In the third episode of The White Lotus' Thailand-set season, the Ratliff family discusses matriarch Victoria's troubling dream of a tsunami. Their conversation reflects broader themes of the episode, titled "The Meaning of Dreams," exploring the collective unconscious and symbols like fire and snakes. The unsettling imagery culminates in a harrowing scene featuring a snake attack, which, alongside the exploration of good vs. evil, emphasizes the show's theme of Western characters grappling with Eastern spirituality. The episode's tension builds through both psychological and literal confrontations with these symbols.
Fires, tsunamis, the workings of the unconscious mind—these elements keep resurfacing across the show's multiple storylines.
This week's most pervasive and symbolically freighted image is that of the snake, raising ideas that dovetail with the season's overarching theme of Western characters encountering Eastern spirituality.
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