The texts I analyze, Robert Egger’s 2016 film The Witch, L. Worry cultivates fear, and both untamable nature and women have been feared, since together they threaten masculine identity and the structure of American patriarchy. This male subjectivity has often left men, from generation to generation, in a continuous existential angst over their position within their home, community, and nation. Throughout American history, men have worked to maintain certain expectations for what it means to be an American man. Though she represents many things, this thesis examines the relationship between witches and nature-specifically, the discarded parts of nature. The figure of the witch is forever ingrained in American history and culture, and her powers still hold much strength today as she manages to linger and scratch at the American psyche.
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