Rosemary's Baby, Citizen Kane: Film Papers

In the film, Rosemary makes the transition from innocent young woman to experience young adult who learns the horrifying knowledge that her husband is culpable in rendering the services of her womb to their Satan worshipping neighbors. In this manner, we see a Christian parallel in Polanski's interpretation of innocence and experience. A survivor of WWII Polanski knows firsthand the loss of innocence from gaining experience of an often horrifying world. Similarly, like Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge, Rosemary's experience leads to such knowledge of a horrifying world of sin and bet

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Movement, it is no coincidence that Rosemary is an innocent young woman devoted to and willing to sacrifice for the man she loves. That he betrays her and exploits her sexually to advance his own career is a comment by Polanski that innocence is also under threat from the experience or knowledge of evil in society as much as it is from the epic battle between God and Satan. As Tim Grierson (2008) comments on this aspect of the film, "Rosemary's Baby forces us to see the world as it appears from one legitimately frightened woman's perspective: claustrophobic, intimidating, and wearing a smile on its face when, really, it's out to get you" (p. 1). This description of Rosemary's perspective can just as readily apply to women determined to success in spite of the patriarchy as much as it does the action or events of the film. By the time Rosemary figures out the full experience in which she is involved, she is trapped. There is nobody to help her, despite her screams for help. She accuses everyone of lying when they tell her that her baby died in childbirth. Her husband is still diabolical and his ambition still comes first. He maintains she has gone temporarily insane from the pregnancy, and he urges her to think of
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