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Elizabeth wakes up in a dank, dark cell. She looks around, wandering where she is. She tries to stand but realizes she is chained to a cold, damp wall.)
Elizabeth: Where am I? How did I get here?
( She thinks hard and tries to remember. When she can't remember, she slumps against the damp wall.)
Elizabeth: I can't remember! I don't know what I did! How long have I been here?
(She gets up and tries to pace the cell but the chains stop her and she falls.)
Elizabeth: Do I have to be chained to this wall?
(After a few hours, the sun starts setting and she hears a whisper, almost inaudible.)
Elizabeth: What is that?
(listening closely, making sure to stop her breathing so she can hear.)
Mercy: Pst! Elizabeth! Over here! (She puts
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Please, I didn't!
(The man returns with a plate of water and stale bread.)
Man: Here, eat this, witch! You'll need it for tomorrow!
(He put the plate in the center of the cell.)
Man: You'll have to reach it first. (He sneers and leaves the cell, slamming the cell door shut and glaring at the “witch”.)
Elizabeth: Why are you so cruel? I never did harm to you or anyone!
( She looks at the food and tries to scoot towards, but the chains stop her. She lays down, trying to scoot the plate towards her with her boot, but fails. She sobs and looks at the plate again. It was moving towards her on its own!)
Elizabeth: What! No, no, no! Please, stop!
(The man returns, hearing the ruckus that Elizabeth was causing.)
Man: What is going on here?!
(He sees the plate moving on its own and runs to get the witch judge. When they return, the judge sees nothing.)
Man: Sir, the plate was moving on its own; she was making it move! I saw it with my own eyes, I did!
(Another man enters.) I saw it too! She made it move!
Elizabeth: How do you know? You weren't even here!
Witch Judge: Silence, witch! You have no right to speak! (He turns to the man.) What about the other witch? She's probably using magicks
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As of now, you'll never stop witchcraft! This town and everywhere else is cursed! Ha! Witchcraft will never end!
Witch Judge: Hurry, men! Get her! Stop the witch!
( The other group of men ran to her. One held out the chains while the others tackled Mercy. After she was chained, they carried her to the execution grounds along with Elizabeth, who was already tied to the pyre.)
Witch Judge: Hurry, men! Put her up there quickly! We must rid ourselves of these evil witches and and their evil magicks! Tie her to the pyre and set it on fire!
(After both accused witches were tied to pyre, the men backed up, letting the witch judge say his speech.)
Witch Judge: Ladies and gentlemen, here we have to powerful witches! Today, they shall be rid of once and for all! We can no longer have them working with the devil, bringing evil to our town and country! Look at them; they don't look like witches, do they? Well they are! They cast a spell on the chains and made it drag a good friend of mine away! Now, where is he now? Nowhere to be seen! The witches killed him with their black magicks! I saw it! Now we must burn them along with their evil magicks! Maybe that will show the devil we're willing to fight his evil
[Elizabeth stared faintly at Hale, waiting for him to leave, Hale sorrowfully said his goodbyes and
“Just weeping. I can still hear her weeping now sometimes. I know the exact sound of it, like a note you hear or a song that keeps spinning around in your head and you can’t forget it.”
“Pardon me?” Miss Allen asked, finally putting an end to the creepy ass moment of deadly silence. The perplexed expression on her face grew more confound with each passing second, but the gentleness in her eyes remained the same.
The magistrates, in the common practice of the time, asked the same questions of each suspect over and over: Were they witches? Had they seen Satan? How, if they were not witches, did they explain the contortions seemingly caused by their presence? The style and form of the questions indicates that the magistrates thought the women guilty
Dim light comes up on a the jail cell. Three women are sitting around the cell. Martha Corey is sitting in the floor leaning against the wall looking down trodden. Rebecca nurse is sitting on the bed resting her back against the wall looking peaceful. While Elizabeth Proctor is standing leaning against the wall looking out the window with almost no expression on her face. All three of the women are deep in thought. A wail of pain and loneliness from one of the other cells jolts them back to reality. Slumping back against the wall Martha begins to sigh.
