Consider and Explore how far Susan Hill Encourages us to feel Sympathy for the Women in Black

Stephen Mallatratt’s adaption to play of “The Woman in Black” portrays the story of a man named Mister Kipps, who is a solicitor who has been sent to an abandoned home in the East of the country in order to collect the legal papers of a recently deceased woman. However, the audience learns that the woman living in Ell Marsh House was haunted by a spirit known as The Woman in Black. Being based in the turn of the previous century, the play tackles the themes of how the fear of the unknown can transform a man of science into a man fearful of the dark and every single creek; and how the concept of revenge can cause an embittered woman to seek vengeance and claim the thing she lost: Children. The play is set during the time where superstition was surpassed by science and where a rational explanation was being required for how everything occurs but how science can be destroyed by the unexplainable…

Likewise, Kincaid wrongly judges her mother. In her essay, “The Estrangement’” she tells that she stopped talking to her mother after she spoke unkindly about her in a conversation they had through the phone. She describes her mother as a person that was seen as nice by others, but not by her nor her younger siblings. She asserts that her mother, “said horrible things to us more often than not” and that the nice person everyone saw in her “was not at all known to us” (Kincaid 170). In other words, her mother was unaffectionate to them. A statement she makes evident when she tells about the time his step-father was buried next to her mother and her uncertainty of whether he would have liked that based on her and her siblings preferences. She claims, “we would rather be dead than spend eternity lying next to her” (Kincaid 170). In other terms, they despised her mother for the treatment she gave them. However, later in the text, there is a shift in tone: from hate to acknowledgement and love. Her perception of her mother changes after she realizes how

The author, Susan Hill, makes the first encounter with the Woman in Black distinctly foreboding by her use of description, sound and Mr Kipps’s apparent innocence.

Danticat is wanting the reader to be aware of the women’s suffrage still happening in the world. Even though they themselves may not be experiencing it, the injustice displayed upon women is a real thing. She stated in the article that “my grandmother was an old country woman who always felt dis-placed in the city… where we lived and had nothing but her patched-up quilts and her stories to console her,” (Danticat). The stories shared between Danticat and her grandmother are forever etched into her memory. Since death was such a commonality, Danticat was not even fazed when her grandmother passed. The fact of the emotionless death alone should shed a light on the terribleness of the situation. Death should never be an everyday thing.

He never returned home so she thought that he was dead. She says that she was young and not necessarily ready to marry Roger when she did. She loved him but she wasn't in love with him. She did care about Roger because he asked her not to tell anyone that he was her husband and she didn't tell anyone. She respected what he wanted done and if she didn't care about him at all then she would have told everyone that he was her husband. She was in love with Arthur but could never confess that to anyone else besides him because she didn't want anything to go wrong for Arthur. Arthur was supposed to set a good example about how to deal with life and not to commit sins because he was the minister of the church in their city. Little did everyone know that he was the adulterous. No one ever suspected him of it because no know would've thought that a minister would do

In The Woman in Black Arthur frequently disobeys the warnings of others including Mr Daily of pursuing Jennet. With him stressing to Arthur "Don't go chasing shadows Arthur...". With any action Arthur takes to find information about Jennet resulting in harm or death to an innocent person, for example in the township, a girl is locked away in her room, a fire sweeps through the house, with Arthur racing to same her, Jennet possess the girl as she allows herself to be burnt alive. However, Arthur disregards Mr Daily's lesson and the obvious dislike the residents have for Arthur, which shows his stubbornness when he says "I feel she is there, trying to reach me" This quote shows that even though Arthur has been forewarned against any action or the pursuit of Jennet, he still continues, which shows his irresponsibility especially since he has a son to care for. With Mr Daily saying "You said you have a son.

How does Susan Hill present the woman in black as a figure of mystery and fear? This essay will explore the use of language, setting, description and literary devices which are used to portray the woman in black as a figure of mystery and fear. One of the major players in how the reader perceives her and how they are conditioned to see her in the future is in how our protagonist, Arthur Kipps, refers to her.

Often, protagonists have more in common with antagonists than originally believed upon the introduction of a novel. Revealing a character in his entirety takes time. Such is the way In Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter. Welty portrays Fay and Laurel very differently in their relationships with the Judge; however, upon further examination, Fay and Laurel do have striking similarities regarding their out-of-place lives in Mount Salus without the Judge.

