They are the strongest when they are together, relying on their emotional bonds. Using their powers against one another their sisterhoood is destroyed because it ruptures the trust. The only way that a community, a sisterhood survives is through the willingness of individuals to be members. That willingness, in turn, is a product of the emotional ties and support networks found. When the Halliwell sisters use their power against each other in the episode “Power Outage” (season 3 episode 7), they break that trust and thus destroy their sisterhood, which in turn is lost.
When, in ‘Power Outage’ (3.7), Andras, the demon of rage, provokes sufficient anger in each of the three to cause them to attack one another, the circles of the triquetra on the Book of Shadows draw apart, symbolizing the division among them as each discovers she has lost her powers. When they acknowledge each other’s contributions to the family and their own faults, the …show more content…
Leah R. Vande Berg and Sarah Projansky in their essay “Sabrina, the Teenage…?”, acknowledge the possibility that “Sabrina is providing young women and girls with ways of understanding themselves as independent and powerful, with images of play and pleasure that cross and destabilize gender binaries” (Helford 36).
Sabrina depicts an independent young woman living in a world where she is encouraged to use her strength, self- confidence and magical powers and where she is accepted and loved for who she is, even when who she is takes her across binary gender and sexuality boundaries. She learns and teaches lessons about a variety of types of dis-crimination, yet she always has a safe world of gender equality to which she can retreat and on which she can depend. These are the versions of feminism that we see the series as providing for its audience.
When, in ‘Power Outage’ (3.7), Andras, the demon of rage, provokes sufficient anger in each of the three to cause them to attack one another, the circles of the triquetra on the Book of Shadows draw apart, symbolizing the division among them as each discovers she has lost her powers. When they acknowledge each other’s contributions to the family and their own faults, the …show more content…
Leah R. Vande Berg and Sarah Projansky in their essay “Sabrina, the Teenage…?”, acknowledge the possibility that “Sabrina is providing young women and girls with ways of understanding themselves as independent and powerful, with images of play and pleasure that cross and destabilize gender binaries” (Helford 36).
Sabrina depicts an independent young woman living in a world where she is encouraged to use her strength, self- confidence and magical powers and where she is accepted and loved for who she is, even when who she is takes her across binary gender and sexuality boundaries. She learns and teaches lessons about a variety of types of dis-crimination, yet she always has a safe world of gender equality to which she can retreat and on which she can depend. These are the versions of feminism that we see the series as providing for its audience.