Masculinity In Carrie

Brian DePalma adapted Stephen King’s novel Carrie to inspire his horror film Carrie. Carrie is about Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) who is a shy and timid teenager. She is the daughter of Margaret White (Piper Laurie) who is a religious fanatic. Carrie, born with secret telekinetic powers, uses her power to exact revenge on her high school bullies who humiliated her when she had her period at the age of seventeen; Carrie’s menstruation represent her being late in becoming a women. The supernatural film is comprised of affective male characters to support the dramatic female character. The male characters have miniature roles; however, the male characters create tremendous effect upon the female’s actions. Carrie presents male characters, such

Billy is Chris’s boyfriend who is older than most teenagers in the film. Billy is the antithesis of Tommy and Chris is the antithesis of Sue. Chris becomes very jealous and angry when she got expelled from school, which affect her from going to the prom. Billy gives her a plan to humiliate the prom queen by pouring animal’s blood on her. Before the prom begin, Chris forced Billy to do her dirty work: drives her to kill the pig and rigs the bucket. They approaches prom as an abominable couple because they are about to destroyed the prom. Male characters can provide malevolent influence for female

Tommy and Carrie were announced the prom king and queen. A girl brought a bouquet to Carrie and quickly exit the stage. It was Carrie’s moment to shine; she smiles and see her classmates applauds her. All of a sudden, pig’s blood spills directly on Carrie from above the stage. Everyone in the building starts to laugh at Carrie. Tommy was half covered with blood and he yelled “what the hell?” to show how he tries to protect Carrie from humiliation as he promised Sue (Carrie). Carrie could not hold her ground and watch other humiliate her. Then, the empty bucket hit Tommy in the head and caused his death. Carrie saw Chris and her boyfriend, Billy Nolan, ran out the building; Carrie becomes angry. She becomes powerful as she releases her anger to the bullies. She locks down the building, throws people into the electrocuted water with her telekinesis, and sets the building on fire. The film clearly stated the important and unimportant male roles when Tommy tries to protect Carrie at the prom, but dies in a short, tragic incident, which leaves the female character to protect herself from the bullies. Carrie became a new person at the prom, and the devastation she wreaks is a result of feminine power. Male and female characters such as, Carrie’s classmates, can cause the female characters, Carrie, to trigger their self-evil. The film illustrates how