The Woman In Black

• "Whistle and I'll come to you"
• "superstitions and tittle tattle were rife"
• Rural Urban Divide - superiority amongst Londoners
• Society thought men were supposed to be calm and logical, not showing emotions, a gender steryotype in which Kipps doesn't conform to
• Women were looked down on if they had a child out of wedlock
• St Jerome was a saint, famous for his fear of hell
• Sir Bedivere lost a limb in battle, foreshadowing Kipps journey and the damage he will go through
• Henry James - The Turn Of The Screw has very parallel themes, e.g vulnerable children, psychological terror and telling ghost stories
• Traditionally ghost stories told on Christmas Eve
• Susan Hill lost her own child at 5 weeks old, hence the death of many children
• Femme fatale - dangerous woman (Jennet Humpfrye)
• The sublime - deceivingly beautiful but dangerous (Eel Marsh House)
• Liminality - between 2 states of being (life/death, London/the north)
• 1st person narrative is emotional and personal for the reader
• • Frame narrative story within a story allows a flashback to heighten anxiety
• "excessively affected by the ways of the weather"
• "Not holding a prayer book"
• "Deepest black"
• "Malevolence" - wanting to cause harm or evil
• "My knees about to buckle beneath me"
• I prayed, direct and simple, passionate prayers
• Beckoning silver marshes, I had fallen under some sort of spell
• Of what could i be afraid in this beautiful spot?
• thinnest layer of flesh, strained across her bones
• pools of sulphurous yellow light... from some circle of the inferno
• i had been as bold and determined as a man could be
• he was courteous, business like
• feverish delusions and nightmares
• stood like some lighthouse or beacon
• fear in my breast.. paralysed
• i lost all sense of ordinary time and reality
• warm blooded and breathing in that cold, empty old house
• treated my gently and with as much care
• child's cry...scream of terror
• half hints and dark mutterings
• decayed and abandoned air
• comfort and safety, peace and reassurance
• a row of pale, solemn faces
• my head reeled at the shear and startling beauty
• i stumbled... grip my arm and support me