Burn the witch - narrative and context
- Equilibrium (normal)- the villiage is wholesome and they are doing normal things like gardening and painting
- Inciting incident/disruption- a man (outsider) changes things and makes the village go weird and creepy
- Ending- its a circle/loop as the bird at the start reappears and the outsider manages to escape the burning witchman to show he is still alive- extra scene because it fades out.
Climax/connotations to death- hanging, red crossws, cow, seesaw(used to dump witches), poison
Demagogue- a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational arguments. (donald trump and UKIP)
- Witches in England- king james- witch trials. Anyone could blame anyone.
- Paranoid demagoguery- trumpton might embody the vision of UKIP, a party that found success opposing immigration and the EU.
- Whether the country is Germany, sweden, denmark etc, anti-populists are resurgent throughout europe
- within BTW, radiohead used pastoral english imagery to confront a global phenomenom and inject their voice
Clues in BTW
- only 2 characters with a mouth- lack of communication- they are in trouble
- Blonde girl= germany
- x= plague- stay away
- dead animal- banquet
- the noose- flowers on it
- seesaw (witches death)- children playing on it
- little model town- reflection of them- looking closely
- tumpton = trump
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