... to suffer a fate parallel to hers. Because her own son Edward was killed, Margaret predicts that - 2 - Elizabeth's young son, also named Edward, will die. In addition, because her own husband Henry was murdered, Margaret prays that Elizabeth will outlive her glory and see her husband and children die before her, " die, neither mother, wife, nor England's queen." Elizabeth finally realizes that ... , remembering Margaret's curse, says the it has finally descended upon them and that the fate that awaits them is their punishment for their original complicity in the Yorkists" murder of Henry...

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• Grade Level: High School

English 113 Short Essay Assignment Christopher McElgunn Reverend John Hale is the cerebral, yet unproven, witch-hunter whom enters the play in Act I when Reverend Parris summons him to examine his daughter, Betty. She has fallen in a deep trance and, though it pains him ... Carrying around his large books and projecting an air of great knowledge, the townspeople seem somewhat comforted by his presence and demeanor of self-assured expertise. In Act I Henry Miller describes him with great detail as "a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual. This is a beloved errand for him; on being called here...

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• Grade Level: High School