Assignment One Repurposed

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AMERICAN

HORROR STORY:

COVEN

ASSIGNMENT

ONE Little Spiel About the Spells

merican Horror Story: Coven is a television show about a coven of

witches living in present day New Orleans. The girls seem to reside in

some sort of boarding school in the eyes of the outside world outside

but those within the coven know the real purpose. The purpose of the

Coven is to keep the witches protected and help them to meet other witches like themselves. And the coven helps the witches to learn and

understand their powers. These witches are all decedents from the

Salem witch trials. Within the coven there is one witch who holds all

the powers; she is the Supreme. Outside of the coven there are other

witches residing in New Orleans. The other witches in New Orleans are

not quite witches because a witch does not need to use tools. These

women practice the art of dark magic and voodoo. All of these witches

are living together in secrecy from the normal human society.

Assignment One

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The Witch Hunt for

the Best

Assignment one is

on. And I think you

found your winner.

Spells

Witch Craft

Fight to the top

YOU’LL FIND

Relevant BackgroundInformation

ActorsObservations

Interview Analysis

ChartProposal



ACTORS Fiona Goode:

Cordelia Foxx:

Fiona is The Supreme she is a very confident

witch and she is what you would call “That

Bitch.” Fiona has been the supreme for decades

and does not care to give that title up. Fiona

recently found out she was dying and returned to

her coven to find the witch that is taking her

power and becoming the new Supreme. Fiona is

not to be messed with. She stated that the only

thing the whole world that the girls within her

coven have to be afraid of is her. Fiona alsostated that she is that witch, which she is. Fiona

contains every power and is not afraid to use her

magic for her benefit. Fiona is a shark so anyone

that cares to cross her path better “hail the

Supreme” or they may get bit.

Cordelia is Fiona’s daughter. Cordelia is mad at

her mother for leaving her at the coven as a child

and going to travel the world. Cordelia still loves

her mother a lot deep down. Cordelia is the head

mistress of the coven and is in charge of all of the

new witches. She is a very kind woman and does

believe in using her magic against others or for t

wrong reasons. Cordelia is married to a cheating

husband and is unable to have a baby even thoug

that is her biggest desire. Cordelia will become thnew Supreme.



Madison Montgomery:

Marie Laveau:

Madame Delphine LaLaurie:

Madison is a superstar bitch; her cover up for

the coven is a rehabilitating program her

publicist is making her do. Madison is

basically a little Fiona but not quite. Madison

is a bitchy little witch whose powers are

accelerating at phenomenal rates. Madison

believes she is the next Supreme and will kill

for her title. Madison is confident, beautiful,

and self-absorbed.

Marie is the Voodoo Queen and she has been alivefor hundreds of years. Marie sold her soul and

now has immortality as long she brings the man

she sold her soul to a baby every year. Marie is the

leader of the of the voodoo witches and is a

powerful black woman. Marie settles the score for

African Americans whenever she sees fit. She

settled the last 10-year war between the Coven and

her voodoo witches. Marie is also not to be messed

with.

Delphine Is a white Sadist from slavery times who use to

tortured and kill her slaves. Not only did Delphine

tortured African Americans she also tortured her

daughter when they plotted to kill her. Marie killed

Delphine’s family and trapped her in a box for over 100 years for her crimes against humanity. Fiona let

Delphine out the box to ask her how she stayed alive so

long and then made her into Queenie’s slaves, since she

hates African Americans so much. Delphine feels out of

place in today’s times and is shocked to find out we have

an African American president. Delphine slowly starts to

like Queenie.



Zoe Benson:

Queenie:

Nan:

Zoe is a sweet girl who upon having sex

for the time came to learn she was witch

with the power of killing people when

she has sex with them. Zoe is very sweet

and falls in love with a boy named Kyle who she invests most of her time in.

Queenie is an African American witch who is a real live voodoo doll. Whatever

Queenie does to herself others can feel.

Queenie is spunky and a virgin who just

wants to be loved. Queenie’s ancestor

was a slave and the first person in Salem

accused of being a witch.

Nan is clairvoyant. She is really sweet

and very observant. She often reads

people’s minds and tells others what

she found out. She has a crush on the

neighbor and he likes her back. She

says she has a way with the fellas.



OBSERVATIONS Observation 1: Fearful Pranks Ensue

5 minutes: A black boy who attended an all-white school for the first time was chased down and

hung in New Orleans 1961. Marie then conjured up a voodoo spell bringing up Zombies of civil war

veterans and creole people to kill the white men that killed the little boy. The opening song then

comes on. During the opening song a lot of images pop up of witchcraft and disturbing animals.

