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Women's Literature 9 Elizabeth I: How does she consolidate power 8 Views
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Thank you We sneak Elizabeth the first how does she
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consolidate power Alas shmoop so over the course of the
- 00:13
speech she switches from addressing the troops as we she
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is one of them she's both the royal we and
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part of the broader national league to talking about i
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so switching from a conversation where she has to position
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herself as just like the troops to a point where
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she can say i on my own i'm strong and
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powerful just subtle but pretty effective And i mean you
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mentioned the royal we write the royal we is this
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idea that if i were a queen i would say
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like so we disapprove The reason that i do that
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is that the body of the person in charge contains
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both the individual king but also this like divine spirit
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of king leanness So it's the sense that the king
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is never just one person There is the body of
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the king and then also the kingly spirit endowed right
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So this is where that phrase the king is dead
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Long live the king Come strong right So one part
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of the king is dead But in another sense the
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king is living so when queen elizabeth is using i
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hear really pointedly it's Interesting because she's not just saying
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this kingly nous that's in me has the heart of
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a man in the stomach of a man she's saying
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like me is an individual body I have the stomach
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of a man she's positioning herself as mortal in that
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instance which might seem to indicate vulnerability But it doesn't
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Why i think because she's saying that she's willing to
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lay down her life for it again she's saying like
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i've come here to the line of scrimmage to give
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you this pep talk and i could be killed right
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Maybe like long live the king The king can't be
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killed I could be killed and that's something i wanted
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to do for you right So there's like a very
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comrade irish This yeah so that what is the royal
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week What was elizabeth the first saying about herself when
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she switched from we tow I with great power comes 00:02:04.49 --> [endTime] great responsibility
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