Depression In The Movie Carrie

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The movie Carrie is full of both scenes of Awakenings due to experiences and forms of depression due to external conflicts. In one example an awakening Carrie has in the iconic film is when she gets her first period in the shower at her high school. Being a teenage girl and experiencing this for the first time would be frightening all together. This would be classified as an awakening due to this being her first period meaning that she is “awakened” into womanhood. After this incident, she is bullied by her other high school classmates, which makes her become depressed. As the movie progresses Carrie becomes increasingly depressed due to being scrutinized not only by her fellow peers, but by her psychotic and religious extremist mother. Carrie’s

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