12 minutes: The butler Spalding comes downstairs from a tea party with his dolls to see Fiona killing

Madison. Spalding cleans up Madison’s body and pours Fiona a drink while Fiona tells him Madison

would “have made a lousy supreme.” Fiona goes to the greenhouse and see’s the aftermath of

Queenie’s rape by the Beast. Fiona and Cordelia work to help keep Queenie stay alive while also

arguing about Cordelia undermining Fiona’s authority and going to see Marie. Queenie dies and Fiona

brings her back to life but it seems to take a lot out of her. Delphine and Fiona talk about how the

beast was actually sent there for Delphine. Fiona kills the beast and sends its head to Marie’s hair

salon in a box.

17 minutes: Zoe talks to Kyle while he repeatedly bangs his head on the bathtub. Kyle is sad and says

he is no longer Kyle. Zoe goes to make Kyle some food and puts Rat poison in it but by the time she

gets back Kyle is gone. Zoe frantically goes to look for Kyle and realizes it is Halloween. Fiona is happy

because it is Halloween and that is her favorite day of the year. Fiona says she is going to let the whole

world in to get a good look at her tonight and then looks in the mirror and says, “Who’s the baddest

witch in town?”

24 minutes: Marie starts to make a spell and has a discussion w ith someone within her “coven”

about the repercussions of starting another war. Cordelia’s husband has sex with someone else and it

seems as though the baby spell Cordelia cast may have worked on her instead. Queenie wakes up and

Delphine attempts to thanks her for saving her life. The council then arrives. The council arrives

because Nan summoned them on behalf of the fact she cannot hear Madison anymore and thinks that

she is dead. The council starts to question the coven.

30 minutes: Cordelia’s husband killed the girl that he had sex with; he met her online. The council

continues to question people. One of the council member tries to confront Fiona. Then a flashback to

the time right after Fiona killed her supreme was shown and the same witch suspected her of killing

her supreme then.

Observation 2: Boy Parts



5 Minutes: The episode starts with two men catching an alligator. The men kill the alligator and then

they go back to a spot where they illegally have all of the alligators that they caught. When they return

back to this place they find Misty Day who is presumed to be dead she has the power of resurgence.

Misty is a witch who has the ability to bring things back to life. Misty brings the alligators that the

men killed back to life and they then kill the men. Then the intro to every episode plays. After that the

song plays that often comes on in and out, throughout the episode. Then the head mistress Cordelia

tells the girls to come down to a house meeting. Zoe and Madison then talk about how Madison killedZoe’s boy crush. Cordelia tells Fiona to come down for food while Fiona talks to Delphine, who she

has hidden in secrecy in her room.

12 minutes: Fiona asks Delphine how she stayed alive in a box for so long. Queenie tells the story of

how she arrived at that coven. She killed a man at the chicken place that she worked at by dipping her

hand in oil so in return it happened to him; she is a voodoo doll basically. Then she says her ancestor

was a slave and the first person in Salem accused of being a witch. Detectives come and question

Madison and Zoe about the frat bus Madison turned over and the surviving frat boy. Zoe came to the

hospital and killed the boy that raped Madison. Zoe tells the cops the whole story she can’t take theheat Madison and Cordelia deny these facts but Cordelia cannot take control of the conversation.

Fiona comes down stairs and spits in 2 cups of water then she wills the detectives to drink it, one of

them tries to put up a fight but Fiona’s powers are too strong. Fiona then goes upstairs and slams the

girls around the room and tells them if the heat comes they close rank.

21 minutes: Fiona tells the girls the only thing they have to be afraid of in the whole world is her.

Madison decides to help Zoe since she killed the guy the raped her. The girls break into the morgue

because Madison stole a reincarnation spell from Cordelia. Madison decides to put together the

perfect boy for Zoe so she brings the boy Zoe had a crush on back to life. Madison uses other dead

boys from the crash’s body parts to put together Zoe’s boy. Cordelia goes to the hospital and the

doctor tells her she still cannot have a child, her husband suggested they use magic but Cordelia does

not want to because she says it is dark, which escalated to a fight between her and her husband. Fiona

again asks Delphine how she has immortality. Delphine tells Fiona about Marie Laveau tricked her

and gave her a portion of immortality for her sins against humanity. Laveau also killed Delphine’s

family and told her that they had horrible deaths then she locks Delphine in a box and buries her

there.

25 minutes: The girls sew Kyle the dead boy’s body parts back on and recite the reincarnation spell

but it does not seem to work. Zoe tells Madison to sit in the car while she searches for her phone. As

Madison is outside a car pulls up so Madison gets in the car and says “Good luck bitch.” Zoe is inside

telling Kyle that she is sorry she then gives him a kiss and then a scene of Misty walking appears and

then the scene switches back to Zoe. A man that works at the morgue comes in so Zoe quickly hides he

tries to turn on the light but it does not work.

