Carrie And Rosemary's Baby: Movie Analysis

Abuse has everlasting effects, physically and mentally, on the victim. Abuse comes in many forms, such as verbal insults or sexual violence. In Brian De Palmer's Carrie is a story of a young girl named Carrie White whose telekinetic powers are revealed in moments of humiliation and fear. While Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, depicts a young woman's struggle with her unnatural pregnancy from a horrifying conception. Both films are iconic horror movies with a woman protagonist struggling against different forms of abuse.
Carrie deals mostly with physical and verbal abuse, while Rosemary mostly deals with sexual violence and emotional abuse. Carrie experiences her first period in the school showers, but is unaware of what's happening due to her religious-fanatic mother’s intense control over her. When Carrie's panic reaches its peek as her classmates bully her, she mistakenly breaks a light bulb with her powers. In this instance, the supernatural is revealed during times of fear and extreme …show more content…
In essence, Rosemary’s baby is the embodiment of evil. In comparison, Carrie White reaches her breaking point where she is doused with pig’s blood at prom in front of her peer and hallucinates that they are all laughing at her. In this instance, Carrie reveals her telekinetic powers after enduring years of abuse killing everyone in the gym. Both films portray abuse and violence as a catalyst for supernatural to be revealed. The audience is led to empathize with Carrie and Rosemary; They are young women who are forcibly kept naïve by people who they should trust and are powerless to control their bodies. Carrie has no control over menstruation, no control over her powers and no control over familiarly ties. Rosemary has no control in the conception and pregnancy of her child and her concerns were deemed irrational by