Word: agnese
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Karin, on the other hand, cries out silently. Her soul is mortified. She has questioned the meanings behind her surroundings and come up with negative answers, and this has--perhaps temporarily--obstructed her compassion. After Agnes's death, she recalls a dinner with her husband. Enduring cold, light-weight badinage...
THE FINAL first person episode is not a memory but a dream. Anna, who has been Agnes's most constant companion, hears weeping in the night; at first, it seems a baby's howl, but her own child has long been dead. She runs to Agnes's room; outside, Karin...
The entire film is based on the family's tissue of lies. Prior to Anna's dream, Karin and Maria attempt to make a sisterly connection. Maria instigates it; Karin denies, reading her hollow character with a sad and insightful malice. Both finally collapse into each other's arms; but...
Aside from lovers and husbands, the only visitor to the house is the minister who comes to pray at Agnes's deathbed. Bergman admires the minister's recognition of the need for moral faith, and his sincerity and fervor; but his unfolding of a stern Calvinist credo becomes pathetic, particularly...
Each of these characters represents a mode of action which is insufficient for sustenance in a world where simple faith has become impossible. Agnes is strangled by a faith which permits her no earthly satisfactions; Anna is supported by it, but Anna can exist only by serving others as a...