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The witch doctor is an old man from Congo who is sent to Jones as an apparition. He dances a story about fighting evil spirits and at the end he attempts to sacrifice Jones to a crocodile god. Jones uses his final silver bullet to destroy the crocodile god and the witch doctor.
The Witch Doctor Quotes in The Emperor Jones
The The Emperor Jones quotes below are all either spoken by The Witch Doctor or refer to The Witch Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Scene 7 Quotes
What—what is I doin'? What is—dis place? Seems like—seems like I know dat tree—an' dem stones—an' de river. I remember—seems like I been heah befo'.
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Jones wanders into the final clearing by the river, where there's a rocky altar set up, and feels as though he recognizes the place. Taking this scene as a whole, Jones's feeling of familiarity suggests that this kind of instinctive memory and familiarity is something inherent to individuals who are descended from slaves (at least in O’Neill’s view). In turn, this implies that the entire legacy of slavery, from people's origins in Africa to the subjugation African Americans experience in the US in the early 20th century, is part of a person like Jones's experience that he cannot separate himself Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commod
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The Witch Doctor Character Timeline in The Emperor Jones
The timeline below shows where the character The Witch Doctor appears in The Emperor Jones. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Scene 7
...him. Jones crawls away from the altar and cowers on the ground, crying hysterically. The witch doctor appears from behind a tree, bearing a bone rattle and a "charm stick."
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The witch doctor silently surveys the clearing, positions himself between Jones and the altar, and begins to dance...
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The witch doctor appears to dance a story of a deity demanding a sacrifice. He mimes being pursued...
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The witch doctor points with his charm stick to a tree, the river, the altar, and then to...
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As Jones moans, the witch doctor jumps to the edge of the river and seems to call to something in it....
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The crocodile crawls further out of the river as the witch doctor's chanting and the tom-tom reaches a fever pitch. Jones cries out and pleads for Jesus...
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