Speaker: Mary (narration) 1st person She is obviously a woman accused of being a witch
Occasion: The author might have thought to show a point of view from a victum of a false accusation with high consequences in order to show the wrongness of the ridiculous finger pointing during this time period. The Salem witch trials is an event that the piece was based on.
Audience: It seems the audience was the people in her community (because she said "you were my friend too... I cured your baby" and asks questions like "Help me down"). Then around ten pm she seems to be talking to God, then at 3am it seems that she is talking to an outer audience.
Purpose: The speaker's purpose is to give people a glance into the feelings of someone who went through a hanging for an absurd conviction (being a witch) and show them how dumb it was that due to hysteria, the public actually bought into that bologna. It showed that Mary was innocent, friendly woman in the community was so quick to be hanged for the fear of her being a witch.
Subject: Mary getting hanged and living for witchery (what Mary was going through)
Tone: Mary seems sarcastic to me. Its kind of depressing that everyone turned her back on her, and even though she lived her mental scarring changed her for the worse. The author seems to be dealing with the hanging and willing enough to hold on for dear life but her views and attitude will never be the same agian
I like how you said that mary seemed sarcastic, I kept trying to think of words to describe the tone, and sacarstic makes sense.
ReplyDeletejordie nicely done. The tone is depressing i agree
ReplyDeleteI feel the same on just about everything you said.
ReplyDeleteSarcastic was a good way to put it. At times it seemed as if Mary was just nonchalant about the whole situation once it was over.