Woman in Black style of writing

Woman in Black style of writing

1. First person

   • Written so reader can see it from his point of view
   • Reader can see the story grown
   • Can see Alice and Jennet's point of view when Arthur goes through the letters

2. Pathetic Fallacy

   • The weather often reflects the mood/human emotions of the characters.
   • Sea frets, mists and howling winds add to Arthurs fears when he's at Eel Marsh House.
   • ‘My spirits have for many years now been excessively affected by the ways of the weather.’
     • From the begining we learn the weathers important to Arthur
   • London fog known as 'London Peasouper’
   • Weather sets the tone for Arthurs journey to Crythin Gifford

3. Imagery

   • Creates image in readers mind
   • Metaphore
     • Something is something else
     • That great cavern of a railway station’ (pg. 33)
       • is like saying that King’s Cross Station is an enormous cave.
   • Simile
     • compares something by saying it is AS or LIKE something else
     • ‘It was a mist like a damp, clinging cobwebby thing.’ (pg. 85)
       • Saying the mist attached itself to Arthur like a cobweb.
   • Personification
     • Gives human qualities to something not human
     • ‘The wind will blow itself out and take the rain off it by morning,’ (pg. 35)
       • Samuel Daily says to Arthur making the wind and rain sound almost like a human couple.

4. Foreshadowing

   • Hill gives clues to the reader that suggest ideas/themes or things that might happen later in the story
   • Lots in the opening chapter which hints to the reader that the novel will feature supernatural events
   • “I was then thirty-five and I had been a widower for the past twelve years. I had no taste at all for social life and, although in good general health, was prone to occasional nervous illnesses and conditions, as a result of the experiences I will come to relate.” (pg. 4)