Carrie The Witch Crucible

Stephen King's Carrie the Witch illustrates the cruelty of school bullying through the tragic experiences of Carrie White, an introverted and ordinary girl, at school and at home. Carrie's own weak character, coupled with her mother, Margaret White, who is obsessed with her twisted religious beliefs, further conditions her to be bullied at school. The bullying begins when Carrie discovers her first period in the school bathroom, but she panics and asks for help from her classmates, who not only fail to help her but also tease and tease her. Carrie's ignorance stems from her abusive family. Instead of telling Carrie that this is something every girl must know growing up, her mother believes that "God sinned against Eve and punished her with

“Theorists suggest that domestic abuse is a commonly overlooked form of domestic terrorism that coerces women into behaving in clearly detrimental ways and accepting disadvantageous social arrangements by means of institutionalized methods of violence and terror creation. " (SLOAN-LYNCH 779) Growing up in a home environment where her mother, Margaret White, had a distorted religious outlook, Carrie was often controlled and abused by her mother. "The interior of the Whites' home is replete with doorways, arches, windows, mirrors so that its inhabitants are consistently caught within numerous frames, which impart to the house a definite prison-like atmosphere."(Ehlers 36) The environment in which one life is the greatest change to one's character, and it is evident through the people around Carrie that Carrie's more mental than ten years later, her mother pushes her daughter into the abyss once again because of her fear of getting her first period. From the very beginning, Margaret believed that her daughter was a sin and should be killed at birth. To her, "pregnancy" is the "sin" of sexual intercourse. But it was not that she did not love Carrie, only that her faith became an incomprehensible dogma that caused harm to her daughter, and whenever Carrie upset her she would lock her in a window filled with religious icons. Carrie would stay in there for a long time until her mother's "prayer for forgiveness" was over. Carrie faces the oppression of her mother and her classmates, and her psychic powers slowly emerge, gradually worsening so that she becomes