Marie Antoinette Response Paper

In the film, Marie Antoinette is portrayed as a selfish but innocent young girl from
Austria who is sent off to marry Louis Auguste, the Prince of France. As she gets accustomed to the rich life in France, she starts to be portrayed more as a selfish teenager who spends all the country’s money and is completely out of touch with the needs of the people of France. Her historic reputation shows her as rich, spoiled, and out of touch with the needs of the French people and the movie does a very good job at portraying her as just that. Many scenes in the film shows us a different reason to believe that Marie Antoinette’s life was a privileged party life. In the scene where her and her friends go to Paris to the masked ball, where they drink and dance and meet men to be pleasured by. The next scene that shows us that she had a favored party life is when she is celebrating her 19th birthday and she has a huge party at her castle and everybody gets drunk. The final scene that shows us she had a privileged party life is when Marie and a few of her friends go to see the sunrise and they bring a bottle of wine that they drink while they watch. There are many scenes in the film that also show us the struggles and challenges
Marie Antoinette had. Like in the scene when she is walking down the corridor and all the
French civilians are talking about her behind her back about how she hasn’t produced an heir for them yet. Another scene that shows us the pressured life Marie has was when she was reading the letter from her mom saying she needed to secure her marriage by producing an heir to the throne. Her mother says that she is disappointed in Marie because her siblings have already gotten married and had kids before she has. The final scene that shows Marie had a stressed and challenging life was when she went to the opera and she started to clap and everybody stared back at her like she was insane. Everybody was judging her by then

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