In the morning of a morose, dour day, crowds of unfamiliar, yet related villagers enter the empty, old glade of the dark, somber, dismal holt that stretches out for miles. Men, women, and children, the good people of the Pilgrim colony, Brotherhood, where iniquity is dragged out of shadows and into the light to be scorned, criticized, and remembered, came in union to witness the judgement of one of the members of this gray, mundane, and rhadamanthine society, where scaffold continues to be an integral part of the penal system, and to be as effective an agent in the promotion of good citizenship, character, and integrity.
The pillory at which all was assembled, dark, rusty, and covered in a thick layer of dust, closely resembling snow, rose as a framework of that …show more content…
As she appeared on the horizon, a screeching, loud voice penetrated the quiet and serene scene, " Open the way, and I promise ye to have a fair sight of the lady's judgement hour, from now till meridian," a man of the court of God promised. The crowd made way and watched with derision as Katherine's soft and fragile figure hesitantly passed through the murmuring, jejune horde, she stood out, not alike the others, something in the way she set forth towards the pillory appointed for her punishment. In the holt, surrounded by wilderness, the beasts inside the honorable Pilgrims became unleashed, morphing and joining the howls untamed, feral creatures in ways alike themselves. There she stands, at the pillory, in a long, dull attire alike all good Puritans, her visage, still as a mask, no wrinkle or imperfection, on the inside though, Katherine was trembling with fear, pain, dismay, counting down minutes till her shameful day is over. She, however, knew that this guilt and agony will haunt her for as long as she lives, the shame