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Bloody mary

            
             Mary was the child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
             She was disowned by her father because of his divorce to her mother and was raised separately from her siblings. .
             Edward VI, her brother, was protestant. Mary was Roman Catholic. In Edwards' reign the religion in England was protestant. .
             During Mary's reign she changed all the churches in England back to Roman Catholic. .
             She replaced protestant priests with Roman Catholic ones and changed the bible back to Latin from English. .
             Many people did not like this and many Protestants fled abroad as a result of being threatened to become Roman Catholic or be severely punished. .
             Mary executed Thomas Cranmer who was a senior member of the church. She executed him because he granted Henry the divorce the pope would not give to him. She wanted him to suffer, she hated him. .
             It was only after Cranmer was burnt people thought this was unfair because he was a senior member of the clergy. .
             The execution of Cranmer turned many ordinary people against Mary's policy of persecuting Protestants. .
             In the 150 years before Mary reigned an average of 1 person per year was executed for heresy in England. In 3 ½ years Mary executed an average of 2 people per week. 284 people in total were burned during her reign. .
             1/3 of Marys victims were members of the clergy 1/5 of victims were women and the rest were common people. .
             Other monarchs executed people they didn't like or had broken the law. Even her own father had executed his best friend because he believed that Henry was not rightfully head of the Church of England. .
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             Everyone in England was happy when Mary became queen but they were even happier when she died. .
             I don't think Mary deserved her nickname because other monarchs executed people too. But the main reason Mary burned people was to purify their souls and make them Roman Catholic before they died so they would get to heaven. She did it to be kind.


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For this fact, Queen Mary deserved to be given the nickname "Bloody Mary". ... Mary chose to kill the Protestants rather than forbid them. ... From this we cannot gather that she is "bloody", however, it shows her ruthless and somewhat greedy character which leads to the countless persecutions of the Protestants, and it shows her hatred towards the Protestants. ... In conclusion, Mary Tudor deserved to be nicknamed "Bloody Mary" because of the extent of killings which she instructed to occur. ... From these killings, Mary will always be known as Bloody Queen Mary. ...

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2. Superstition

From the classics of "Friday the 13th" to infamous Bloody Mary, superstitions have become part of our daily lives. ... Well, there was a superstition that originated about 100 years ago about a woman named Mary. ... Bloody Mary, as she is called, roams the earth as an evil spirit. ... As a kid, we used to dare each other to go into a bathroom by ourselves, turn off the light, and say "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Blood ."... Blood Mary originated with parents or the church to try to scare kids away from calling up ghosts or spirits because the church linked it to Satanism. ...

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3. Mary Tudor

Mary was the only child to survive from her parents' marriage. ... Finally, in 1553, Mary Tudor became the Queen of England. ... Her nickname "Bloody Mary" derives from the fact that during her four-year reign, 277 Protestants were burned as heretics. ... Mary was generally not a happy woman. ... Mary Tudor died on November 17, 1558, at the age of forty-two. ...

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4. Magdalen of the Smoking Flame

Mary Magdalene. ... It was a story that intrigued me and Mary definitely piqued my interest. ... On the table with the lamp sit some books, a wooden cross, and a bloody scourge. ... The books show her spirituality, and the bloody scourge is indicative of the more physical repentance that is sometimes practiced. ... Mary is gazing at a candle burning on the table beside her. ...

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5. A Feminist View On Hamlet

Hamlet's replies by accusing his mother of the "bloody deed" she helped to act out, in order to kill the King, her former Husband. ... Is she just lying or is she maybe in denial and still believes that she is a saint, the typical Mary that she is supposed to be. ... Notice how rose is used in reference to the typical caring and loving housewife, the classical Mary characteristics. ... The classical Mary is seen as pure, innocent and perfect with no sign of evilness. The image of women conveyed in this passage can be broken down into two types; one being Mary and the other Eve. ...

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6. Puritan Views

Mary Rowlandson," how the Indians so savagely murdered a family in their own home. ... Her woman master Wetamo was very hard on Mary, often taking her anger out on he! ... Mary quickly retrieved it and kept it out of her horrible master's site from then on. In another instance Mary complained of her traveling pack being to heavy. ... One night when Mary was cold she moved a stick from the fire to keep her warm. ...

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7. Elizabeth

Jane Grey was the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary.... Doing this, Mary earned the nickname "Bloody Mary." ... During the time that Bloody Mary was at the throne, she was deeming marriage to Philip of Spain.... Mary, convinced Elizabeth was faking, sent her own doctors. ... (Starkey 139) Through this pass, she was taken under the Bloody Tower and glimpsed, on the other side of the court and saw the scaffold on which Lady Jane Grey was executed. ...

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8. Tudor Family

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9. Queen Elizabeth

he died in 1547, and that's when Mary Tudor, also known as bloody mary, became queen. Elizabeth tried not to get to involved in politics during Mary's reign but certain conspiracies arose and Elizabeth was locked in the tower of London. When Mary was six her mother , Anne Bolyen, was charged with treason and executed and at the age of fourteen her father died also. ...

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