Beatrix Potter Research Paper

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Miss Potter is irrefutably an archetypal biographical movie following the life and the career of a renowned children book writer/illustrator in the early 19th century – Beatrix Potter. Of all of her traits exploited in the movie, it is Beatrix’s radical stance against the prejudice and several other taboos concerning the role of women that I find the most inspiring.
In a society where gender discrimination was prevalent, women, in general, had little chance of making a mark on hardly any domains, especially those dominated by their male counterparts. Yet Beatrix stood out as one of the very few female writers who successfully gained her nationwide recognition as the creator of beloved characters in children literature such as Benjamin Bunny and Peter Rabbit. Despite being endowed with tremendous potential, she initially encountered plenty of hurdles that impeded the publication of her first brainchild. In the beginning scene, I was rather irritated by the disdainful look cast by the …show more content…

Being a single woman at the age of 30, she expected her mother to rant and rave about her procastination. Unlike Millie Warne, Beatrix wasn’t obsessed with the idea of staying a spinster though she could see the point of it. I felt that to Beatrix, it was more of a choice than a condition because later on, she found herself falling in love with Norman Warne – her book editor. It is comprehensible that Beatrix’s parents disapproved of her intention to marry Norman because the two families weren’t on the same rank of social class. To my amazement, she made a firm declaration in a dispute with her mother, demonstrating her determination: “ Norman Warne is a gentleman of comfortable means and not one bit beneath us and I intend to marry him.” Hardly anyone can believe that it was the view held by a woman whose life had been strictly controlled by her parents and moulded by social

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