Outline
Title: Marie Antoinette
Thesis: Marie Antoinette may have been queen at a young age, but it was certainly short lived. As a social, outgoing, and energetic young woman, she was completely different from her shy, inconsistent, pre-chosen husband. She spent an irrational amount of money that lead to her reputation’s ultimate downfall. As time went on the king and queen were captured and when they tried to escape, they would just be captured again. King Louis’ indecisiveness and Marie’s recklessness ultimately caused them their lives.
I. Introduction (1st and 2nd slides)
a. Thesis: Marie Antoinette may have been queen at a young age, but it was certainly short lived. As a social, outgoing, and energetic young woman, she was completely different from her shy, inconsistent, pre-chosen husband. She spent an irrational amount of money that lead to her reputation’s ultimate downfall. As time went on the king and queen were captured and when they tried to escape, they would just be captured again. King Louis’ indecisiveness and Marie’s recklessness ultimately caused them their lives.
b. Marie Antoinette was married at the age of 15 and became queen at the age of 19. She loved spending money on pointless things even though France was suffering from bad harvests and high taxes. The people grew to despise her and said terrible things about her. They blamed her for everything even though it wasn’t her fault and in the peoples rage, they started the French Revolution. After that,
Citation- Price, Munro. The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy. New York: St. Martin 's Press, 2003.
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"Marie Antoinette was the Austrian born child bride of the future King Louis XVI of France. It was an arranged marriage designed to
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After a few years, they manage to have children. Marie Antoinette wanted the French people to
The above impassioned speech indicates that Antoinette is gradually moving, though slowly, towards achieving a kind of epiphany or realization of what is going on and of her need for an independent self and an identity of her own. When Rochester talks to Antoinette about justice, she simply replies: “There is no justice” (Rhys, 1997, p. 94). Antoinette feels disappointed and reacts strongly: “She smashed another bottle against the wall and stood with the broken glass in her hand and murder in her eyes” (Rhys, 1997, p. 95). Rochester announces that Antoinette has become his own property and now he is planning to take her, against her will, to live in England where he simply locks her in the attic as an attempt to eliminate her from existence.