Rosemary's Baby Essay

Superior Essays
Manuel Amado
Professor Caroline Gelmi
ENL 200-21
Final Essay
Marriage in Rosemary’s Baby What is marriage? Marriage is when two people have been with each other for a period of time and feel they are the ones that only death will do them apart, and feel that they can honestly count on each other no matter what. Married couples can either send a positive or a negative picture of the meaning of what marriage is to those whom are not married or do not know what is the meaning. In movies especially because it is more influential, for example in the movie Rosemary’s baby, the marriage between Rosemary and Guy. Rosemary’s Baby is a horror movie which is scary, many evil events happens in the movie but the scariest thing is Rosemary’s and Guy’s marriage.
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Guy is trying to apologize for the way his been acting, and submissively tells her: “Even if I'm Mr. Yamaha for the rest of my days, I'm gonna stop giving you the short end of the stick.” And then he proposes, “Let's have a baby, all right?” something that Rosemary wants more than anything but so does the coven. Guy even suggests which days they should start having sex, he circled the days on the calendar. This propose to have a baby is the coven’s idea, because only rosemary would know when she is ovulating, it seems that the coven calculated it for him. A candlelight dinner with soft music playing, a cozy fire in the fireplace, all to serve as a start for an evening of love-making. But Rosemary's surprise Minnie briefly stops by, to bring them dessert for each of them. After a few scoops of the dessert, Rosemary taste as she puts it a “chalky under taste” and she stops eating it, but Guy insists that she eats, for her to be neighborly and orders her to eat it because “The old bat slaved all day” that’s like talking to a child that does not want to eat something it does not like. And he adds “Now eat it!...It's delicious,” so Rosemary does what every child would do while their parents are not looking, she scoops out the remaining of the dessert on her napkin to throw it the trash while guy is changing the …show more content…
The night she’s been waiting for her to make her baby, but there was something in that dessert, she gets all dizzy, woozy feels like she is passing out. Guy puts Rosemary to bed, as she lays on her bed, she imagines being on a mattress floating on the ocean and these weird dreams with the pope JFK etc.… Guy starts to undress Rosemary completely until she is completely naked, and carries her somewhere where all coven’s members are awaiting. Naked and surrounding Rosemary as she lays on a mattress, chanting in a weird language. To Rosemary in her dream Guy begins making love to her, but he transforms into a beast-like. Guy is not making love to her, he is literally raping her because she is unconscious and tied up. Basically this beast-like, resembles the devil, Guy is the ‘devil.’ This is the husband Guy has become to Rosemary, a cocky and rapist who betrayed his wife, and sold her body, womb, and emotional well-being for fame and glory. The marriage between Guy and Rosemary is a horror. A husband that rapes his wife and the next day feels proud about it. As he puts it “It was kind of fun in a necrophile sort of way,” that is something only a monster would say to his wife. Rosemary does her job as a wife, she evens tries to shake it off the whole raping situation as if she’s making a big deal out of nothing. But an unbridgeable abyss has now

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