Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-2175012-20160223035656/@comment-2175012-20160223132551

Oh, alright. Well, first things first, I don't believe that she qualifies. The film is about a Puritan family who are kicked out of the village plantation, and they set up home on the edge of a forest. The Witch makes her debut by abducting Samuel, Thomasin's (the protagonist) baby brother, kills him, and then grinds him up, makes him into an ointment, and rubs it on herself. She also lures Caleb, Thomasin's other brother, to her by appearing as a beautiful woman. Lastly, she's shown terrifying Thomasin and the twins by drinking blood from the goats before kidnapping the two twins.

See the problem? The Witch hardly appears in the film despite it being named after her. Because of this, she barely has a character to speak of. Besides cackling wickedly as she drank from the goats, she has no personality whatsoever. In addition to this, she doesn't have any clear motivations, besides her murdering Samuel. The film is really about the family's descent into religious madness by accusing each other of being witches. The Witch herself doesn't have too much of an impact on the film besides being the catalyst for the family's despair. Towards the end, Thomasin actually joins a coven of witches after signing her name in the Devil's book, but she only did so, because her entire family was dead. It could be that the Witch was in a similar situation to her, but this is only speculation.