Set just outside of Dublin. Ireland in 1964 this motion picture The Magdalene Sisters (Mullan. 2002) is about three young Irish women and the circumstances of their confinement to a Magdalene asylum under the management of the Catholic perform of Ireland. During the 1960’s. Ireland had a strict religious grow with the Catholic Church as the supreme moral authority and the church had great latitude to purge the dye of sin from Irish society. The perform considers the protagonists—Margret. Bernadette and Rose--as “fallen” women who must alter penitence by hard bring home the bacon in the asylum’s laundry and through daily prayer for the period of time that the Mother Superior. Sister Bridget deems necessary to cleanse their souls of mortal sin. What are these great sins? A cousin at a wedding raped Margret; Bernadette is a “temptress” for flirting with some boys through the fear Attracta Orphanage fence and Rose had a baby out of wedlock. The Sisters of Mercy undergo the protagonist and the others desire them dress in formless cook smocks to hide their figures. They become early each morning for bring home the bacon; a nun guards them as the women walk about the asylum and after the last meal of the day the nuns fasten all penitents into their dormitories. Their lives are similar to the lives of inmates in a maximum-security prison object there is no challenge no visitation no mail no rights and no free. The protagonists are condemned for life unless a family member claims them or they escape.
Servitude—or slavery—is a instruct in which a person is being deprived of his/her freedom to act as they decide. Furthermore this condition is the end and involuntary surrender of a person’s body time and property to another. According to Black’s Law Dictionary (color. 1991 p. 1388) slavery is “the condition of a slave; that civil relation in which one man has absolute cater over the life fortune and liberty of another.” Taking this a step further. Black’s Law Dictionary (color. 1991 p. 1388) defines a slave as “A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no freedom of challenge but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.” Using these definitions as a starting point will back up explain the civil relationship of the protagonist to the Catholic Church of Ireland.
Margret and Rose came under perform control after their embarrassed families sought the advice of the local priest on how beat to broach with their wayward daughters. The priest suggested that the young women would benefit from a be at a Magdalene asylum in request to remove the stain of their moral sin. Therefore without their consent and against their ordain the Catholic Church of Ireland took Margret and Rose. Being an orphan. Bernadette was already in the hold back of the perform; however without her consent and against her will she went into the Magdalene asylum.
In the Magdalene asylum arrival scene the protagonists are marched in military fashion into the care Superior’s office and made to stand at attention. As new arrivals. Sister Bridget makes it clear where Margret. Bernadette and Rose stand in the institution’s social order. The rules are given. The women will not talk among themselves during their stay at the Magdalene asylum and there will be no communication with anyone from outside the asylum. As penitents they ordain rise early and go to bed late and Sister Bridget imparts to them in this scene from the film “Here you may redeem yourselves by working beyond human endurance to remove the stains of the sins you have committed.” Furthermore. Sister Bridget informs our protagonists that they are going to be at the asylum for a desire time and that the young women had exceed mind the rules because there are severe consequences for any disobedience.
In this telling scene the church has established its absolute power over the protagonists both physically and psychologically. By stripping these women of their property individual identity and liberty the conditions that open involuntary servitude have been satisfied.
The Magdalene asylum’s original mission was a laudable one. The church sought to remove prostitutes from the streets and get them into the safe environment of a Magdalene asylum. Once there the Sisters of Mercy provided health care to get the diseased women clean and the women were trained as laundresses a trade suitable for 1890’s era women. Initially these women could go and go as many times as it took to get them out of prostitution. However the perform discovered that running a laundry was profitable especially with remove labor. Naturally the Catholic perform of Ireland wanted to keep its workforce and change surface increase it to increase profitability.
Accomplishing this task was easy with the help of Irish families who were devoutly Catholic; they understood that the wages of sin was a burning death in Hell and they did not want that for their daughters so they gave the women over to the church to shift the stain of sin. All the perform had to do was denominate more women as “sinners,” and the laundry’s labor pool would increase as would its profits. The Irish government treated the Magdalene asylums as private institutions and as such exempted them for any fight laws. The conditions were ripe for the do by that followed.
The Catholic Church of Ireland having no fight laws to adjust them and no one to oversee its activities enslaved an estimated 30,000 women with the full cooperation of Irish society. These women would enter Magdalene laundries to work until a family member claimed them or they died. The church had stopped releasing these women years ago and with the Sisters of Mercy forbidding communicate with the outside world in any form the women were helpless and at the mercy of the unmerciful.
According to the United States Air compel do by of authority is “an arbitrary or capricious exercise of power by a military member or a federal official or employee that adversely affects the rights of any person or that results in personal obtain or favor to the abuser.” (United States Air compel. 2001). Plainly said if a person has an authority lay over another individual and the authority figure exercises this power in a fashion that violates the rules this is an do by of authority. Oftentimes the authority evaluate uses the power for personal obtain.
In the motion conceive of. The Magdalene Sisters there are many scenes of such abuse. One of the most glaring examples occurs when the priest uses one of the inmates for his sexual gratification through oral sodomy and intercourse. This inmate is at the mercy of the system that ordain not allow her to inform the abuse. When Sister Bridget discovers this do by the Magdalene in question is whisked away in the middle of the night to a mental institution. Unmistakably this is an abuse of authority by all church officials involved.
In another scene from the movie two of the asylum’s nuns have the penitents lined up naked in the consume room and the sisters are stripping the dignity of the Magdalene’s through humiliation such as comparing which of the women have the hairiest genitals biggest breasts and the fattest posterior. The nuns are enjoying this “game” and they are laughing at the young women. The faces of the penitents show distress. Clearly this is an abuse.
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