Character Analysis
An old friend of Shonny and Mavis's, and a "seedsman by trade" (3.8.1), Father Shackel is a rural man of the cloth who continued to minister to Catholic believers even after Christianity was outlawed by the State. Like Father Ambrose Bayley, Father Shackel is released from prison after the global food crops begin to fail. That's when the British government decides that allowing the people to turn towards religion, superstition, and paganism might be a good idea after all.