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| | Mother Figure in Film |
 | | In the three films “Triumph of the Will”, “La Marseillaise”, and “Lifeboat” the traditional role of “mother” is assigned to female characters and used as a tool in order to unify the population of each country (Germany, France, and the United States respectively), during times of social and political upheaval, with renewed nationalistic sentiments. |
 | | From the first film, “Triumph of the Will”, the scene that presents the German mother bringing flowers to Hitler, then in “La Marseillaise” there is the scene with the young mother walking by the resting soldiers, and finally, in “Lifeboat” the scene where Mrs. |
 | | The mother in this film should be sitting in front a nice warm fire with her child at home, not trudging through the night dragging the child behind her and it is a major failure on the part of French men that she is not able to do so. |
| www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/clio/student-papers/gautier2001.htm (3355 words) |
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