Suffragette - Never surrender Never give up the fight
- Basmah Abdullah Zahid
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 5, 2020

Suffragette is a story about the injustice with the women and about their fight or struggles to get back their basic rights. Basically, it's the first era of Feminism or Feminist theory. The movie's story revolves around a specific group of working ladies who were protesting peacefully for their rights and equality among male dominant society.
For decades women had no rights to give their arguments and Men had all the control over their children and economically too. Women had no right to get an education or even they can not do a job according to their own interest level. Men torture women and young girls at homes and workplaces. In short, women are the property of men.
The story revolves around all the past issues faced by girls and women. According to history, the movement started by a small group of women trying to get back their rights especially 'Right to Vote'. A group of Women presented a testimony in-front Judiciary for the 'Women Suffragette Bill'. According to the bill, women get the right to vote. On the announcement day, the bill was rejected and the chaos broke out among the crowd. The police attacked and arrested the women from the crowd, the whole event happened in 1884.
The slogan adopted for the campaign was 'Deeds, not Words' and 'Votes for women'.
During the movement, many of the ladies lost their jobs, lost their houses and even some of them sacrificed their children because of the struggle they were doing to get their rights. They were passionate to get back all of their rights.
in 1906, Emmeline Pankhurst (a prominent member of Suffragette movement) make an open-air speech, Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) members were arrested and imprisoned for some days. Even the authorities torturing through forced-feeding the arrested members.
The Suffragette movement didn't end, the members of WSPU started militant moves such as bombing mailboxes, breaking glass windows and attacked an empty senator's house. But they emphasized that no people should be harmed in the course of the bombing.
In the past history of Britain, Women were and ignored member of society. Suffragette movement's leader said: "Fight for your right, no matter what the circumstances are."
Emily Wilding Davison, a prominent member of the movement arrested 9 times and force-fed for 49 times. On the Derby event, she decided to draw attention to the suffrage cause and disrupt the Derby. She stepped in front of the speeding horse 'Anmer', possibly attacked with a WSPU banner to its bridle. This horror event happened in 1913, thousand of women attended her funeral, the coffin passed by the street of London.
Emily's death reported all over the World and this incident drew attention globally to the Women's right. In 1918, the voting right was granted to over 30 aged women upon some conditions.
A famous slogan "Never surrender Never give up the fight" has made the movement succeeded in getting their all basic rights especially the Voting right. After the Suffragette movement, in 1928 everyone (Men & Women) were allowed to vote but over the age of 21.
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