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This 5 page paper discusses the 1984 TV movie "The Burning Bed" with regard to the social responsibilities, values and ideas of the characters. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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enduring years of abuse at his hands. This paper analyzes the major characters in the film and considers their social responsibility. Well look at Francine, her husband, her mother, her
children, her in-laws, her best friend, and the police. Discussion The reaction to the film itself has been largely positive; most critics are lavish in praising Farrah Fawcetts performance
as Francine. After years of playing "plastic" characters who were all looks and no brains, Fawcett proved that she could act. But the film is also problematic, and tends to
raise more questions than it answers. The story is simple, as noted above: after being battered for years and finding no help anywhere, Francine Hughes doused her drunken husband and
the entire house with gasoline and set it on fire, killing him. When the facts of his brutal treatment came out at her trial, she was found not guilty by
reason of insanity, "which is about as close to justifiable homicide as is legally possible" (OConnor, 1984). The central character in the story is Francine, and we could argue that
when she married Mickey, her social responsibility was to become his partner and build a life together. In that she is typical. Despite decades of struggle, most women continue to
be defined only in relation to the men in their lives, not as themselves. That is, they are somebodys wife and somebodys mother, not people in their own right, and
this narrowly-defined role is still the one that most people consider a womans most important job. However, when the woman is not allowed to be a partner, then we have
to consider how she can fulfill her "accepted" responsibility, if indeed she can. The source for this paper is a detailed review that appeared on the Internet Movie Database, which
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