Feminist Ethics and Magical Feminism in The Witch, by Robert Eggers, and Gretel & Hansel, by Oz Perkins
Based on notions of feminist ethics and magical feminism, we illustrate the initiation into witchcraft as a shift to a new morality for the teenage protagonists of the films The Witch (2017), by Robert Eggers, and Gretel & Hansel (2020), by Oz Perkins. These folk horrors subvert the characte...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | Letras & letras (Online) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/71369 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/71369 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Feminist ethics Magical feminism Cinema The Witch Gretel & Hansel Ética feminista Feminismo mágico A bruxa Maria e João |
| Sumario: | Based on notions of feminist ethics and magical feminism, we illustrate the initiation into witchcraft as a shift to a new morality for the teenage protagonists of the films The Witch (2017), by Robert Eggers, and Gretel & Hansel (2020), by Oz Perkins. These folk horrors subvert the character of the witch of the woods by giving her a coming-of-age background story, all the while keeping some key-elements from traditional fairy tales. We suggest that the leading girls undergo a moral transformation: in becoming witches, they cease their roles as caregivers, abandoning a care-oriented ethics that was imposed on them and embracing a new hedonistic, egotistical one. |
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