As a child I envisioned witches as scary old ladies with big noses covered in warts and green skin, who fly off into their darkness on their broomsticks while their cackling laughter fades away. I probably got this image from the wizard of oz which was my first encounter with a witch. So in my mind all witches are these gruesome old ladies, but in The American Horror Story: The Coven the witch takes on a much different form.
The first thing I want to point out is that not all the girls/women in the coven are exactly the same. What I mean by that is that the traditional image of the witch is this evil hunchbacked woman with a black pointy hat and thats just how they all are. An example of this is an episode of Dr. Who, The Shakespeare Code, where the doctor (David Tennant) takes his companion Martha to London 1599 where they meet William Shakespeare and then discover a group of witches plotting to end the world. And the witches are these terribly ugly women. In American Horror story we have a coven of women who come from all over, yes they are mostly white women but then we also have a black girl and a girl with down syndrome. So the witch is no longer an easily identifiable supernatural creature, now she's just your average girl, your neighbor could be a witch and you'd have no idea. What I think that is saying is that "evil" can come from someone completely unexpected, which makes it that much worse.
Another thing I want to point out about The Coven is the character who's name I can't remember but she has a certain power that is specific to her where she accidentally kills whoever she has sex with or something like that, and the very first episode opens with her and her boyfriend getting it on and all of the sudden he starts convulsing and bleeding from the eyes or some weird shit I don't remember exactly, but he dies. So there's definitely some sort of statement here involving sexual deviancy. But then we have another situation where she's at a party with another one of her witch house mates (played by Emma Roberts) and her friend gets drugged and raped by some frat boys. After this happens in a fit of rage Emma Roberts uses her witch powers to flip the bus that her rapist is in and he ends up in a coma. While he's in the hospital the witch with the deadly vagina rapes him while he's in a coma and he dies. So we have an ironic situation where a rapist is killed by a female who raped him, a punishment that fits the crime?
So to sum up my ramblings, the modern day witch is this feminist statement, we have a group of women who are young and super caddy to each other but then discover by the end of the season that they are better witches when they settle their differences. The witches in AHS make the statement that women can achieve more when they aren't fighting over boys.
P.S. I'm not in any way trying to say that a female taking sexual advantage a comatose man is an act of feminism.
The first thing I want to point out is that not all the girls/women in the coven are exactly the same. What I mean by that is that the traditional image of the witch is this evil hunchbacked woman with a black pointy hat and thats just how they all are. An example of this is an episode of Dr. Who, The Shakespeare Code, where the doctor (David Tennant) takes his companion Martha to London 1599 where they meet William Shakespeare and then discover a group of witches plotting to end the world. And the witches are these terribly ugly women. In American Horror story we have a coven of women who come from all over, yes they are mostly white women but then we also have a black girl and a girl with down syndrome. So the witch is no longer an easily identifiable supernatural creature, now she's just your average girl, your neighbor could be a witch and you'd have no idea. What I think that is saying is that "evil" can come from someone completely unexpected, which makes it that much worse.
Another thing I want to point out about The Coven is the character who's name I can't remember but she has a certain power that is specific to her where she accidentally kills whoever she has sex with or something like that, and the very first episode opens with her and her boyfriend getting it on and all of the sudden he starts convulsing and bleeding from the eyes or some weird shit I don't remember exactly, but he dies. So there's definitely some sort of statement here involving sexual deviancy. But then we have another situation where she's at a party with another one of her witch house mates (played by Emma Roberts) and her friend gets drugged and raped by some frat boys. After this happens in a fit of rage Emma Roberts uses her witch powers to flip the bus that her rapist is in and he ends up in a coma. While he's in the hospital the witch with the deadly vagina rapes him while he's in a coma and he dies. So we have an ironic situation where a rapist is killed by a female who raped him, a punishment that fits the crime?
So to sum up my ramblings, the modern day witch is this feminist statement, we have a group of women who are young and super caddy to each other but then discover by the end of the season that they are better witches when they settle their differences. The witches in AHS make the statement that women can achieve more when they aren't fighting over boys.
P.S. I'm not in any way trying to say that a female taking sexual advantage a comatose man is an act of feminism.
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