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Blue Stockings - Mrs. Blake Flashcards

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NARRATOR: In the halls of Girton College…And yet, as these young women assemble in Miss Blake’s classroom, they must ask themselves: Is happiness found in knowledge, or in conformity?

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Well, how are we feeling? Full of joys of youth?

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ALL: Yes ma’am.

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Happy to be here?

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TESS: Yes ma’am.

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Why?

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TESS: Sorry, ma’am?

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Why does being here, in my classroom, make you happy?

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TESS: I’ve not studied moral science before.

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So happiness is knowledge, is it? Who said that?

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CAROLYN: Greek restaurant. Inscribed on a plate in the wall.

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Perhaps we should aim for more scholarly citations. Is Socrates right? Is happiness knowledge? Miss Moffat, convince us. Pretend we’re parliament debating your future.
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Go on. Convince me.

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TESS: “Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” Shakespeare.

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Too slow. Someone else.

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CAROLYN: A monk once told me, “He who knows himself is happy.” Lao Tzu.

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And do you know yourself?

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CAROLYN: Yes, ma’am.

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How very certain you are.

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CELIA: Ma’am, Francis Bacon said happiness is power.

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Well if that’s true, Queen Victoria must be the happiest woman in England.

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CAROLYN: Not with that dress sense.

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Valid point. But what is you had to choose? Love or knowledge? Miss Moffat?

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TESS: I… I wouldn’t want to choose.

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But I had to. Choose.

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CAROLYN: Most women would choose a family.

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But you’re not most women.

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CAROLYN: How would an orchard make you happy?

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It would of you were Isaac Newton. Mrs. Willbond, you’re a cynic.

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CELIA: I’m not, ma’am.

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Diogenes lived in a barrel, preached simplicity, and believed in living according to nature.

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CELIA: With no clothes on?

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He didn’t believe in material things.

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MAEVE: You know nothing.

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Miss Sullivan?

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MAEVE: You know nothing about it…‘The mind, like it’s creator, is free.’ John Clare.

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Well, Miss Addison? You know your leagues behind the men.

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TESS: They’ve had years of schooling on us.

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But you’re bright. And you’re here. We’re campaigning for your right to graduate. There’s to be a vote in January.

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CELIA: A vote?

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If Mrs. Welsh can persuade the Senate, yes. They say you lack the capacity for scholarship. Prove them wrong. Read everything. Learn everything. Know the philosophers—and think for yourselves. For Wednesday, three thousand words comparing Kant’s categorical imperative to Pluraslistic Deontology. And another three thousand on your own theory.

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TESS: Our own theory?

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Yes. Now, off to the library. You know the men won’t marry you if you choose knowledge. And I won’t lecture you… if you don’t.

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NARRATOR: Time moves forward…Can the arts and science coexist, or must one always prevail over the other?

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So you were barred from another lecture, I hear.

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CAROLYN: We were turned away at the door.

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Again? Well, this is becoming quite the page-turner. Makes me wonder if there’s any point of teaching you at all. Especially moral science. You’re dismissed.

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CAROLYN: What?

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Free to go.

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CELIA: You can’t just leave us.

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Why not? The world hurtles forward. What’s the point of the arts when technology evidently needs you more? Moral science? Pah! Worthless. Nothing compared to science and mathematics. Philosophers and poets have nothing to offer you.

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CAROLYN: That’s not true, ma’am.

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Why not?

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CAROLYN: We learn science through the arts, don’t we? Reason and logic in Galileo and Copernicus.

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So you’re arguing science is the highest form of knowledge?

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TESS: But what if it is ma’am?

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Go on.

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TESS: Science improves our lives in practical ways which arts cannot.

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Well put. Now, if that’s truly your opinion. get out.

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TESS: Why?

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Unless you can argue my position.

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TESS: But what if you don’t agree with it?

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A fine theorist agues both sides. Why might arts be superior to science? A contemporary thinker?

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CAROLYN: Arnold, ma’am.

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Good God, Miss Addison, you’ve discovered the library.

