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**SPOILER** : The Ending
posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on February 19, 2017 at 9:25 PM
Why did Thomasin sign away her soul?
Reply by homergreg
on February 26, 2017 at 9:35 AM
I could be wrong, but I think it was because she could be part of a "community" again.
Reply by jann
on February 27, 2017 at 10:22 PM
Because she was fed up with being a good girl. I mean, look what it got her.
Reply by SaltyGirl
on February 27, 2017 at 10:57 PM
She was stuck out in the sticks alone with her starving, religious zealot family and being the eldest was also saddled with the responsibility of cooking, cleaning and caring for her younger siblings.
The devil offered her a way out with the allure of food, freedom, seeing the world and power.
Reply by frozenlantern
on April 7, 2017 at 12:50 AM
That's the most logical and practical thing to do.
Reply by Renovatio
on April 7, 2017 at 6:09 AM
It's an allegory for coming of age and embracing one's sexuality... she has basically become a woman and has retaken ownership of her body and embraced the pleasures and risks of adulthood...
Reply by A to Z
on April 7, 2017 at 5:43 PM
how is retaking ownership of your body an allegory for coming of age? That's kind of weird.
Reply by Renovatio
on April 7, 2017 at 6:19 PM
she realises that her body is hers to do what she wants with and no longer subject to strict parental control. she has come of age. has become an adult... a woman, not just a girl...
Reply by chilone
on September 25, 2018 at 10:56 AM
Because she was a dumb ass. She had basic, vivid conformation that she was being courted by the devil and knew she would be damned (unless she actually was saved but she lived under the doctrine of condemnation so even if she wasn't damned, she'd still believe she was), yet she did it anyway.
Reply by OddRob
on September 26, 2018 at 2:39 AM
She signed her soul away for one reason, survival. She wasnt going to make it back to the community alive, she would be killed by the natives or the witches or the elements. Not to mention if she did make it back they would probably just blame everything on her and kill her as a witch anyway. So she basically picked life over death.
Reply by volkstraum
on October 13, 2018 at 5:03 PM
hysteria/shock at what had just happened to her family
Reply by VobIdem
on June 26, 2021 at 3:25 PM
Because Satan corrupted her step by step until she was left with no other option.
Everyone she relied on for her survival was gone, including heaven after she committed murder. Going back to the colony was a long journey, and there was no guarantee they'd be sympathetic to a sinful outcast.
Satan offered her an alternative to a slow starvation, and by that point, she was too far gone to resist his temptation