Faculty of Design

Illustration

Allison Wallace

The Beacon

The Beacon is a parallel of the movie The Lighthouse and is the encompassing piece of this series. Using the movie’s plot and themes as a plot device to display how femininity is the beacon that could have saved Thomas Wake and Thomas Howard from the original movie. In the movie these two characters go crazy together as they worship the lighthouse on the island they are trapped on. The Lighthouse is almost like a higher power or religious figure that the two men constantly idolize and fight over. They bounce back and forth between showing each other affection before getting into a violent altercation, and talk about how the men from their pasts have affected them negatively; they make each other worse and worse. Perhaps a woman on board could have kept them in check.