Marlene the Conservative
...the Oxford University Conservative Association. As Miss Margaret Roberts, she contested two parliamentary elections of the Conservative Party, in 1950 and 1951, before being elected (after her marriage) to the House of Commons in 1959 as Member for Finchley. Lady Thatcher's first ministerial appointment came in 1961, when she became a parliament secretary to the then ministry of pensions and national insurance, remaining in this position until the change of government in 1964. From 1964 to 1970, while the Conservatives were in opposition, she was a front-bench spokesman for her party, and from 1967, a member of the Shadow Cabinet. When the Conservatives returned to office in June 1970, she was appointed secretary of state for education and science and was made a privy counsellor. After the general election of February 1974, she was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet and became Opposition front-bench spokesman, first on the environment and later (in December 1974) on Treasury matters. She was elected leader of the Conservative Party and thus leader of the opposition on February 1975. Lady Thatcher's husband, Sir Denis Thatcher, whom she married in 1951, served in the Second World War as a major in the Royal Artillery. He is a former director of Burmah Castrol and is a director of other companies. He was made a baronet in December 1990. Sir Denis and Lady Thatcher have a twin son and daughter, Mark and Carol, who were born August 15, 1953. Lady Thatcher is chancellor at Buckingham University, England, and chancellor of William and Mary College, Virginia. She has received a large number of awards and honorary degrees. Lady Thatcher is patron of a number of charities and has established her own foundation. (source: http://www.uu.edu/front/features/front/fall98/mtbio.htm) Marlene is a typical example of new woman of the 80`s. She is very attractive, has a well-paid job, she is single, and has freedom. She can buy expensive clothes, shoes; she can travel around the world she can “play” with men. So Marlene is able to do whatever and whenever she wants. She doesn’t like the working class, which is represented by Joyce in this play. Marlene left home to escape the awfulness of her parents’ working-class existence. As she is saying on page “I hate working class which is what you’re going to go on about now…it means lazy…” (and they are always complaining). Marlene doesn’t like them, because they don’t have the opportunity to shout it out: WE WANT TO BE FREE! She thinks they don’t want to change, it’s enough what they can get, they don’t need more. In this case we should say, she doesn’t like her sister, because she is doing the same what the working class. Complaining, whining, etc. Marlene brain is working in the s...