Three Sovereigns for Sarah - True Story of the Salem Witch Trials
In the movie Three Sovereigns for Sarah, the characters came alive and the audience was really invited into the plot. It seems as though the author and or director's purpose in this movie was to coral the audience into one view and that was to see the girls as faking and the accused as sweet and innocent. Also, if the author had been devoutly religious, the vocabulary, and speeches by all the characters would have been different. When he wrote the screenplay, the author was implying that the people of the present day knew better than to believe in witches and diabolical possession. He modernized the movie in a way where the whole underlying deceit and manipulation was lost. …
