A Brief Analysis of "The Witch"

Briana 2022-03-25 09:01:06

It's really hard for a non-believer like me to understand this movie.

Only after seeing the last part did I know that the black goat was possessed by a demon, and bit by bit the house was torn apart, one child after another died. That crazy mother was giving me a headache and trying to sew her mouth shut every time I spoke. Dad is a subwoofer and a super conceited man. Tomasi, a poor, beautiful little girl, became the last sacrifice. However, that may be the only way to end it.

Also, the transitions of the whole film are fading to black, and the overall tone is black. I adjusted the brightness of the phone to the highest and still looked blurry. The ending really hurts.

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Extended Reading

The Witch quotes

  • [first lines]

    William: [before the court] What went we out into this wilderness to find? Leaving our country, kindred, our fathers' houses? We have travailed a vast ocean. For what? For what?

    Governor: We must ask thee to be silent!

    William: Was it not for the pure and faithful dispensation of the Gospels, and the Kingdom of God?

    Old Slater: No more! We are *your* judges, and not you ours!

    William: I cannot be judged by false Christians, for I have done nothing, save preach Christ's true Gospel.

    Governor: Must you continue to dishonor the laws of the commonwealth and the church with your prideful conceit?

    William: If my conscience sees it fit.

    Governor: Then shall you be banished out of this plantation's liberties!

    William: I would be glad of it.

    Governor: Then take your leave, and trouble us no further.

    William: How sadly hath The Lord testified against you.

    William: [turning to leave] Katherine...

  • Thomasin: [walking gradually toward her sister] I be the witch of the wood.

    Mercy: Liar! Liar!

    Thomasin: I am.

    Caleb: List' not to her, Mercy.

    Thomasin: I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That's how I signed his book.

    Mercy: No!

    Thomasin: He bade me bring him an unbaptized babe, so I stole Sam, and I gave him to my master. And I'll make any man or thing else vanish I like.