Go to YOUTUBE movies take the 1:32:50 one (it’s clearer)
1. As you go through the film, identify the following characters:
and their political ideologies and roles during this revolutionary period of French history:
Sir Percy Blakeney
Lady Margurite Blakeney née Marguerite St. Just
Armand St. Just
The Comtesse de Tournay de Basserive
Mlle. (Mademoiselle) Suzanne de Tourney
Sir Andrew Foulkes
M.(Monsieur) Chauvelin
2. How had Marguerite St. Just inadvertently betrayed the Marquis de St. Cyr and his family so that they died cruel deaths at the hands of the revolutionaries on the guillotine? In your opinion were their deaths justified or not?
3.What do these terms mean?
émigré
citoyen/citoyenne
the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
a scarlet pimpernel is a _______________
the guillotine
4. According to the story, why does the Sacarlet Pimpernel risk his life to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine of citoyen Robespierre?
5. Who is the real Scarlet Pimpernel then?
