Braveheart!

The movie”Braveheart” is a story about a Scotsman called William Wallace (Mel Gibson) and his fight for the freedom of the Scottish people from the English. After seeing the death of his wife, killed by an English man, William got together the Scott people’s power to fight with the English. Very soon the personal revenge turned into a national crusade. In the film, it showed that people in Scotland had distinct social classes. The outfits of the lower class were always grey and ragged. They lived in the village and there were no tiles on the ground. They were mud. However, the people from higher class had a feast very often. They drank and ate meat. They dressed themselves nice and clean. From the very beginning of the movie, I think the society in Scotland was a little backward. There were some privileges for the nobility. One of them, I found it is ridiculous, was that the lord of Scotland can have the right to spend the night with any newly married Scottish bride on the wedding night. It can tell the nobility has some many power over the lower class people. In the very beginning, people were obedient to the rules. It can be told that the Scottish people lived in the society of repression and fear under the ruling of the nobility and the England. But their passion for the freedom was arisen when William had a campaign about their freedom. A lot people were convinced and joined the “crusade” in the end.