30 minutes: The man at the morgue sees Zoe and asks her what she is doing when Kyle comes alive

from behind him and kills him Zoe stops him. Kyle does not seem the same he is less human like and

more animal like. The scene then flips back to Misty. Nan starts to complain about something being

too loud she is clairvoyant. Queenie does not hear anything so she follows Nan to see what is wrong.



Nan lets Delphine free Delphine then moves pass Queenie and says “Move slave.” Queenie say “Bitch

who you calling a slave,” then Delphine hits her in the head while she isn’t looking. Fiona and Laveau

have a conversation as to how witches and people who do voodoo are the same and different. Fiona

asks Laveau for the secret to how she has stayed alive so long.

Observation 3: The Replacements

5 minutes: Fiona cannot sleep she reaches for her medicine and then a flashback comes into screen

Fiona is now young and talking to her supreme. They talk about how someone knows when they are

about to become supreme and Fiona says she will be the next one. Fiona then kills her supreme after

her supreme makes a threat that Fiona will be in hell before she gets a chance to be supreme. Fiona

cuts her Supremes’ throat and says see you there. Then she turns and sees that the butler she nods

and he smiles. Then present day comes and Fiona is in the exact same spot looking at the picture of

her supreme she turns around and see the butler and says “What’s the matter; cats got your tongue”

and gave him her drink then walks away. Then the beginning song comes on.

11 minutes: Fiona goes to a plastic surgeon for her face because she feels as though she has lost her

dance. Zoe goes to visit Kyle’s mother who is smoking weed through a bowl Zoe tells Kyle’s mother

she will see him again. The girls watch as their new hot neighbors move in his mom doesn’t seem to

like the girls. Delphine sees that there is a black president and is in denial then Fiona orders Delphine

to be the house maid. Madison talks about Nan and Queenie being virgins but Nan isn’t one. Delphine

refuses to serve Queenie because she is black. Queenie almost smacks Delphine then Fiona comes

down stairs and orders Delphine to be Queenies slave. Fiona then says there is nothing she hates

more than a racist.

19 minutes: Zoe and Misty get into a fight over Kyle. Misty wants Zoe to stay but Zoe wants to get

Kyle back to his mother. Kyle choses Zoe then Misty gets sad and starts dancing. Madison and Zoey go

over to meet the next door neighbor Nan brings his favorite cake, Madison brings a hot dress. The

neighbor seems more interested in Nan his mother then storms in and makes a smart remark “Is this

the welcoming committee,” then asks the girls to go because she about to go to church. Madison says

church is a “Crock of shit,” then the mother tries to take the knife Madison w as cutting the cake with

and Madison flung it across the room the mother orders them to leave and never talk to her son again

24 minutes: Madison sets the neighbors curtain on fire with her power she didn’t even know shehad. Zoe takes Kyle back to his mother even though he didn’t seem to want to go. The doctor tells

Cordelia she cannot have children while simultaneously another doctor is telling Fiona she can’t get

plastic surgery because her body is breaking down. The neighbor mom comes to snitch on Madison

and Fiona condones Madison’s behavior saying “she needs to work on her aim,” because the neighbor

said the knife missed her by an inch. She then tells her that Madison set her curtain in fire which

sparks Fiona attention Madison tells the neighbor she conjured the devil and that’s how the curtains

combusted which scared the neighbor off. Madison and Fiona then talk.



31 minutes: Kyles mother sees that his body parts are not the same then she starts to molested him

and he starts to cry. Cordelia goes to Marie Laveau for a poison for her to have a baby and Laveau

seems to be for it, for only 50 thousand in cash. Cordelia wants to do it and Laveau says no because of

Fiona. Cordelia starts to cry.

American Horror Story Academic Article: Sex NPR: Witch CraftMagic, Voodoo=

Ted Talks (will

pick one):

Witchcraft NPR:

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My Proposal

O VER RECENT YEARS THERE HAS BEEN AN EMERGENCE OF TELEVISION SHOWS STARING SE

KILLERS. NOT ONLY HAVE THESE SHOWS FLOURISHED, THE SERIAL KILLERS WITHIN THEM

BECOME SENSATIONS. THESE TYPES OF SHOWS ARE OFTEN NOMINATED FOR AND RECEIVE M

AWARDS INCLUDING EMMY ’S. THESE SHOWS HAVE HAD NUMEROUS POPULAR SEASONS A

MANY FANS CRINGE AT THE IDEA OF THERE BEING A SERIES FINALE. PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE

IN LOVE WITH THESE SHOWS, FEATURING PSYCHOPATHIC CRIMINALS, AND MORE SPECIFIC

THE PSYCHOPATH HIMSELF. THE QUESTION IS WHY ? W HY ARE A MERICANS AND THE MED

OBSESSED WITH MASS MURDERS? W HAT IS IT THAT MAKES A MERICANS LOVE THESE TELEV

SHOWS FEATURING THESE “MONSTERS”?


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https://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures




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