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+ | ====== Modeline ====== | ||
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+ | //A feminist drama set in the bohemian Paris of the Fin de siécle.// | ||
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+ | Late 19th century Paris is the world capital of art and culture. The reputation of the city originates then as regards fine arts and cabare, high fashion or modern architecture — just consider the Eiffel tower. | ||
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+ | Modernization is in full swing in third republic France: the church and state are being separated, railroads are getting built, socialism is more popular than ever, and the conservative forces that have long controlled society are ever weakening. | ||
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+ | The people on the streets and at the workplaces are moving towards what we would recognize as modernity, yet homes are still refuges of the safe and the familiar: women wash, cook and care for the children while the men bring in the bread. | ||
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+ | ===== Grains ===== | ||
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+ | * "Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male." | ||
+ | * "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." | ||
+ | * “A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.” | ||
+ | * -as well as any other Beauvoirisms you may care to add | ||
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+ | ===== Simone Percheron, model and poet ===== | ||
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+ | Simone is 16 years old, an only child. She's the daughter of the famous painter Jacques Percheron. The family lives in a spacious home on the Montmartre; Jacquest owns the entire building, with the bottom floors rented out as offices and the loft made out into an artist' | ||
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+ | Simone' | ||
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+ | Jacques is an impressionist, | ||
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+ | Simone finds it really shameful to model for her father, but Jacques insists that she possesses the perfect frame for this simple task, and he would rather not paint anybody else for now. When father' | ||
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+ | Simone has some creative inclinations herself as well, but this hardly matters in the Percheron household; Jacques considers the notion of female schooling and working life nothing but an amusing oddity. On the other hand, he's not really interested in marrying his daughter off either, now that he's started paying attention to her. Time will tell. | ||
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+ | Although the home does not really see other guests, Simone has a friend in the publishing house operating downstairs, where the roost is exceptionally ruled by a woman, one Caroline Kauffman. Caroline is a feminist and a suffragette, | ||
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+ | ^ | ||
+ | | 3 | **Stubborn** \\ As befits a hero of her own story. | | ||
+ | | 2 | **Poet** \\ Language games are a passion for Simone. | | ||
+ | | 2 | **Female** \\ Simone understands what is expected of her. | | ||
+ | | 1 | **Young** \\ Flexible and quick to learn. | | ||
+ | | 1 | **Model** \\ Simone has learned a thing or two about art from her father. | | ||
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+ | | 1 | **Naïve** \\ Young and inexperienced. | | ||
+ | | 1 | **Low self-esteem** \\ Result of the upbringing. | | ||
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+ | ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ||
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