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Elisabeth:
Shall we start our lessons? Louisa:
I don't have to do what you say. You're just a servant. Elisabeth:
That's enough! Be silent! You will obey me whether you want to or not! You will obey because poor as I am, I am placed in authority over you. You will not speak disrespectfully to me or raise your voice to me. Louisa:
[Taunting]
Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! [Elisabeth throws a cup of blue paint onto Louisa. Then, true to her word, she throws a cup or red on herself] Elisabeth:
I'm not a servant, I'm a *prisoner*! So will you be when you grow up. The day you come of age the gates will close around you because you are a *woman*! If you marry, everything you own will become the property of your husband. If you don't marry every profession will be closed to you but *one*, and that one is a life of loneliness and humiliation. They lock you up, Louisa! But there's one part they can lock up: They can't imprison your mind. And that's why I want you to learn to read. I want you to have your own life!
Shall we start our lessons? Louisa:
I don't have to do what you say. You're just a servant. Elisabeth:
That's enough! Be silent! You will obey me whether you want to or not! You will obey because poor as I am, I am placed in authority over you. You will not speak disrespectfully to me or raise your voice to me. Louisa:
[Taunting]
Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! Servant! [Elisabeth throws a cup of blue paint onto Louisa. Then, true to her word, she throws a cup or red on herself] Elisabeth:
I'm not a servant, I'm a *prisoner*! So will you be when you grow up. The day you come of age the gates will close around you because you are a *woman*! If you marry, everything you own will become the property of your husband. If you don't marry every profession will be closed to you but *one*, and that one is a life of loneliness and humiliation. They lock you up, Louisa! But there's one part they can lock up: They can't imprison your mind. And that's why I want you to learn to read. I want you to have your own life!
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I don't have to do what you say You're just a servant
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That's enough Be silent
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You will obey me whether you want to or not
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You will obey me because poor as I am I am placed in authority over you
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You will not speak disrespectfully to me or raise your voice to me
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Servant Servant Servant
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Servant Servant Servant
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Servant Servant Servant
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I'm not a servant I'm a prisoner
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So will you be when you grow up
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The day you come of age the gates will close around you
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because you are a woman
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If you marry everything you own will become the property of your husband
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If you don't marry every profession will be closed to you but one
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and that one is a life of loneliness and humiliation
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They lock you up Louise
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But there's one door they can't lock
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They can't imprison your mind
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and that's why I want you to learn to read
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Movie Summary
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a ...
Actors
Elisabeth Laurier
