Nurse edith cavell

Nurse Edith Cavell

Maybe Edith Cavell is sometimes seen as a heroine or as a jingoistic patriot but, in my opinion, she represents the role model for women during the Second World War, time inwhich the film was created.
Although through the poems we have been reading women during the First World War seem to be very passive and frivolous, we can see in the film they have a very active role,in fact, they are all women who organize how the soldiers should escape from the German-occupied Brussels. This shows that women are intelligent people who are able to develop a plan of action. Womenin the film do not think in war or in “their” soldiers, they are only worried about helping people. This is the way in which women during WWII were thought to act: being active but without thinking infight. At the end of the film Cavell says: “patriotism is not enough”, with these words she wants to express that we not only have to defend our country but also the whole world because all humans areequal. So women should be a symbol of peace.
Cavell is a very religious person. She reads the Bible frequently and her behaviour is the one understood as a good Christian behaviour. That is, shetreats all people equally: she helps both wounded from the Allies and wounded from the Axis. This behaviour is the typical of pacifists. So the film tries to encourage women to be pacifist and to beagainst the war.
Cavell never expresses their feelings to anybody. She is psychologically a very strong woman because she does not need to say her concerns to anybody. She only cries when she is alone.Women were seen before as irrational beings and what the film shows is that women are very rational and that they are not slaves of their feelings. However, the problem is that this carries on arepression of the feelings and women would be repressed.
Cavell has a celibacy life, even her clothes seem to be a nun’s clothes. She does not go out with any man and never in the film seem to be...