In "The Duchess", she also played Georgiana, an 18th-century upper-class socialite duchess who was admired by thousands of people and led the fashion trend. 17-year-old Georgiana married into a wealthy family under the arrangement of her mother. In the absence of life, her mother chose such a marriage for her. When her mother told her, she was also full of joy and anticipation: but the reality was not what she expected, her husband's indifference and infidelity made her intolerable, and with the increase of age and experience, she began to seek her married life What she can't feel in her: passion. An extramarital affair begins with a young and energetic childhood playmate.
Her husband, Duke William, is a powerful noble. His family environment and upbringing have shaped him and his way of doing things since he was a child. He doesn't care about politics or which party wins or loses. He doesn't care about his wife's feelings and her close friends Tong, he doesn't care about his wife's hair on fire, what he cares most about is his own power and continuity, and he desperately desires a son to inherit his title. He really accepted Georgiana as his wife after she gave birth to a son for him. After Georgiana had a child with someone else, he still accepted her. Of course, some people would think that it was to preserve his duke's reputation. . But what he said to Georgiana still touched me:
I'm not particularly adept at expressing myself when it comes to matters of a more personal nature, but i shall try. Over the years, I have acted in ways that you have judged to be harsh. Well, I do not wish for you to undergo any further suffering. In fact, I would like our lives to find a calm normality.
And I stubbornly think that the latter sentence "In fact, I would like our lives to find a calm normality" would be even more soothing Impressed, but that doesn't quite fit the character of the Duke. Because of his words, and the shallow but sentimental smile behind him, I would have thought that the Duke's love for Georgiana, albeit a very limited love within his definition.
Georgiana chose the duke to be his husband, although it was not her own choice, she accepted it, perhaps she should sacrifice something ordinary people can have for such a marriage: she must bear an heir for her husband to succeed the title; She had to endure the selfishness of a powerful husband who had no environment for him to learn to love others; she could not elope like a lover and an ordinary person, because his aristocratic husband had the ability to let his little lover have the future destroy. She also has to endure her good friend staying in her marriage for many years, also because of her selfish husband and her husband's power that friends can take advantage of. Maybe she could choose to escape from this marriage, but as a mother, she couldn't let go of her blood ties to her children.
They all attained a noble position, a life of abundance, at the expense of freedom. "how wonderful to be that free," the Duke said to himself and Georgiana.
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