“Last night you made a confession ‘twould make a saint swear”: Film Dialogue as an Articulator of Fear in Robert Eggers’ The Witch and The Lighthouse

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Literary Studies (MA)

Lange, Maarten de (2022)

“Last night you made a confession ‘twould make a saint swear”: Film Dialogue as an Articulator of Fear in Robert Eggers’ The Witch and The Lighthouse

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

This thesis examines the potency of film dialogue as an articulator of fear in Robert Eggers’ The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019). Using extant studies on film dialogue as its groundwork, this thesis employs a close reading of the dialogue in Robert Eggers’ films. Ultimately, it argues that Eggers’ films utilise dialogue in order to articulate their contextual fears, rather than the visual language that predominates the horror genre.