I promise iāll shut up about Crimson Peak, but iām going crazy about this movie and i analyze everything, seriously guys, this is going to be a wild ride. And i donāt know if someone already thought about it or if itās just in my head, but there are actually two butterflies in the story, the yellow, that represents Edith and thereās also the blue butterfly. Okay, letās talk about the movie a bit, in the scene where Edith and Lucille are talking about the butterflies and Lucille says that they take the heat from the Sun and when itās gone, they die. Then she speaks about the black moths and how they survive in the dark and the cold. We soon realize that Lucille is the black moth.
Moving on, when Thomas is giving his goodbye speech, he says that in America he found warmth and that in there the future seemed to mean something. I think he was being genuinely honest. After that, when heās trying to break Edithās heart, he asks her what she dreams of, a pure soul to be redeemed, a wounded bird she could heal. Later on the movie we understand that he was that dream.
Then, when they are already in Allerdale Hall, and Edith says the tea was bitter, Thomas replies bitterly (no pun intended) that nothing gentle ever grew in these lands, that they needed to be bitter not to get eaten, now remember that Lucille said that the moths feed on butterflies. Keep that in mind.
One of the nights, when Edith sees the ghost of Beatrice Sharpe, the ghost says that his blood would be on her hands. Whose blood? Thomas? Was Beatrice trying to warn that her son was in danger? Why would she do that, if she considered both her children to be monsters? My best guess, is that Lucille lied when she said that the last thing their mother said to them was that they were monsters. After all, why would Beatrice warn Edith that Thomas was in danger then? Mystery.
When they are in the bedroom in the post office, Thomas says he likes Edithās hero (from her book), and he asks her if heāll live in the end, she says that thatās entirely up to him, that characters have choices, then Thomas says sadly āchoices?ā. In that moment we get a glimpse that deep down he feels like he has no choice, that he never even considered the possibility that he could choose what to do with his life and thatās when we realize that in a very young age he lost his free-will, he lost his power to choose where to go, what to do and who to love. After that, they make love and everything around them looks warm, like a sunny place, perfect for butterflies to grow.
Later on, we see Thomas shyly trying to raise his voice against Lucille, like in the scene when he says āCan i have a moment alone with my wife?ā and tells Edith to stop drinking the tea. And in the moment Lucille says that he couldnāt leave her, and he says to her āi canāt i canātā, thereās anger in his eyes and the feeling that heās really trapped there.
The big reveal scene is completely the opposite of the other intimate scene, itās cold and dark, perfect environment for the moths. - Just adding, iām not gonna get in the discussion of if itās abuse or not, iām just stating what i understood from the movie and from the characters - Another important difference from the two scenes is Thomasā behavior, with Edith he was smiling and happy, and with Lucille, when he comes back to himself, his face looks lost, as if he was numb, as if he was empty. With Edith he was aware of everything, he had his eyes wide open, but with Lucille, it was like he was on autopilot.
Finally, when Lucille is talking about the baby, thereās another symbolism. It was born imperfect, now imagine the breeding between a moth and a butterfly, itās just wrong, it doesnāt work, it will born faulty. Thomas and Lucille were not the same kind, thatās why he longed for something else, he secretly longed for warmth, while Lucille was stronger in the cold and dark. Maybe thatās even why Thomas gave in to her so easily when they were children, because he felt weak away from the sun, because in the end he spent his whole life in the hands of his predator, until the very moment she kills him. And that is the tragedy of it, Thomas tried to spread his wings, but they were broken from all those years heās been on Lucilleās grip. Going deeper, essentially Thomas and Edith were meant to be, they were the same, but she was stronger because she was raised in the light, she was loved, she knew warmth. But Thomas was born in a cruel and cold place, thatās why he was fragile, thatās why he had no strength to fight against Lucille, so in the very end he just allows her to kill him. Thomas was the blue butterfly and Lucille was the black moth that devoured his innocence, his free will, his self-esteem and later his life. But Edithās love set him free. ~
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