father’s decision to leave her there, which is answered quite clearly by Sister Bridget’s brutal insults. Sister Bridget re- names Rose - Patricia, because they
already have a girl named Rose. In The Magdalene Sisters movie the writer understands that there are
several efforts which they have done to overcome the oppressions by three girls Margaret, Bernadette, and Rose. In this section the writer will explain
their efforts to escape from The Magdalene Asylums.
1. Margaret
Margaret is sent to the laundry as her father believes she lured her cousin into the act. Margaret tried to motivate her friends to escape from The
Magdalene Asylum and she also always remind them that they were not proper to live and threatened inhuman in The Magdalene Asylum. They have
to be more respected and get good treatments as if another girls because they only the victim of oppression, and harshness from men that they always saw
that the girls in Magdalene Asylum were sinful. Margaret becomes the power of her friends to give spirit to her friends to escape from The Magdalene in
anyway.
Beside that the efforts which Margaret done were she catches a glimpse of
Father Fitzroy forcing Crispina to satisfy his sexual desire, Margaret mixes poison ivy in with his undergarments to make him chary from what he had
done to Crispina, as an act of revenge on Crispinas behalf. When she saw the pastor in itchiness condition because the effect from poison that Margaret
mixed it in his undergarment. Look at the scenes below:
The Magdalene Sisters movie, 01:11:54
These act which Margaret done as an effort to show that the pastor is not “a man of god” because he committed a sexual abuse to Crispina, and the
pastor proper to get bad treatment from Margaret. Margaret said and show to her friends that the pastor had a bad attitude and even more sinful than the
girls in The Magdalene. Margaret as one of the main characters in the film The Magdalene Sisters
had a lot of pressures and sexual abuses finally took a stance against all the problems she faced. One type of attitude she took to fight the high-handedness
is a way to motivate herself and her surrounding environment to be free from pressure that will be undertaken by the nuns of The Magdalene Sisters who
treat her arbitrarily. Her efforts can be seen at the following dialogue and the scene below.
Margaret: Can you believe that its that simple?
That a brother can just turn up and... Can you believe that?
The Magdalene Sisters movie, 01:32:44
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
