How come she doesn't give the men TB?
It's a highly contagious airborne disease spread by coughing and sneezing. Just count all of the times in the movie when she sneezes on her boyfriends.
shareIt's a highly contagious airborne disease spread by coughing and sneezing. Just count all of the times in the movie when she sneezes on her boyfriends.
shareDid they say that's what disease she had? I don't remember it being mentioned however I saw it a while ago.
shareIn the book she has consumption which is what they called TB back then. It hit her hard because of her lifestyle. In the beginning when she's in the carriage buying flowers with Prudence who is reproaching her for spending too much money she says she's always either too sad or too gay, too nervous, too this, too that, she spends too much money.. basically she's extreme and self indulgent.
Margeurite is a prostitute who lives in the moment but deep down she knows that once her looks are gone she's done. She has no skills other than having affairs with rich men who are infatuated with her because she plays hard to get. It gets harder to play hard to get the harder the face gets. That must have depressed her, made her drink more, party more, spend more, just to distract herself. She wanted to die young.
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There was a LOT of TB around in those days, she wasn't the only one who had it. The people in that society were exposed to TB and many other diseases every day, but they weren't going to barricade themselves in their houses to try to keep well! (wouldn't have done any good anyway, one sick servant could have brought the disease in).
shareIt seems in these kinds of films only female courtesans were condemned to death with TB as a punishment for their sinful lifestyles
shareI was wondering what disease she had. . .I thought it was tuberculosis because of the coughing and sneezing, but they didn't really come out and say. . .I was wondering why the men didn't catch it, but it didn't occur to me that many people had it back then anyway.
That's right, Maude, you should always have a back-up black.
TB isn't a disease that progresses quickly, so it may have been that they had gotten it. Just no reaction yet.
sharean astute observation
The World Health Organization estimates that 1/3 of the people in the world are infected with TB.
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