Braveheart

Braveheart Even though the events in this movie occurred a very long time ago, the actions that the Scottish people made then, made the country of Scotland the way it is today. As a nation-state, the Scottish people were struggling to gain their rights, and unify their country as a whole. It wasn’t until William Wallace came around and reminded/showed the Scottish people that they could fight back to gain their rights back. Wallace opened up the eyes of many Scottish people, and showed them that they should fight for their freedom and nationalism as a nation-state and regain their collective identity. In most countries, the events that occurred in the history of the country that made the nation-state the way it is today. In the movie Braveheart, it displayed that together as a nation-state, Scotland wouldn’t put up for the English’s ways and together, Scotland became united as one, because William Wallace showed them that they do have something to fight for and by this, they earned their sovereignty. Even though the plot of this movie occurred around 700 years ago, the people back then still fought for what they believed in, even more so than in today’s society. The life for the average Scottish person back in this era was not very good. They were brutally and unfairly controlled by the English, and living where the practices of feudalism and absolutism were very common. William Wallace started rebelling towards the English when they killed his wife. If you didn’t secretly marry you’re the woman you love, one of the English Nobles would take her away to bed for the first night of your marriage and do what they wanted with her. Because of the bravery of all of the Scottish people and them having to put up with the English to that point, that made them realize that maybe if they fight back, they could earn back their rights, and not have to deal with how unfair the Scottish people were treated by the English. Because of William Wallace, the people of