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    Fifty years after the film’s initial release in 1965, viewers of The Sound of Music could measure the imprint of the women’s movement of the 1970s by how very different—antiquated actually—the film is in terms of marital roles. Whether Liesl in the first half of the film or Maria in the second, their acceptance of the dominance of husbands over wives stood out like a blade of grass needing to be cut in 2015 for all but a minority of viewers. Yet the internal changes that Maria and the Captain have the courage to undergo resonate in any age, being so much a part of human nature, as distinct from sociological artifacts.

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    Fifty years after the film’s initial release in 1965, viewers of The Sound of Music could measure the imprint of the women’s movement of the 1970s by how very different—antiquated actually—the film is in terms of marital roles. Whether Liesl in the first half of the film or Maria in the second, their acceptance of the dominance of husbands over wives stood out like a blade of grass needing to be cut in 2015 for all but a minority of viewers. Yet the internal changes that Maria and the Captain have the courage to undergo resonate in any age, being so much a part of human nature, as distinct from sociological artifacts.

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    The Sound of Music: Marital Roles and Inner Transformations

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    Dr. Skip Worden
    Fifty years after the film’s initial release in 1965, viewers of The Sound of Music could measure the imprint of the women’s movement of the 1970s by how very different—antiquated actually—the film is in terms of marital roles. Whether Liesl in the first half of the film or Maria in the second, their acceptance of the dominance of husbands over wives stood out like a blade of grass needing to be cut in 2015 for all but a minority of viewers. Yet the internal changes that Maria and the Captain have the courage to undergo resonate in any age, being so much a part of human nature, as distinct from sociological artifacts.

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    The Sound of Music: Marital Roles and Inner Transformations

    Fifty years after the films initial release in 1965, viewers of The Sound of Music
    could measure the imprint of the womens movement of the 1970s by how very
    differentantiquated actuallythe film is in terms of marital roles. Whether Liesl in
    the first half of the film or Maria in the second, their acceptance of the dominance of
    husbands over wives stood out like a blade of grass needing to be cut in 2015 for all
    but a minority of viewers. Yet the internal changes that Maria and the Captain have
    the courage to undergo resonate in any age, being so much a part of human nature,
    as distinct from sociological artifacts.
    The full essay is at The Sound of Music.

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