It is 1693 and it has been 4 months after the death of John Proctor. It’s a cold morning with clouds of warmth forming from Elizabeth Proctors mouth, a pregnant woman soon expecting. She sits in a grey and rotten prison cell, chained to the wall, waiting for something she knows nothing of. Two women sit in the corners of the cell, one raving mad, the other follows. Tituba and Sarah Good yell jumbled words, praising the devil between every sentence. Elizabeth sits silent and reluctant. Sarah Good, stares at the ceiling as if the devil reaches for her. Elizabeth feels an aching pain in her stomach like she has many times before and she reaches the ground.
with haste. She received a letter on their departure and read it with Lizzy, “This is from Caroline Bingley;
In the book Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, Rosalyn Schanzer describes what happens all because two girls fell ill. When Betty and Abigail started having fits, a doctor diagnosed them as bewitched. Almost immediately they accused the first witch, their slave Tituba. From there all the accusations started pouring out, Ann Putnam Jr., a friend of Betty and Abigail, became “afflicted” as well as multiple others, and soon the jails were overflowing. The first “witch” was hanged on June 10, and the last “witches/wizards” were hanged on September 22. The most likely reasons for the accusations were a thirst for revenge, boredom, and peer/parental pressure.
Since the beginning of civilization, humans have always wanted a way to explain the unexplained, we invented magical creatures and spirits because it gave us someway to grasp things that made no sense to us. Unexplained occurrences in the world have not always been considered inherently bad, in fact a long time ago people viewed supernatural instances as holy things. They worshipped them, things like the stars and the sun did not make sense to people so they assumed that they were the creation of the gods. As stated by Jasmine W. the ancient laws prohibiting magic really only focused on the effects of the magic rather than the magic itself. If the practice of magic resulted in something bad, then the conjurer would be held responsible but the general
We also see in this scene that the witches have the power to see into
The wretch snickered. "I am a monstrous version of Elizabeth, her child, brought forth by her own hand. She has forsaken me, cast me aside and thus made me miserable! Therefore I have vowed to destroy everything she loves, even sweet and mild Victor, just as she destroyed all happiness for me. Rrrrr!"
Concerned citizens of Salem, if it were a good mornin' I would bid you that, however it is not. This mornin' a grave injustice is looming like the grey clouds before a storm. This morning we will bear witness to yet another brutal and senseless murder of two innocent Christians, Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor. Ladies and gentlemen, for four long months the very court that proposed to protect us from all evil has deceived us and in fact perpetuated the evil doings running rife throughout our fair town. For four long months a prodigious fear has settled itself in our very hearts, a fear of the unknown and a fear of becoming one of the accused. My friends, it must be clear to any truly Christian society that the devil be not among us in the form of witchery or wizardry, but in the manifestation of vengeance! I implore you to take a stand, to band together and to put a stop to this madness before it completely takes hold of Salem and you too are on trial for witchcraft!
What do you think when someone calls someone a witch? What comes to mind? Do you think of the movie, ‘Hocus Pocus’ or do you think of the black pointed hats and the long black, slit ended dresses? What about witchcraft? Does the term “Devil worshiper” ever cross your mind? Do you think of potions and spells? For many, many generations, we have underestimated what the true meaning of a witch and what witchcraft really is. What is the history that hides behind it? Witches and witchcraft have been in our history since the ancient times. There is a little bit more than the ghost stories told on Halloween, the movies shown on TV and dressing up on Halloween.
The witches in Macbeth are very important in the plot and develop certain aspects of the play. They make greater the theatrical experience with images of darkness, thunder and lightning that make Macbeth the tragedy it is. Their actions also add to the play, dancing round the cauldron and chanting ‘Double, double…’. Their appearance as ‘dark hags’ adds mystery to the play.
There was a thousands of people believing that evil Witches existed. They were seen as evil people, primarily women, who devoted their lives to hurting and killing others through black magic and evil sorcery. The Catholic Church the time taught them that Witches did not exist. It was the heresy to say that they were real. For example, the 5th century Synod of St. Patrick who believes that there is a vampire in the world, that is to say, a witch, is real whoever it comes down to reputation upon a living being shall not be received into church until he revokes with his own voice the crime that he has committed. A capitulary from Saxony blamed people in our world on pagan belief systems. If anyone deceived by the Devil, believes after the manner of the Pagans that any women and man. People were actually saying that if you were a witch you ate men. The biggest witch hunts began in many western European countries. The Roman Catholic Church created an imaginary evil religion. People they said that were evil Witches who kidnapped babies, killed and ate their victims.A backlash against women, or a tool of the common people to name scapegoats for spoiled crops, dead livestock or the death of babies and children." Walter Stephens, a professor of Italian studies at JHU proposes a new theory. Religious leaders felt that they had to retain the concepts of both an omnipotent and an all-loving deity. They had to make Witches and demons in order to make them existence of evil in the world.