“To Walk Invisible”- The Bronte Sisters

This movie depicts the life of three women that came from a rural area who wrote the most beautiful, passionate and feminist novels. The Bronte sisters had a strong bond with each other and together they broke the many taboos of the 19th Century. One of which was demanding equal rights for men and women.

The movie takes place in Yorkshire which is the rural area where the Bronte Sisters lived. It being rural makes it very conservative as well. But the movie focuses more on the hardships of the Bronte’s family life. Starting with their brother’s drug and alcohol addiction which seemed to affect the success of the Bronte sister’s because they were worried about him. Not to talk about his affair with one of the employer’s wife where he worked. Also, their father was another reason they were worried because he was a fragile man who cared a lot about morals and the public opinion.

My favorite scene in the movie is the opening scene where the Bronte siblings are represented with flaming halos in their heads which I believe it is to portray their creativity. They are playing with some small living toys found in a box in a table in the middle of their house. Charlotte was the first one who found Emily’s poems and thought they need to be published. They found their bond and complex characters would bring them great success and finally no more hardships for their family. They published their work by nicknames and did not use their real name because they knew that they would be judged because of the things that they wrote about.

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