The Other Boleyn Girl

For my research paper, I plan to write about the Boleyn/Howard family. I will be focusing mainly on Henry VIII wives Anne Boleyn and her cousin Catherine Howard. The time frame I look to examine is from the rise of Anne Boleyn and her family to the fall of Catherine Howard and the aftermath of their executions and how it affected the family left behind. I think that both the Boleyn's and Howard's were very influential towards the middle and end of Henry’s reign. Most prominent is Anne Boleyn who has been polarized throughout history as either an innocently executed wife or a malicious and ambitious she-wolf who brought down Catholicism in England. Whichever way you look at it Anne is one of his most remembered and influential wives. For whatever

On Friday, May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, former Queen of England, was executed for high treason and adultery, her head severed from her body by an expert swordsman, the only concession given her by her ex-husband King Henry VIII. How, in so short a time, had the woman that Henry had defied the religious tradition of England for, divorcing his wife and changing the history of religion in his country, whom he pursued relentlessly for years, fallen so far, so quickly? To understand one must examine Henry’s desperate need for a male heir, understand the politics of the time, and the personality of Anne Boleyn herself. Anne’s involvement with religion, politics, foreign affairs and fashion are still being seen centuries after her death. Filled

The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tells the story of a young girl who is hiding away with her family from the Nazis during World War II. In this play, Anne struggles with the changes of life and finding who she wants to be while trapped in the annex with multiple other people. While the play of Anne’s diary is still read and viewed today, there is a newer version of her diary; a movie. The movie has slightly changed the events of the play to share Anne’s story with a modern audience. In the movie, the audience see Anne change from a regular life in Amsterdam to a completely new life in the secret annex. Although the play and the movie versions of Anne Frank’s life differ in their organizational structure, both works contain the same

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.

the play. The “Anne Frank” play was very similar to the “Anne Frank” movie, but they also had some

During the Tudor Dynasty it is easily thought that the years between 1547 and 1558 were ones of crisis. With the succession of a child and the first woman within England, people have assumed that the years between Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were an unproductive interlude. The mid Tudor period is seen as negative years within the Tudor Dynasty. It is regarded that Henry VIII and Elizabeth I’s reputations were a factor in why historians such as A.F Pollard and S T Bindoff supported the ‘Mid Tudor Crisis’ . The ‘two little Tudors’, referring to Edward and Mary, seemed colourless in comparison to their surrounding

Number 1: Throughout the play Anne has different feelings towards each of her family members. As Anne becomes older in the play some of her feelings also start to change. Towards the beginning of the play Anne feels jealous of her sister Margot and often wishes she could change and be like her. Anne feels that her Mother likes and values Margot more than her. This of course makes Anne jealous and makes Anne more jealous of Margot.

Lady Audley’s Secret, set in the Victorian Era, a time where women were stay-at-home mothers who took care of their children and doted on their husbands, Lucy Graham, also known as Helen Talboy’s, uses her beauty to full potential. This is a young woman from a low-income household who is has changed by marriage; she captivates men by her physical beauty and acquires wealth in return. The novel uses a contrast among different types of women during this era. The Victorian era was notorious for change in women. It is through Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s book, a historic shift from a man-run society to a more optimistic society for women, Lady Audley and the other female protagonists show that women are capable of being as intelligent as men and able

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

Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives, is a new look at a woman that has been studied for decades. This book is a positive, and different, look on Mary Tudors reign as queen of England. This novel is composed of essays by ten different historians who analyze different aspects of Mary’s reign and provide new perspectives on it. The book is split into two sections, old and new perspectives. The first section, old perspectives, is a broader look of Mary’s reign and reputation after her death. The second section, new perspectives, looks closer at the details of her life. Susan Doran and Thomas Freeman argue in the beginning of the book that if Mary Tudor had lived ten years longer, her reign would have been looked at successfully, and England, Scotland, and most of Europe would be Catholic. They continue on to say that if she would have lived longer, Mary Queen of Scots would have ascended to the throne after her. This would have kept England catholic and there would have not been aid to any protestant rebellions in Europe that came about during Elizabeth’s reign. Though this seems to be the argument in the introduction and the essays of Doran and Freeman, there lacks evidence of this in other essays. This argument, although it is based on fiction, sets the tone of the rest of the novel that Mary’s reign was not as bad as it is portrayed. Overall the novel is successful in conveying its message, but I did not enjoy the book. It is hard for me to read people’s opinions of what

Another work that has centered around Anne Boleyn is the documentary by Suzannah Lipscomb called Henry and Anne: The lovers Who Changed History. The goal of this film is to try to reveal the truth about Henry and Anne’s love story while also providing a different idea of how the two were

In Lady Audley’s Secret, the main character in the story, Lady Audley, oftenly asserts and maintains her power of social status by manipulating her femininity and sexuality for personal gain. In typical traditional Victorian times, times like the seventeenth and eighteenth century, most women accepted their house duties and serving their husbands. Unlike the typical women at the time Lady Audley doesn’t accept the traditional role she is supposed to fulfill and instead, takes over in the social scene. Even though she is looked at as weak and just a typical women at the time for male pleasure, she uses that as a cover by hiding her true inner self instead of the “false aura she lets off for the world”. Being a women at the time (men wouldn't

Henry VIII was the King that would change England’s religious system and make it his legacy. The religious system would carry on after his reign and become the predominant religion of England. The question is: How did events connected to key historical figures during Henry VIII’s reign cause for a permanent shift in the religious system of England? This question will be answered by analyzing events related to key historical figures during Henry VIII’s reign. These events will not be a biographical representation of any one historical figure, but relayed in connection to the topic of this paper in order to provide an answer for the essay question. This method is being utilized because it provides an analytical perspective, while also providing a personal appeal by tying the facts in with historical figures. History is not just facts, it is a story, and like any good story it should pull a reader in and make them interested. The historical figures utilized will be Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, and Thomas Cranmer due to their direct correlation to the change in the religious system of England. The sources utilized were chosen and implemented in relation to how they encompassed concepts related to historical

General Tilney changes his attitude once he learns that Catherine was not rich. The General treats Catherine differently after he learns that she does not possess a grand fortune. Catherine expresses her surprise at the change: “And now-what had she done, or omitted to do, to merit such change?” (Northanger Abbey 217). Her anxiety that she must have done something wrong or have forgotten to do something may have been caused by her economically inferior status.

There have been various indications throughout the early life of Queen Elizabeth I about a secret which she kept guarded. Some historians from this time period have referred to the theory that the virgin queen was actually the virgin king. This was first put into print by none other than Bram Stoker who also worked with the actor Henry Irving, but there’s no doubt that some of Elizabeth’s friends held similar ideas.