The Eel Marsh House In Susan Hill's The Woman 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…

The Woman in Black only appears in shadows or in the reflection of a mirror using an over the shoulder camera shot. Throughout the film, the ghost is not seen directly in frame position to ensure that she isn’t seen directly by the audience. By positioning the Woman in Black in corners and hiding her in the shadows, it creates tension and adds a sense of mystery to a scene. This can be seen during the film whilst Arthur is in the house, and he drifts off to sleep. The evil spirit is seen in the shadows moving towards Arthur, the image of the Woman in Black becoming clearer as she moves closer to the lit

During the next weeks, Elizabeth was plagued by the memories of her aunt’s face as she spoke of the missing girls, and told her friends of her suspicions, and they told her that the cellar was supposedly haunted, and dared her to go down and talk to the ghost, or whatever was down there.

The blazing light was shining in my face and a slight breeze blew through the arched windows. I spotted an open chest in the attic, whilst spring cleaning. The outside rim of the box was covered in dust and cobbled webs; the hinge was rusty, making a creak noise against the ghost-quiet room. Rummaging my hand around the chest there was a scratchy-substance digging against my fingers. As the sun faded from my sight I lifted up the mysterious object. It was an old rustic book; I flipped through the delicate pages, every touch made a crinkling

The character that completely succumbs to the absolute reality of loneliness is Eleanor Vance. The uniqueness in Eleanor’s character is that she already lives a reality of loneliness, and she hopes to find company while staying at Hill House: “Perhaps I will encounter a devilishly handsome smuggler and… She turned her car onto the last stretch of straight dive leading her directly, face to face, to Hill house… The house was vile. She shivered and thought… get away from here at once.” (Jackson, 23). Eleanor came to Hill House without proper companionship, and yearns to have company. Like the House, Eleanor seems to be facing loneliness anxiety and experiences a basic alienation from making connections between any other human being. In addition

Being the mystery Arthur is he is also kind, a little weird, extremly smart, and a bookworm! Arthur lives with his Grandma. They are Logan Forbes neighbor. Logan just moved into Mrs. Donaldsons old house. Arthur was Logans first friend, he was nice to Logan and showed him around town,and told Logan about the history of his house.

Women in Black Women In black is about a young gentleman named Arthur Kipps who has to go to Grygriffian because of a fallen woman named Mrs.Drablow. As Arthur Kipps visit Mrs. Drablow house (The eel marsh house) he finds himself in a Haunted house where he finds The Women in Black. Susan Hill creates a sense of fear and tension by using variety of literary techniques. Susan Hill uses Pathetic fallacy in order to create suspense and foreboding.

The narrator has long many people in his life, but most importantly his son Alfred. Alfred dies in the war in 1917 and it was his death, which got the narrator to restore his family’s estate, Exham Priory. “It was this boy who reversed the order of family information; for although I could give him only jesting conjectures about the past, he wrote me of some very interesting ancestral legends when the late war took him to England in 1917

Shirley Jackson’s novel, The Haunting of Hill House, explores the cultural anxieties in the mid 20th century. Specifically, men use womanhood (societal norms) as purposely infantilizing women in order to confine the female mind. Jackson utilizes symbolism, metaphor, and anaphora in her novel in order to convey the message for men to stop infantilizing women. Moreover, Jackson spreads awareness that women are being confined by a system that men developed: womanhood. Hence, in effect, the novel serves as an informal protest against male repression through a medium that can be read by a wider audience —more importantly an indirect challenge to male readers. According to Krolokke, Second Wave Feminism became prominent due to cultural discontent with patriarchy during the mid 20th century. Moreover, Krolokke informs the readers that Second Wave Feminism influenced women to challenge traditional family roles and male ideologies about women not belonging in the workplace (11-12). Mid 20th century is also when Jackson published The Haunting of Hill House. So, with these historical and cultural contexts in mind, Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House ends the novel with Eleanor killing herself because she wants women to challenge the ideas of patriarchy into effect. Hence, Second Wave Feminism has a connection to Eleanor having a childlike personality (can not think for herself) because she wants women (especially young and single women) to explore their rights (their choices) and

Roderick, who believes he buried her alive, is going insane because when he imagines that she appears in front of her. Poe describes the feelings of Roderick in a manner that one can sense the fear that he must feel seeing someone return from the grave.

She says to him, “ Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband.”

On page 58 of New Atlantis Salomon’s House is described as an institution, “dedicated to the study of the works and creatures of God.” The purpose of the society is to discover and explore the true nature of all things. This is accomplished through the ordinance by which ships are sent out on voyages from the island. These ships sail to other countries collecting new knowledge of science, art, and manufacturing. Therefore, according to the priest, Salomon’s House functions as a center of trade, not of commodities, but of knowledge of God and his creation.

The Fortune Theatre in London performed the production “The Woman in Black,” on the 9th June 2016. This phenomenal Gothic production explores the spine-chilling story of a woman who had a child out of wed-lock in the Victorian era. She wanted revenge for the tragic death of her young son Nathaniel. The solicitor Mr Kipps discovers the unknown secrets of Eel Marsh House when reading through Alice Drablow unwanted files. I found this production exhilarating and chilling.

The Woman in Black is a classic horror story set in Northern England directed by James Watkins. It traces the final days of Arthur Kipp’s life and shows how the Woman in Black affects peoples life. Gothic horror is a sub-genre and originates in England during the 18th century. It usually features romanticism with the different horror aspects. Woman in Black is considered a gothic horror movie as it follows the traditional path of using elements that feature in a gothic horror movie, elements such as violent death, haunted buildings and ghosts. It also portrays the love between two different characters or more. In the Woman in Black, it traces the love between Arthur and his wife. Three gothic horror elements: ghosts, Haunted building, Death.

Helen Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, tells us a brief history of Liberia as she tells her story of her family as they escape through the trouble times in Liberia. During this time Liberia was in a horrifying time as she describes in chapter 13, April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers staged a coup d’état, assassinating President William Tolbert and executing his cabinet. After this tragic event the Coopers were being hunted. They were being imprisoned, shot, tortured, and raped. On the night of April 12th, a group of soldiers came into her house and raped her mother.