Essays on Lilith

Introduction

In the 1996 movie entitled, The Craft, it portrays four troubled high school women who holds the power to control their own realities and the people around them by the practice of black magic. Each woman is having some negative issue within their own life, including low self-esteem, trouble fitting in with other classmates, lack of family dynamics and poor relationships. These problems temporarily go away when the teenagers all come together to call the four corners of East, West, South and North to their deity that will grant them unlimited power and control. Although the magic ritual worked ...

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Introduction Vampires are mythical creatures that appear in ancient folklores. Most cultures have their own version of the vampire although they share a common characteristic; that is, the lust for human blood. There is no particular gender to the vampire character. Male and female vampires do exists even in ancient literatures, making the vampire one of the most gender neutral characters. The depiction of the female vampire in human culture, however, is an interesting way of looking into the development of women, particularly on how society views women and their social status over the course of time. ...

In 1964, a film about mental illness patients who live in a mental ward was produced. The movie named Lilith was about a woman who was a patient in the asylum. Her name was Lilith and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. A man named Vincent had returned from war and wanted to have a position that was important in his hometown. He interviewed and got hired for an occupational position at the mental institution where Lilith was staying. Lilith has a belief that she is to use her body for sexual favors. She is happy, though and interacts with ...