Season 3:
What a crispy season!!! so
much happened in Downtown Abbey, and so much of it was in my taste tragic,
especially that one of my favorite character died; I mean of course Sybil; the
third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Crawly .
But still one of the
best moment of this season was to see Mathew an Marie walking to the church and
saying ‘yes’ to each other, it was actually a moment that I was waiting for too
long.
New characters entered
in the house, which had made some change in the routine of the Downstairs lives.
Thomas, however; was very unlucky especially in love that season, and Mr. Bates
had face very difficult times in prison fortunately his beloved wife Anna was
there to support him and Mr. Crawley who helped in his release. And we cannot
forget Mrs. Hughes who discover that she was ill, she had a concert.
And poor Edith and her
relationship misfortunes. After a complicated courtship between her and Sir
Anthony Strallan, the two finally plan a wedding and make it all the way to the
altar—where Anthony leaves her, sobbing and rejected.
Yet, nothing had really change
in the relation ’upstairs, downstairs’. Nothing at least in downtown , but in Mrs.
Isobel’s house a new maid come in, it was Ethel who were a maid in Downtown but
had to leave her work there because she was pregnant and after her son’s grandparents
take him away from her; she become a prostitute. Mrs. Isobel find her and she
proposed her to become her cook to start a new life. But it was not that easy, some
people like Mr. crawly and Mr. Carson who refused to accept the fact that a prostitute
worked for the nobility.
However, Mr. Crawly had
finally accept but only partly Tom Branson_ Sybil’s husband_ in the family. Mr.
Crawly had put lot of effort to finally accept him because Tom was still a Chauffer
for him. In one of the scene; when Lady Sybil was given birth to her daughter,
and when they had to decide which doctor to trust, he refused to take Tom’s
point of view, unless; he was the concerned one.
And in another situation,
when Tom was in trouble and was followed by the police, Mr. Crawly clearly said
that, he is going to help him only for Sybil’s sake. Through this kind of situations;
we can say that in downtown Abbey, nobility stays nobility; and working class
stays working class.
Your comments are a bit light on this season; you mostly provide a quick summary of key events. Also, you seem to contradict yourself by saying that nothing has really changed in the upstairs/downstairs balance, and yet later evoking the fact that Mrs. Crawley has hired a former prostitute as maid and that former chauffeur Tom Branson has finally been accepted by the Crawley family and their staff. Don’t you think that these two events would have been impossible before the war? To me, they show that the social order has changed a little and can be seen as consequences of the slow process of democratization that World War One started.
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