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Comparison Of Freedom In Rosemary's Baby And The Stepford Wives

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Individual aspirations can lead to loss of independence and freedom. Independence and freedom can be lost in many different ways, in these two novels however it is very similar how the characters independence and freedom is lost. In Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives personal aspirations can lead to loss of independence and freedom. The ways that the characters freedom and independence is taken away from them is through physical, social, and mental ways. Characters are willing to sacrifice loved ones in order to achieve what they desire. Ones aspiration for something can be so strong that they will go to extreme lengths to make sure that this aspiration is met. Characters from both novels lose their freedom and indepence physically from others aspiration. An example of this is in Rosemary’s Baby during a satanic ritual on Rosemary Minnie and Guy have a conversation in which they say: …show more content…

She’s like dead. Now sing” (Levin, 88) The reason Rosemary cannot hear is because she has been given a sedated chocolate from the cult that gives this effect. Rosemary can no longer make her own choices because this sedated chocolate has such an affect on her body. As the cult says to sing they mean they will now start their ritual on Rosemary as they impregnate her with the child of Satan. Another example of physical loss of independence and freedom in Rosemary’s Baby is when in a satanic ritual that is being preformed Guy sexually assaults Rosemary. “Guy had taken her without her

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