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TESS: Lovers are tangible.

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Miss Moffat? Have any evening rendezvous inspired your philosophical revelations?

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CAROLYN: But if your lover was dying… It’s the arts that make his life worth sustaining.

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Well said, Miss Addison.

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MAEVE: You’re all missing the point.

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Miss Sullivan?

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MAEVE: All the great scientists…But without the stories in the stained glass–well, then it would be no more than a barn.

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And who said that?

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MAEVE: No philosopher. It’s just what I think.

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And that is why I shall not be canceling my classes. The value of these lessons isn’t knowledge–it’s learning to think. You’re making progress ladies!

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MRS. BOTT: Progress comes in many forms, doesn’t it, Miss Moffat? Even in moonlit barns.

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Ladies, leave your books. I defy any of you to doubt the merits of the arts after you’ve examined the revolutionary work of Mr. Van Gogh.

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MRS. WELSH: There isn’t. She has responsibilities at home. Those children need a mother.

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And what of our responsibility to her? Isn’t college meant to lift women up, not send them back to servitude?

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MRS. WELSH: I have no choice.

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No, you’ve chosen safety over progress.

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MAEVE: But it’s my life! I’m going to be a teacher. This is my only chance.

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Can we please talk about this.

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MRS. WELSH: Ladies, you have work to do. Miss Sullivan, you’ll be leaving us in the morning.

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What are you doing, Welsh?

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MRS. WELSH: I’m ensuring the survival of this college.

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By betraying the very women were here to serve?

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MRS. WELSH: Miss Blake, this isn’t about ideals. It’s about perception. If we’re seen as radicals, we lose everything.

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And if we stand for nothing? Isn’t that a greater loss?

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CELIA: Oh God!

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No, no, don’t stop on my account. Such a fine deportment deserves an encore.

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CELIA: Carolyn!

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That’s not like you, Celia.

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CAROLYN: Mrs. Albright said we could perform it at the end of term.

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Did she? And has she seen it?

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CELIA: You told her it was a French folk dance! You never said it was the cancan!

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So, have you heard the news?

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TESS: Is there news?

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We heard yesterday.

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TESS: The vote…

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Yes!

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TESS: We didn’t get it?!

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We did! We got it!
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It’ hard to believe, but we did it! You should have heard Mrs. Welsh speak. She had them pinned to their seats.

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CAROLYN: What did she say.

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Something sharp enough to draw blood, but elegant enough to applaud. The Senate didn’t know whether to bow or run. They agreed that your right to graduate is at least a vote-worthy issue, though only university measures can vote.

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CELIA: So none of us?

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None of you. And no undergraduates. So write everyone you know. Times are changing, ladies, but not without a fight.

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TESS: Imagine. Maybe one day we’ll even have a voice.

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Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Oh, and the most remarkable woman is coming to Cambridge to speak–Millicent Fawcett.

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CAROLYN: The suffragist?

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The one in the papers.

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TESS: We can organize support–

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Let’s not trouble Mrs. Welsh or Albright with it just yet. Suffrage is political. and politics rattle delicate sensibilities.

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MINNIE: Rattled? I thought it shattered them.

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Quite right, Minnie. I’ll leave you to it, Miss Bott. Try not to let them destroy the furniture.

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CAROLYN: Ma’am…She won’ t get in trouble, will she?

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Ah, Mrs. Welsh, Mrs. Albright. I was hoping to catch you–

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MRS. WELSH: Go to your room, Carolyn.

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Is everything alright?

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MRS. WELSH: What’s this?

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Ah.

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MRS. WELSH: Ah? Miss Blake, you know my stance on this.

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I don’t see the harm in inviting the girls to listen.

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MRS.WELSH: If we get blown off course now–

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Blown of course? We’ve already told them they can’t speak; not they can’t listen?

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MRS: ALBRIGHT: Oh, for heaven’s sake, Miss Blake, it’s not the – it’s what they might do after they listen.

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What they might do? You mean think for themsleves?

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