Urban Legend Bloody Mary

In the girls’ home, Mary has to make a decision on whether she wants to clear her charges or live as a murderer. Stereotypically, girls like Mary face prejudice for actions they may or may not have committed, controversially, Mary acts unlike the other teenagers in her girls’ home trying

In using this aggressive word, he wants Mary to see that she should not lie to him because he is on God’s side. In doing so, he attempts to show Mary that his claims of witchcraft are correct and therefore wants to clean her of her sins.

When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.

Although the surface of the artwork has been fairly damaged by smoke from burning candles and incense, there is still a suggestion of the bright circular halos which had once ‘crowned’ both the Virgin and the child. Cooper relates the symbolism of the circle as “one which expresses archetypal wholeness and totality and therefore divinity” (1982:19). The upper body of Mary appears very large, especially in comparison with the Christ-child, whose body ‘fits’ into her bosom, which is generally associated with comfort. Almost as though she tries to console him concerning his future death (Tansey & Kleiner, 1996: 312).

The Black Mary made Lily think about her life and what could be done to make it better. It made Lily think about the positives and negatives, and that she now had people to relate and connect to.

She confesses to the court that all the speak of bewitchment is a lie made up by the girls because she is afraid to face the wrath of John Proctor. When Mary says “I cannot they’ll turn on me”(Mary Warren 1141) she is referring to the other girls saying they will make up lies so she will be accused of witchcraft. Mary fears getting in trouble with the court and she also fears getting in trouble with John Proctor. After confessing the truth, Mary Warren was turned on by her peers. Fear motivated every single thing Mary Warren did in The

she is being accused of witchcraft. Mary has come to her senses to portray the truth, “I

gives the court reason to believe that Mary is a witch. Relating back to the universal theme

who the monster really is and how he acts when he encounters the monster. Mary shows that

Fear and paranoia in society Throughout history paranoia and fear have ruled many human lives from places of power to places of poverty. In Arthur Miller’s play the Crucible the people in Salem have gone crazy with fear because someone cried witch. McCarthyism refers to when McCarthy held his own witch trails except it was with communists. They both have similarities that led to bad decisions and worse outcomes. The crucible is an example of how people can be swept up into the havoc and chaos around them.

In “The Virgin Mary’s Child” the use of fear and punishment as pedagogical devices gives the audience an exaggerated example of the negative outcome to discourage certain behaviors. Cautionary tales are distinguished by the plot being centered around a prohibition by an authoritative figure and a violation by the main character. The main character’s disobedience is a

I'm here to tell you about the urban legend of the Bloody Mary. “Bloody Mary” is a urban legend that first originated in in the early 1960s as an adolescent party game, and the person would take a candle or a flashlight and go into a dark room and look into a mirror and say a chant,” The exact chant is unknown”. After you say the chant a unknown amount of times something would appear and or happen. For example in the Poems of Robert Burns, published in 1787: Is a great example of a bloody mary ritual. “Take a candle, and go alone to a looking glass; eat an apple before it, and some traditions say, you should comb your hair all the time; the face of your conjugal companion, to be, will be seen in the glass, as if peeping over your shoulder.

First, Twyla introduces Mary from the beginning of the story, as her mother claiming that she was put in St. Bonny’s, because mother have been all night dancing. Twyla reveals that she

“She was a king’s daughter, she was a king’s sister, she was a king’s wife, she was a queen, and by the same title a king also” # Mary Tudor was an influential women of her time period. Many in modern society know her for her particularly bad reputation as Bloody Mary, however they do not realize the contributions she made, or her influence on history . The story behind Mary’s reputation gives insight as to her true accomplishments as England’s first queen.

In the play, Mary is a beautiful woman and lives the life like any other girls of her time; but she is emotionally attached to her sons and her family when she marries into the Tyrone family. She is also getting old, so she keeps going on her days worrying about her change of appearance. She suffers from a morphine addiction and she is psychologically wounded because of her past. She tries many times to break free but she could not stop as she spends time with her family. She has gone through many struggles but she cannot move on with her life. She keeps looking back into the past; and she regrets marrying into the family because of the dreams she had to sacrifice such as becoming a nun or a concert pianist.