Indholdsfortegnelse
1. Give a brief summary of plot and setting (what is the story about and where and when does it take place?)
2. Who are the main characters in the film? Make a description of the main characters.
3. How is the story line? Does it take place over a longer or shorter period of time?
4. Are the events in chronological order or are there flashbacks? Give examples.
5. In your opinion, what characteristics did Margaret Thatcher have that made her successful?
6. Which political party did she support?
7. When was Margaret Thatcher the Prime Minister of Great Britain and what was she known for?
8. List some of the historical events that took place during Margaret Thatcher’s time as PM.
9. After Margaret Thatcher resigned from the House of Commons, she was given a life peerage. What is a life peerage and who gave it to her?
10. What are the main themes and the message of the film?

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Uddrag
1. Give a brief summary of plot and setting (what is the story about and where and when does it take place?) The story takes place in London at Margaret Thatchers home past her time as the prime minister.

Specifically, it takes place in 2011, since we learn, that it has been 8 years since her husband died (Denis Thatcher died in 2003) The story revolves around her time as a prime minister, how she became prime minister, what she did, and how she was as the leader of the party.

There is therefore a lot of flashbacks taking us back to her youth and time as a prime minister. To make it more comprehensible, I’ve written my resume in chronological order and thereby not followed the order in the movie. In the beginning we meet Margaret in her youth.

We learn that she has been accepted to Oxford. Presumable after her education she joins the Conservative Party where she gets belittles and almost bullied for her determination to join politics in spite of her gender and background.

However, it is also here she meets her husband Denis Thatcher, and years after their twins are born, Margaret gets elected to the parliament, but continuously feels left out and is made fun of.

She gets convinced to run for prime minister and wins. We follow Thatcher in the critical times in her career as the prime minister e.g., the bombing by the IRA or the Falkland War.

Margaret is very stubborn and believes she must fight for herself and her political opinions alone. This makes her less empathetic towards her colleagues, and she ends up shaming Geoffrey Howe enough to resign from his post as Cabinet Minister.

Afterwards Michael Heseltine runs for the leader of the Conservatives challenging Margaret’s position and she ends up resigning.

At last, we meet her several years later, when her daughter comes to visit. In this present her husband has died, and she tries to get rid of her “ghost” but can’t, which makes the people surrounding her start whispering about how she has gone mad.

Margaret looks back at her memories, wishing she could rewind time, as she doesn’t have much left now. In the end Margaret gets rid of Denis’s clothes and belonging, making his “ghost” get away, and giving her peace.

2. Who are the main characters in the film? Make a description of the main characters.
Margaret Thatcher The protagonist in the Iron Lady is Margaret Thatcher. She was about 18 in the war, since she got accepted to Oxford when the war was still ongoing.

Her father was a grocer, so she came from a home in the middle-class, where Oxford became her gateway to the political scene.

Her father was also the major of her hometown Grantham. When she was young it seems like she was bullied or made fun of because of her social status.

That made her very self-reliant and stubborn, since she had to fight to get listened to, which also made her very determined to succeed.