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    Mona Lisa Smile is a 1950s drama film about a teacher named Katherine Watson who travels to teach at Wellesley College in New England. Throughout the film, Katherine finds it difficult to understand why the female students would give up their ambitions to get married, as was the traditional expectation for women at the time. The film uses references to art, like the Mona Lisa painting, and social issues to critique the patriarchal society that limited women's roles primarily to being mothers and wives, ultimately concluding that women deserve the right to make their own choices.

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    Mona Lisa Smile is a 1950s drama film about a teacher named Katherine Watson who travels to teach at Wellesley College in New England. Throughout the film, Katherine finds it difficult to understand why the female students would give up their ambitions to get married, as was the traditional expectation for women at the time. The film uses references to art, like the Mona Lisa painting, and social issues to critique the patriarchal society that limited women's roles primarily to being mothers and wives, ultimately concluding that women deserve the right to make their own choices.

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    Mona Lisa Smile is a 1950s drama film about a teacher named Katherine Watson who travels to teach at Wellesley College in New England. Throughout the film, Katherine finds it difficult to understand why the female students would give up their ambitions to get married, as was the traditional expectation for women at the time. The film uses references to art, like the Mona Lisa painting, and social issues to critique the patriarchal society that limited women's roles primarily to being mothers and wives, ultimately concluding that women deserve the right to make their own choices.

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    Mona Lisa Smile is a film based in New England in the 1950s.

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    references the famous art by Leonardo Da Vinci called Mona Lisa. The film is a
    drama about a teacher who travels to teach students in New England in a school
    called Wellesley. Throughout the film, there are references to social issues that
    affect women being addressed. The director uses art to present the way women’s role
    in society had been viewed in the 50s in America. Society at that time was largely
    patriarchal and women were seen as helpers. The main character, Katherine Watson,
    finds it hard to believe that women could accept to drop their ambitions in favor
    of getting married. Mona Lisa Smile criticizes the traditional views about women
    role only being mothers and wives and concludes that women have the right to make
    their own choices.

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