Lady Jane, Cadfael, and My Daughter
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qosThe other night I got out Lady Jane and watched it for the first time in years. I tried to get The Daughter to watch it with me, but after her first enchantment with Jane and Guildford's "What do you want?" scene with the broken goblets and their romance, she got bored. But before she left, we paused the movie a couple of times to discuss the issues within the film: the political and economic conflicts, the Catholic and Protestant issues (and their political and economic ramifications for the main characters), and Jane's ultimate decision to die rather than betray her faith.
A few nights later we were watching the Brother Cadfael mystery A Morbid Taste for Bones. Before we started, I had to explain to her what a saint was, so she would understand the fuss about a dead girl's bones and why both the abbey and the Welsh village wanted them. In the course of this, I tried to explain the concept of martyrdom, which I simplified as "someone who dies for what they believe in."
"Oh," she said. "Like Queen Jane."
Written out here, perhaps it seems like an easy and obvious connection, but she's not yet ten years old, and I hadn't thought she was paying that close attention when I was trying to educate her about the issues in Lady Jane. I was both pleased and impressed.
A few nights later we were watching the Brother Cadfael mystery A Morbid Taste for Bones. Before we started, I had to explain to her what a saint was, so she would understand the fuss about a dead girl's bones and why both the abbey and the Welsh village wanted them. In the course of this, I tried to explain the concept of martyrdom, which I simplified as "someone who dies for what they believe in."
"Oh," she said. "Like Queen Jane."
Written out here, perhaps it seems like an easy and obvious connection, but she's not yet ten years old, and I hadn't thought she was paying that close attention when I was trying to educate her about the issues in Lady Jane. I was both pleased and impressed.
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Date: 2005-09-09 02:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-09 04:58 am (UTC)I've read lots of Cadfael books, but I didn't know they had C tv too.
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Date: 2005-09-09 01:01 pm (UTC)The BBC did a bunch of them with Derek Jacobi as Cadfael. I tried one of the books and couldn't get through it -- I've never been one for mysteries. But the television series is quite entertaining.
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Date: 2005-09-09 12:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-09 02:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-11 01:29 am (UTC)