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That’s a horrible picture, isn’t it? But...

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The Mill on the Floss

Helen Edmundson George Eliot

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Child
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Two
Time & Place
St. Ogg’s, Dorlcote Mill, Victorian England
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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That’s a horrible picture, isn’t it? But I can’t help looking at it. That woman in the water is a witch -- well, they’ve put her in to find out whether she’s a witch or not, and if she swims she’s a witch, and if she’s drowned, and killed, you know, she’s innocent and not a witch, just a poor silly woman.
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The devil takes the shape of wicked men, mostly blacksmiths because if people saw he was the devil and he roared at them, they’d run away and he couldn’t make ‘em do what he wanted.

Helen Edmundson, The Mill on the Floss, Nick Hern Books, 1994, pp.4.

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