From the action above it can be concluded that Margaret was a woman who has a sense of caring to her friends that they were oppressed during the
Magdalene. Margarets efforts are undertaken to motivate her friends to get out of the Magdalene. Refer to the theoretical framework in chapter II; Margarets
attitude that really cares about her friends who are oppressed, it can be considered as a reflection of a feminist, because she wanted freedom and equal
rights as human beings. She was eventually freed when her younger brother comes to collect her four years after her incarceration in the Asylum.
2. Bernadette
Bernadette is a beautiful teenage orphan who is sent to the Magdalene Laundry because she is flirtatious with the boys at the orphanage. However,
Bernadette, unlike the other three girls, is still a virgin. When she was in The Magdalene Asylum Bernadette makes a disastrous attempt to escape from The
Magdalene Asylum shortly after she arrives and has her hair cut off in punishment. She remains the most rebellious and headstrong of the girls,
making her hatred for the asylum clearly felt. She is ultimately good, helping the other girls and, in one scene, momentarily relinquishes her stony attitude
when the laundry overseer dies, kissing her on the forehead.
Bernadette: So, are we gonna get married?
Man: What? Bernadette:
We could run away together. Man:
Where would we go? Bernadette:
Go to England or America or something.
Bernadette: All right,
Do you have the keys to the back door? Man:
No, Seamus has them. Bernadette:
But you can get them? Man:
I think so. Bernadette:
Then get them and bring them here tonight. Man: Tonight?
Bernadette: Yeah.
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From the dialogue above the writer sees one of Bernadettes efforts to escape from The Magdalene Sisters that she tries to run away without
considering the rules and the punishments that she will get if she didn’t obey the regulation. She only thought how to escape from that place and she could
live in peace. She used every artifice to gain her wishes although she had to persuade the man who worked in The Magdalene. Bernadette wanted freedom,
and she wanted to get the same treatment like another girls outside The Magdalene Asylum. Bernadette, in the hopes that having sex with one of the
laundry delivery drivers will get him to help her escape, but Bernadette failed to run away from that place.
After Bernadette failed to escape from The Magdalene she tried another way to run away from that place, and now Bernadette persuaded her friends
named Rose to go out from the Magdalene but Rose initially doubt about Bernadette’s plan. Bernadette tried to convince Rose to trust her that they
could run away from that place. Look at the following scenes and the dialogues:
Bernadette : You know were both gonna grow old and die in here. No ones gonna
come for me. Or for you. I just dont want to feel like this for the rest of my life. I dont want to end up like one of them. So are you
ready?
Rose : Ready for what?
