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Unearth the Horror: Carrie Book Review & Analysis
The novel is not long, but after I finished reading it, my hands could not stop shaking. I do not know why either. The novel takes school bullying and female revenge as its themes. Under the setting of “psychic actuation” superpowers, Carrie completes her rebellion against her mother and revenge against her glamorous and stupid classmates. The entire town of Chamberlain is almost destroyed by fire, Water flow, and current.
While reading the novel, I couldn’t help but think about how shocking the movie scenes must be. The multi-angle narration technique makes people know from the beginning that this story will lead to an irreversible ending of destruction, but the delicate psychological description makes people unable to help but follow Carrie, who has been depressed and bullied for many years, to hope for the moment before the explosion. A brief moment of anxious yet sweet tranquility.
The word “blood” throughout the text has multiple symbolic meanings.
The opening chapter shows Carrie having menstruation without knowing it, and all her female classmates watch and laugh at her menstrual blood flowing out in the shower room. That was the first time she realized her own changes and power — in her mother’s view, it was an evil lust, an uncontrolled devil, and an existence that offended the holiness of God. This…
