Summary Of The Film Witches: A Century Of Murder

The Tale of Witches The documentary Witches: A Century of Murder, directed by Chris Holt, explained how the fear of the unknown and hatred caused many deaths for innocent people. Discussing the trails of witches in the 1500’s and 1600’s. In the series three literary terms are used Prologue, Foreshadowing, and flashback. Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb tells us about how the witch-hunts began in Europe with a book written by a monk. She also explained how the fear of satan palyed a hand in the murders and torture of many people. In the beginning Dr. Lipscomb used to the line “This is the British Isles 400 years ago, Mass trails and execution erupted across the country.” The term prologue gives the setting and background of the film or inn this case series, it connects the earlier story to the main story. By using the line above, she gives the setting of where the trails take place. This goes with the term of prologue but also foreshadowing, because most of the prologues uses foreshadowing to give a sense of what is going to happen in the series. By using prologue, she helps the audience pinpoint the events so that later they will not be confused by what is happening in the series.
The most significant form of foreshadowing is the title that says a century of murders happened because of the belief of witches. Foreshadowing is used a lot throughout this series, another example would be when King James the first wrote the book Daemonologie. The book when introduced in the series was written by someone in high position, when King James 1 ruled England the book spread that caused the people to act in accords to the book Daemonolgie, people were burned who did or did not confess to being a