What is the Beadle in Sweeney Todd?
Beadle Bamford, also known as The Beadle, is the secondary antagonist of the 1979 musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and the 2007 live action film of the same name. He is a church officer who acts as the sidekick of Judge Turpin and one of the people whom Sweeney Todd has targeted to kill.
What did Beadle do Johanna?
Once the Judge and his Beadle had Barker removed, Lucy was left alone to care for her one-year-old daughter, Johanna. The Judge and Beadle invited her to a party at the Judge's mansion, got her drunk and then raped her in the midst of a masked ball ("Poor Thing").
What does Beadle Bamford snort?
Beadle snorts what's presumably snuff.
What did Judge Turpin do to Johanna?
He is the main antagonist, who imprisons Benjamin Barker on a false charge, rapes Barker's wife, and takes Barker's daughter Johanna as his ward; he also has sexual designs on Johanna, and has her institutionalized so that her true love Anthony Hope cannot take her from him.
Did Sweeney Todd know Johanna was his daughter?
From there she presumably witnesses Todd's murders of the Beggar Woman and the Judge. She is nearly murdered by her father when he discovers her, as he does not recognize her as his daughter (seeing as he had never met her since infancy and because she is disguised as a young man).
What did Judge Turpin do to Lucy?
She is the faithful and loving wife of Benjamin Barker and mother of Johanna Barker, whose life is destroyed by the evil Judge Turpin, who exiles her husband in order to have her all to himself. Soon afterward, Turpin rapes her, so she then poisons herself with arsenic.
Does Sweeney Todd marry Mrs Lovett?
Character overview While in most versions of the Sweeney Todd story Mrs. Lovett's past history is not stated, usually she is depicted as a childless widow, although in some depictions (but very rarely) Mr. Albert Lovett is shown.
Is Sweeney Todd kid friendly?
Extreme violence, a disturbing dark ethic, and a bloodthirsty and nauseous story about cannibalism. Not for young children.
Does Johanna get raped in Sweeney Todd?
Lovett tells Sweeney Todd (previously Benjamin Barker) that she had poisoned herself, however she conveniently forgets to add that she survived the attempted suicide. Although she survives, she is left mentally insane from it. After the Judge raped her, he took her daughter, Johanna Barker, as his ward.
Why does Mrs. Lovett lock Toby in the basement?
Lovett locks Toby in the bakehouse under the pretext of teaching him how to grind meat.
What happens to Johanna at the end of the story?
Moving onto the events of Mockingjay, in the aftermath of Peeta's torture, he gets hijacked by the Capitol and makes Katniss out as a target to kill. Johanna, however, during her time at the Capitol, gets soaked in water and electrocuted — which I imagine is about as bad as it gets.