https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717 Context - add a box for different elements of context you could write about for Machinal - note which characters/moments/scenes they particularly relate to en-us 2023-04-17 00:34:13 UTC 2026-01-24 02:09:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3ad.png https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556283614 Treadwell witnessed her parents troubled marriage her father left and moved to San Fransisco. This key event continued to trouble her throughout her life and family relationships and marriage would become a key theme explored by Treadwell in her novels and plays. ]]> 2023-04-17 03:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556283614 https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556290020 She had an unconventional marriage for the time she was alive in as she made the decision to keep her own name. She continued to focus primary on her career instead of having children and lived separately from her husband at times. This is reflected in Machinal through YW's distance to George H Jones. ]]> 2023-04-17 03:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556290020 https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556290251 She was a member of an organisation called the Lucy Stone League. She marched for women's sufferage, campaigning for the 'Votes for Women', along with the rights of women to obtain birth control and be more sexually liberated. ]]> 2023-04-17 03:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556290251 https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556294452 There were several times throughout her life when Treadwell was hospitalised due to mental illness and anxiety. This became something which she struggled with until she died in 1970, at the age of 84. This can be seen through Young Woman's constant anxiety. ]]> 2023-04-17 03:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556294452 https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556299540 She had several professions: playwright, producer, director, actress and respected journalist. When she graduated from university in 1906 she trained as a reporter with the San Fransisco Bulletin. She wrote hundred of newspaper stories during her journalistic career and worked as a reporter during WW1, which was uncommon for women at the time. She wrote about important social issues like homeless women. ]]> 2023-04-17 03:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556299540 https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556306940 The character of Young Woman was based on Ruth Snyder's story, who was sent to an electric chair in 1928 for murdering her husband. Snyder was from New York and plotted to murder her husband with her side-piece. The trial was well documented by journalists at the time. ]]> 2023-04-17 03:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556306940 https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556318897 In 1920, for the first time, the US census showed that a majority of Americans lived in cities with a population of over 2,500 people. Throughout the decade, the US continued to adopt and embody strong urban values, fuelled by the development of cars, roads, radio and the film industry. By 1929, however, the stock market crash known as Black Tuesday marked the beginning of the Great Depression, when international trade plunged by more than 50% and unemployment in the US rose to 25%. In Machinal, Treadwell conveys strong anti-capitalist ideas. Young Woman inhabits an urban environment which is materialistic, mechanised and soulless.]]> 2023-04-17 03:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2556318897 https://padlet.com/sfry4/e3dd3tsm7ure8717/wish/2559436906 Positives:
- Better work opportunity
- Education improved
- Access to goods and services
- Development of new technology 

Negatives:
- Overcrowding
- Poverty
- Social inequality (leading to development of slums)
 

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