Where Fay tends to only think about herself and her well being, Laurel’s flashbacks often paint a picture of a very selfless Becky. The reader can infer this during Laurel’s remembrance of Becky trying to save her father. Although he does not live, Becky risked her life trying to get her father to a hospital. However, Fay continuously lies and does what she can to better herself throughout the novel. For instance, she lies about not having a family, so that no one knows she comes from as equally obnoxious people. She and Laurel get into a fight at the end of the novel over Fay’s refusal to treat Becky’s possessions, which have sentimental value to Laurel, with care. Eudora Welty depicts Fay as a woman who only thinks of herself and who lives for her own self-preservation in Mount Salus,

When she sees that it is her friend Charlotte in this heart breaking situation, she says: “gracious heaven is this possible? And bursting into tears, she reclined the burning head of Charlotte on her own bosom; and folding her arms about her, wept over in silence” [125]. In this passage, Mrs. Beauchamp proves how sentimental and good she could be because not only does she have a sick child at home, but she finds the time to actually care about others and because she actually cries for Charlotte, a person who is not even her relative. She is a sentimental person because she is the only one that in the beginning offered Charlotte her friendship and because thanks to her, Charlotte’s father is able to see Charlotte one last time and forgive her. In many cases, this might be confused with weakness but it is not weakness. It is the ability to feel others pain as your own, it is the ability to care for others as you would your own relative; it is being a moral person and only through the act of sensibility can this be shown. In a situation like this, an immoral person might have only thought about their own problems and not the problems of others.

Susan Hill creates dislike for the woman in black in the chapter “Across the Causeway”. Our protagonist Arthur Kipps is alone and isolated in Eel Marsh House grounds. Susan Hill uses contrast of the nice weather, earlier in the chapter “Today, all was bright and clear” (p.66) to using pathetic fallacy after he was left “alone in this wild and remote spot.” (p.71) She gives nature, human traits and feelings in page 72 to create a sense of foreboding, to foreshadow, the impending dilemma of the woman in black; For the “sun was already beginning to slip down in a great, wintry, golden-red ball which shot arrows of fire” she suggests it elapsed quickly and sneakily, cheerless

Since the colonists landed on the eastern shore of what is now the United States, there has been conflicts between the different races. White people assumed a dominant role. They wiped out most of the Native Americans and enslaved the African people after bringing them to their colonies. These social dynamics changed over time but it has been a slow process. In Angela Davis’ book Women, Race, & Class, she delves into the oppression that was faced by people due to their social identities. She believes that people do not suffer because of class status, racial or gender identity alone but rather they suffer because of different combinations of the three.

The woman in black is a horror and mystery novel written by Susan Hill. It has lots of details and description of the place where things took place. All the details and description of the setting brings the dark and mysterious atmosphere because it makes me feel like I am actually in that mysterious town, Crythin Gifford and the house Eel Marsh. And also the woman who dressed in black appeared and disappeared several times. The woman in Black is basically the story of protagonist’s curiosity of her identity.

"I'd see the bus pass every day ... the bus was among the first ways

He instead accepts Hester and Pearl, a positive though final step. Arthur recognizes that he should have put aside his desire for public worship when he says: "‘People of New England!...ye, that have loved me!--ye, that have deemed me holy!--behold me here, the one sinner of the world! At last!--at last!--I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood; here, with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward, sustains me, at this dreadful moment, from grovelling down upon my face!'"(220) Even his confession, however, is tainted by the fact that his death is near at hand. He cannot entirely escape his desire to have the people look well upon him because he dies a hero's death. Arthur dies in the heroine's arms, publicly and somewhat triumphantly, having gotten a certain amount of ugliness off his scarred chest. The difficult blow of his adulterous fornication is softened for onlookers because his pain and impending death are so apparent. His cathartic confession is not followed by a lifetime of public shame as that which Hester has endured but rather peace in heaven, presumably, considering his repentance. It seems that Arthur has the benefit of the confession and recognition without the painful aftermath, and because his confession comes so close to his time of death, he is remembered as the sweet man he was before his death and not as shamefully as he could