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Woman In Black quotes

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Positive Arthur Kipps, Bike ride; Retardation of the narrative; Arthur to be healed due to travelling in the medicinal countryside environment. Progression of character as he looses his Londoners sense of superiority.
'He felt like a new man, proud, satisfied and eager to tackle the worst'
Positive Arthur Kipps, Positive Jennet Humfrey, discovery of Jennets letters; realisation of harsh treatment Jennet received from society, showing character development as he has empathy for others, novel of manners opposed to a gothic novel
'I felt sorry for J'
Positive Arthur Kipps, Positive Stella, love; sense of comfort for Arthur, she is like an angel
'Stella, my own dear Stella
Negative Arthur Kipps, Class, Crythin Gifford; shows isolation and Arthurs Londoners sense of superiority
'bleakness and strangeness of the area'
Negative Arthur, supernatural;He is anxious and he depends upon the weather
'My spirits for many years now have been excessively affected by the ways of the weather'
Negative Arthur, Class; He is innocent and lacks knowledge; Londoners sense of superiority
'I am afraid I don't quite understand'
Positive Jennet Humfrey, Alice Drablows funeral; Jennet went to Alices funeral implying she felt no animosity towards her, perhaps grateful for the adoption
'She was dressed in the deepest black'
Positive Jennet Humfrey, Negative Alice Drablow, Love, Betrayl; Alice caused Jennet much pain by keeping her away from her son; shows maternal love - victim of social injustice
'The pain of being parted from him... grew worse'
Positive Jennet Humfrey, Love, Discovery of Jennets letters; Feel sorry for Jennet, loves her son dearly, potentially suffers from PTSD
'I think my heart will break
Negative Jennet Humfrey, Revenge, Betrayl; vengeful and need for revenge
'Desperate yearning malevolence'
Negative Jennet Humfrey, Revenge, Children, London, Death of Nathanial; infanticide
'Our baby son had been thrown clear against a tree'
Negative Jennet Humfrey, Revenge, Betrayal, Death of Stella; WIB not entirely focused on committing infanticide, mercilessly kills, makes Arthur suffer from the death of wife and child
'Her body was broken'
Negative Jennet Humfrey, Morbility, Revenge, Stella and Joseph death; cyclical in description of the novella, never ending circle of events, monstrous feminine appearance,
'It was she, the woman in black with the wasted face'
Positive Alice Drablow, Children, Love; This shows how well the Drablows looked after Nathaniel, and did their best to treat him as their own son
'beautiful, well-made clothes'
Positive Alice Drablow, Eel Marsh House; the description of the houses sublime beauty could reflect Alices character
'My heart reeled at the sheet and startling beauty'
Negative Alice Drablow, Betrayal; Alice caused Jennet much pain by keeping her away from her son
'Alice Drablow would not let her see the boy at all'
Negative Alice Drablow, Eel Marsh House, Isolation; reflects the Drablows' cheerlessness, depicted as a gothic trope, rather ordinary home
'A dull, rather gloomy and rather unwelcoming home'
Negative Alice Drablow, Isolation, Betrayal, Alice Drablows funeral; very few attended her funeral suggesting she was aloof and disliked. Women who lived alone were condemned and criticised, forsaken by the community
'Marked by no blood relative or hearts friend'
Negative Alice Drablow, Class, Rumours at Crythin Gifford; Gothic trope of a sinister aristocrat, civilians regarded with suspicion
'Hints and dark mutterings by grown men at the mention of Alice Drablow'
Negative Alice Drablow, children, betrayal; Deprived Nathanial of motherly affection. Children having a 'sixth sense' and being able to sense evil is a gothic trope. Suggests he sense malevolence
'He became more and more attached to the woman... and... he began to be colder towards Alice'
Positive Samual Daily, Class; Presented as a heroic rescuer, proves his loyalty
'Samual Daily had treated me with as much care and concern as an invaild'
Positive Samual Daily, class; represents the rising middle class who's fortune and status rises alongside their business associations
'he was so simple, so direct, so unashamed of his ambitions'
Positive&Negative Samual Daily, Train journey, supernatural; short sharp responses of Daily, reveals the candour and honesty of the locals
'If you think you've escaped the fogs by coming up here, you're mistaken'
Negative Samual Daily, class; Arthur feels intimidated, judging appearance
'He looked me up and down inquisitively'
Negative Edmund, Children, ; Early signs of Jewish traits in Edmund, an outcast or different within a Victorian society, reincarnation on Nathanial?
'Pale skinned and long nosed'
Negative Mr Bently, Class; fragmented speech demonstrates his character, unemotive, susceptive to rumour and judgemental
'Mrs Drablow was, as they say, a rum'un'
Crythin Gifford; provides a hospital welcome, retards the narrative and lulls him into a false sense of security
'little market town...were distinctly favourable'
Nine Lives Causeway, Supernatural, Fear; mist is portrayed as an antagonistic force preserving Arthur - reflection of the Drablows, pathetic fallacy to reflect the ominous nature of the Drablows
'A thick, damp sea mist that had come rolling over the marshes'
The nursery, love, children; Arthur was no longer scared when in the nursery makes it seem like a place of safety
'there was nothing here to frighten or harm me'
The nursery; too orderly or meticulous, lacking in loving touches
'a neatly made bed and a curious air of sadness'
Monks piece, Christmas Eve , class; Kipps is satisfied with living at Monks piece, false sense of security, Londoners sense of superiority
'Monks pierce had been the happiest of homes'
The marshes, Nathanials death, Fear; the use of a child further exaggerates the sense of sadness in Jennet and the shear cruelty of Nathaniel's death
'the whinnying and struggling of the pony, the child's cry'
London, Revenge, Stella and Joseph death; positive description of London park, false sense of security
'There was a festive, holiday air about the place'
Negative Jennet Humfrey, Revenge, Death of Nathaniel; resorting of violence and hatred, death of Joseph
'filled with hatred and a desire for revenge'
Negative Jennet Humfrey, Death of Stella and Joseph, Revenge, Supernatural; no longer haunting Arthur after their death, argued to be embodied within Edward, impacts him negatively as he holds onto the memories to the rest of his life
'I had seen the ghost of Jennet Humfrye and she had had her revenge'
Susan Hill Betrayal quote
'There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we can never learn'
Supernatural; Arthur feels a sense of connection and communion with the ghost of Mrs Drablow
'that I was living in another dimension'
Negative Jennet Humfrey, Madness, Revenge, Betrayal; Jennet Humphrey so desperate for revenge she became mad with it
'She had been a poor, crazed, troubled woman, dead of grief and distress
The nursery, Supernatural, Fear, Isolation; Arthur is afraid of the noises he hears, assuming its the Woman in Black
'sat up paralysed, frozen'
Family lit crit, Scullion
'It offers a social critique of motherhood and contemporary rhetoric surrounding the family'
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