Discuss the issues of power and femininity that are developed in the film Elizabeth.

... Discuss the issues of power and femininity that are developed in the film Elizabeth In the film Elizabeth exist relevant issues of power and femininity which affected the queen during her monarchy. By power is meant the "control over people, a place or a situation" and by femininity is understood "having the qualities that are considered typical of a woman". These two issues develop in the film in order to create certain obstacles and other solutions while Queen Elizabeth is in power. Though they affect in different ways her government, they are also responsible for the final success of her country. In asserting power as the monarch o England, Elizabeth faces many difficulties and problems. She is seen as a bastard for being Anne Boleyn's (Henry VII's second wife) daughter; her cousin Mary of Guise wanted her throne in order to be queen of England and Scotland; and final but not less

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