Ginger Snaps Womanhood

Heart pounding, hands shaking, body quivering; to the public, this may sound like a medical emergency. However, to a teenage girl, it is the non-verbal response to womanhood. Upon the unexpected experience of an adolescence menstruation; life prior to these physical changes was surrounded by Barbie dolls and bedtime stories. In the horror film Ginger Snaps, the protagonist Ginger, encountered womanhood in an atypical manner. Ginger maturing into an adult is comparable to, in some profound physical and psychological process, to becoming a werewolf. Ironically, on the evening of Ginger’s first period, a werewolf violently attacked her; consequently, biting Ginger. Thereafter, within a couple of days, significant changes take place to her physique and demeanor that resemble an adolescence, as well as a werewolf.

After that eventful evening, everything changed for Ginger. She made a dramatic change in the form, appearance, and character of another creature.

Puberty is the most fitting term to compare with how her physical attributes changed. At first the signs were disregarded by her mother as something all young ladies, even she, experiences. Obviously, the audience knows that it is Ginger turning into a werewolf.

What is unusual, and alarming is that as Ginger becomes more of a werewolf, the uncanny similarities to puberty become more evident. Emotionally, Ginger became more hostile and violent, manifesting mood swings. All through the film, we see the evolution of Ginger emotions accompanied by the state of mind to feel more feminine, to have the power to act, speak, or think as one wants without the impediment of others, and even a hopeless desire of adoration from her peers; at this point, her feelings change, and a young woman sprout into a bristly, seething lycanthropy(womanhood). In the same fashion, an adolescence epitomized the same emotional