Themes and Ideas (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Isolation, ritual, female empowerment, moral complexity

Protected space created by rituals with buried talismans

Belief symbolic actions can influence reality

Villagers persecute sisters but also sustain them

Merricat (not Constance)

Patriarchal values and financial greed

Fortress of female power

Guilty complicity/tribute from villagers

Merricat (first-person)

Turreted castle