Humanities Homework Help

For this bonus assignment, view the film Elizabeth and review the primary source text First Blast of the Trumpet” by John Knox and the relevant sections of Merry Wiesner-Hanks’ chapter “Gender and Power”.

In a two page essay discuss how female power is depicted in the film. With reference to at least two specific scenes from the film, address how the depictions of female power in your selected scenes reflect (or not) the concerns or challenges of gendered power in the Wiesner-Hanks reading. Keeping in mind that Elizabeth is a MODERN film, do any of the gendered depictions of power reflect Knox’s concerns in First Blast of a Trumpet? Do they reflect modern stereotypes or concerns of women in power?

If you have watched the movie already it would be great but not required.