Pirates of the Caribbean: Beyond the Myth
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Pirates of the Caribbean:Beyond the Myth
English 1102Dr. Jo Anne Harris
Lesson 5: Women Pirates in a Masculine World
Social Issues Gender Issues Family Issues
Narratives
• Born in the upper class
• Adapted to pirate society, lifestyle, and relationships
• Pardoned in trial
• More masculine than feminine
• Cross-dressing• One source
suggests raised as a man
• Good family• Daughter of an
Irish lawyer• Thrown out by
father after her impulsive marriage
Video
• Unknown cause of death
• Suggests she was pardoned because of her father’s position as a plantation owner
• Feminine• Beautiful
woman• Raised as a
woman
• High class family owned a plantation
• Left her first husband for Calico Jack
Group 4Anne Bonny
Mary ReedSocial and Gender Family
Narrative • Continued to be raised as a boy because male life > female life
• Ran away to become a sailor then a solider then a cavalry man then a sailor again
• Became a pirate after finding it more exciting than a sailor life
• Claimed pregnancy before being execution
• Died of fever
• Raised as a boy to replace her dead brother
• Raised as a boy so her paternal grandmother would leave property to her family
• Fell in love with another cavalry man and left the military to be married and run a tavern
• Second husband was a prisoner of her crew
• Fought duels in her husband’s place
Video • Raised as a boy• Became a pirate in the
disguise of a man• Died due to fever or
complication during birth
• Her family raised her as a boy
• Used pregnancy as an excuse to delay execution
Group 4Mary Reed
Social And Gender
Family
Narrative • Both great fighter
• Both fought until the last moment and even fired upon their own crew when they refused to fight
• Just friends• Both claimed
pregnancy to escape execution
Video • Only Mary was considered an excellent fighter
• Openly admitted to being women pirates
• Considered to be lovers
• Calico got jealous of Anne’s love of “Mark” until finding out “he” was Mary
Group 4Mary And Anne