Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary’s Baby is a movie directed by Roman Polanski on 1968. It’s the story of a young girl who is married with Guy Woodhouse. They changed to a new apartment and they want to have a baby. She got pregnant and a lot of strange things start to happen to Rosemary and Guy and with their neighbors: the Castevet. They are an old couple which made strange things. At the end Rosemary’s baby was a baby from the devil.

According to Freytag´s Pyramid we have the story divided into these parts:

• Exposition: Ro and Guy visited an apartment and they bought it. After they made some arrangements to the department the Woodhouse start to live there. Guy is a theater actor and he has done some TV and Rosemary wants to have a baby. Theresa Gionoffrio and Hutch, who are friends of the Woodhouse, are introduced.

This is the exposition because all the characters are presented to us and we can know where they are in life.

• Inciting Incident: Theresa Gionoffrio suicides and the Woodhouse met the Castevet. Both couples start to be friends and they spend some time together, despite; Woodhouse didn’t want to establish contact with them.

Minnie gave Rosemary a necklace made of an herb called tannis. Suddenly everything goes well for Guy.

This is the inciting incident because with the death of Theresa the Wood house met the Castevet. Maybe they will meet some other way, but when somebody dies unexpectedly the story turns mysterious.

• Rising Action: Minnie Castevet gave a chocolate mousse to the Woodhouse and after eating it Rosemary fainted. Then she had a strange dream in which she had sex with devil. Next morning she realized that Guy violated her.

This is the rising action because in this part the devil had sex with Rosemary. This is the action that allows the baby to exist.

• Complication: Rosemary had an awful pain and she scared because she didn’t know if there was something bad with the baby inside her stomach.

This is the complication because the story is about a baby. That’s why the title of the movie. The pains that Rosemary feels are strange and mysterious because the baby maybe will die and maybe the story won’t be about Rosemary’s baby.

• Falling Action: With Hutch’s help Rosemary resolved an anagram. She realized that Castevet are bad people who participated in demoniac rituals. She suspects that Guy is involved too. Castevet are involved in witchcraft.

This is the falling action because in this part of the movie Rosemary stars to think for the very first time and realizes that she really doesn’t know anything about the people with she lives. And the spectator confirms all the doubts that the story created on them and allows to question their self who is Guy in reality. Also in this part of the movie the story takes a new direction.

• Turning Point: Rosemary decided not to believe in anybody, neither Guy. Hence she goes with Dr. Hill. She got strength enough to decide by herself the moves that she will do to protect her baby.

This is the turning point because Rosemary takes the initiative by herself and decided to do her own things alone without trust in nobody.

• Reversal: Rosemary told Dr. Hill all what she knows about the Castevet and all the bad things that they had been doing against Rosemary and her baby. He told her that he is going to help her. Dr. Hill betrayed Rosemary and he called to all the members of the demoniac congregation and she is delivered to them.

This is the reversal because everything seemed to go perfectly good and suddenly Rosemary is betrayed by someone she could thrust.

• Moment of Last Suspense: After she was betrayed the congregation reunited and took care of the birth and Rosemary don’t know what is going to happen with her baby.

This is the moment of last suspense because as spectator you don’t know what is going to happen to Rosemary’s baby. You don’t know if the congregation will kill the baby or the will kill Rosemary or both. Also you don’t know if the baby will born.

• Catastrophe: Rosemary’s baby is taken away from her and everybody told her that he is dead. When Rosemary knew the truth about the baby she became sad.

This is the catastrophe because Rosemary knows the truth about everything. She knew who the baby is in reality. Rosemary also knows what the purpose of the baby is. It’s also the catastrophe because when everybody told to Rosemary that the baby died, as spectator you just don’t know what to think.

• Climax - Resolution: Rosemary resigned and accepted the reality. So, she decided to be the mother of devil’s son.

This is the climax and also the resolution because Rosemary doubted about what to do know now she knows the truth. And this is the main purpose of the action. One way or another, Rosemary follows the desire to be a mother no matter how or who the baby is. As spectator at the moment you don’t know what will be the decision that Rosemary will take after this surprising revelation to her.

And is the resolution because she accepted who is she for the kid and obviously the story ends.