of Arc had a very significant influence on society in the middle ages. It was not only for being a heroine and saint she was recognised for but she was also recognised as a leader and founder of the feminists. Joan became a role model to many women as she symbolised individual and independent thinking. Joan helped show that women could fight and had the same strength as men. A little while after Joan’s death, women stepped out of their traditional jobs/roles and adopted the characteristics of men. Women were allowed to fight in wars, play in male sports, be educated male schools and universities, be employed as equals alongside men in the workforce, and become more than just the usual housewife. This was all because of Joan’s example.

It can be easily said that the intended audience for this letter was to Marie Antoinette’s mother, Maria Theresa the empress of Austria. Marie states several times throughout the letter of her many thanks to her mother for the reciprocating letters. The excitement in Marie’s tone is evident that she is astonished, despite the chaotic excitement upon their arrival, the amount of order there is. Marie is overjoyed that despite the hardships that the peasants faced, such as taxes, they remain loyal to her and her husband Louis, and show their affection with cheering and excitement. In response to the love that they received, Marie makes a point to tell her mother that the dauphin and herself wished the citizens not to be harmed despite the fact that they were unable to move for hours from the sheer masses of people who gathered upon their arrival.

Many people may argue that Marie Antoinette was the biggest factor for why France fell into a revolutionary state, however, Marie Antoinette was a queen victimized and forced to play role from a young age to satisfy the French people who disapproved. Marie Antoinette was falsely blamed for her actions when in fact it wasn’t her fault. Marie Antoinette was forced to accept a society where she had to learn new customs and traditions. She had to leave everything behind, consequently become something she isn’t. Her frustration and unhappiness with Versailles was no surprise. Marie Antoinette was frustrated by her marriage. At Versailles her husband-to-be, Louis Auguste had no interest in her. In the film, Marie Antoinette, the director clearly

“Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.” Letters of an American Farmer, Michel- Guillaume Jean de Crévecoeur.

Marie de France lived in a time when social graces were paramount to a good reputation, lordships and to securing good marriages. A woman was considered less valuable if she lost her virginity; a wife was subjected to her feudal lord, father, brother or son after her husband’s death. According to Angela Sandison’s article “The Role of Women in the Middle Ages”, this was because in the Middle Ages the Church and the aristocracy controlled public opinion and the legal system. These authorities of the times believed a woman’s place was in a submissive role to a man. In The Lay of the Nightingale, we will see how this social and religious hierarchy will impact the behaviors of the three people involved.

Previously, women were never looked at as equal to men because of past social traditions. Men were considered superior to women. Women had to follow their husband’s footsteps, and not publicly share their opinions. In the 16th Century through 18th century, women were limited in their involvement politically and socially in public because they were looked as only being mothers and wives, however, during this time new gains in education and politics because of Enlightenment ideals allowed women to more actively participate publicly, but ultimately had a small effect on all women as most of them still stayed at home and kept viewpoints out of the public eye.

Mothers’ love and care The two images, “Marie Antoinette and her Children” by Vigee-Lebrun and “Destitute Pea Pickers in California” by Dorothea Lange, show the obvious differences in the appearances of characters, color, and background. In fact, the similarity of the two images makes it easy for the viewers to see the differences and to compare and contrast. While the images are both show the living conditions of the family of four, Marie Antoinette's image shows a great wealthy life with the joys expressed in the mother’s face while the Migrant mother's image shows a destitute life of a migrant family with a mother’s worry face. Lebrun’s painting shares the mother’s happiness when her family is having a prosperous life while Lange’s photo reveals the anxieties of a mother when her children are having a hard life.

The art movement was on the rise during the advent of the seventeenth century, as it was a time when the baroque movement, which was distinguished by exaggerated dynamism and clear detail, flourished. Art during this period aimed to embody clear detail to represent the drama and grandeur. Rulers such as Marie de Medici sought to captivate on this new art movement by using it as a way to promote the power they had and the legitimacy of their reign. Marie commissioned the renowned Peter Paul Rubens to paint a series of twenty-four paintings in order to vindicate her triumph as the queen of France. Rubens did just that, as he re-envisioned the entire style propaganda through art during the period, using the paintings as a way to allegorize

In the late Renaissance the training of artists began to move from the workshops and to the Academy and women began a long struggle to be able to access this training. To study the human form required working from male nudes and corpses, and women were generally thought to be too sensitive and were barred from this type of training.

"Marie Antoinette was the Austrian born child bride of the future King Louis XVI of France. It was an arranged marriage designed to

Two artists of the romantic period are Anne Seymour Damer and Adelaide Labelle-Guiard. They were both artist although they practiced different forms of art. Damer was a sculptor who worked primarily on busts made of marble while Labille-Guiard was a French minimalist and portrait painter. She used pastels and oils to produce her paintings. Training for artists in the romantic period was practically unheard of due to the fact that women were not highly educated but were told to behave, think and dress. They were mainly evaluated by their display of body and behavior instead of their minds. Prior knowledge of women in history claimed that a woman was somehow less than a man in every way excluding in their ability to bare children. The revolution

How would you feel if people judged your destiny in life, based on your looks? I mean sure we get peer-pressured and people will have preconceived ideas about us, but I don’t think it goes to that extent. Marie Antoinette was surrounded by this kind of judgement throughout her childhood. She was watched from the minute she got up in the morning to the minute she got in bed to go to sleep. Her life was full of people watching her daily and commenting on her flaws. Let me remind you these people watching her are strangers, how would you feel if you were in her shoes? A quote from the book ‘Marie Antoinette’ says “she was flat chested”, not very attractive, and had nothing going for her besides her personality. To be told that the only thing you’re

From a feminist perspective, write an essay about the role of Lady Madeline in the story.

Marie Antoinette is a daughter of Austria’s empress, Maria Theresa. The empress marries Marie off to the oldest son of the King of France, Louis XVI. She's sent in a carriage to France and brings along her pet pug. But, once Marie gets to France she is stripped of her belongings to include her dog and sent to go meet her husband to be, Louis XVI. When meeting each other for the first time Louis is very shy towards Marie and avoids discussions with her. After meeting her husband to be, Marie is sent to her new home to be changed for her wedding and a few minutes later is at her ceremony getting married. At the ceremony the King wishes the wedded couple many healthy and well kids that can later take the throne. But after the wedding the new couple is still very uncomfortable with each other leading to nothing happening when in bed. This was very unusual and had to be reported to the King, which lead to everyone in the palace finding out about this unusual news. The feeling of uncomfortability lasts for a very very long time for Louis who doesn’t want anything to do with Marie in bed even when she tries to make moves on him. This leads many people in the palace to think bad thoughts about the princess even though many of her servants didn’t like her anyway, as she was seen as a foreigner to them. Her mother also finds out about the couple not having a baby yet and it makes her very upset. One person in particular has very strong feelings for Marie, Madame du Barry, the King’s