Week 5: Witches

A witch is a symbol of female empowerment and connection to nature. The character in Aunt Maria not only has power but she has a strong and manipulative personality to go with it. She has her own agenda which she doesn’t reveal to others until later. Personification of male seduction is a common theme with witches and there’s a sexual context; power seems to be ubiquitous to sexual attraction. Aunt Maria also believes she was right despite what she’d done, I think this speaks to the belief of women in power; there is a stubbornness. The power struggle is between male and female, they balance this out by the brother and sister team in order to demonstrate that can be an equilibrium.