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Term Paper Title	Alex Schmidt
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Alex Schmidt
English
23-28a

Elizabethan Torture
Torture is the use of physical or mental pain used to use to punish a person. During the Elizabethan age stretching, burning, beating, and suffocating were not uncommon. The purpose of torture was to break down a person, to a certain extent, make the person feel inhuman.
Torture had been used long before the Elizabethans. China had used many forms of torture. In fact some of the torture methods were taken from the Chinese. The Chinese had a torture where a man would be dipped into cold water, then hot water and then back to cold. The idea was to make the mans heart rapidly speed up and then come to a sudden halt. Eventually the mans heart would explode. The English would torture women by sitting then on top of a chair tied to a pole. The women would then be dunked in over and over into a barrel of boiling water until she was dead.
Women endured many more painful tortures than men did. Men usually were immediately killed in an almost painless fashion. Women who gossiped were tortured by a brank which was placed on their heads and attached the their tongues. With sharp spikes attached to the tongue, any gossip from the woman would result in a stab through the tongue; it would only take about four stabs until the tongue would fall out of the mouth. Another mouth device was an amputation saw. Like the brank, but this cut much slower and didn’t leave as clean of a cut.
It was during the times of the Tudors that the use of torture reached its height in England. Under the rule of Henry VIII torture was frequently used. When Edward and Mary were ruling torture wasn’t used as much. But when Elizabeth had taken over the throne, if a women decided to poison her husband, she was burned alive. Not only would they be killed crowds of over 100 would gather to watch a person burn.
Torture could also have been humiliation. The idea of visiting with peers and having a mark on your forehead or a missing limbs. All sign which symbolize that one has done something wrong. For example if a women committed perjury than the letter “P” would be burned onto they’re foreheads. Forced to show the letter until the day they die.
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