Explore The Ways In Which Susan Hill Presents The Woman In Black

Explore the airs in which Susan pitchers mound presents the char in black. Before we realize the charwoman, Susan Hill uses the description of the view in A London Particular to foresee what she is like, predicting something wicked. London was exposit as Inferno full of red-eyed and demonic ghostly figures. These all suggest that Hill was describing or comparison London to nut house, which could imply that Mr Arthur Kipps was about to enter into his own personal hell, containing a ghostly figure of haunt and torment.Hill uses Londons filthy, evil smelling fog that choked and blinded the Londoners as a flair to pre-empt the sea mist that appears later in the novel, in The Sound of a Pony and Trap. They two engulfed their surroundings like a veil of mystery and suffering. The fog could have also suggested that Kipps was unaware of the Hell in his near future, he could not see what lay in front of him. There is a possibility the fog was a metaphor for the impending suffering and misfortune that lay ahead for Arthur Kipps.The Funeral of Mrs Drablow is a crucial chapter in the novel as this is the first time the woman is seen and mentioned. Kipps describes her as a woman dressed in the deepest black and wearing a bonnet which seemed to have gone out of personal manner, which suggests straight away that the woman is out of place, not only at the funeral, but also in that time period. Her clothes were a little rusty looking and this gives the impression that her clothes are ageing, which associate with her alienation from the rest of the funeral attendants.She is expound as having a terrible wasting disease with the thinnest layer of systema skeletale tautly stretched and strained across her bones. Her face was pathetically wasted peakly pale and gaunt with close to a blue-white sheen. This all gives a sense of a ghost, the whole portrayal sounding ghoulish. Kipps straight off lifes sympathy towards the woman, as he refers to her as a not incon empl acementrable former beauty and paltry thing. This is highly contrasted to how she was anticipated from the London setting.The womans haunting effect on her victims is shown through Mr Jerome and his reaction. Arthur Kipps had that mentioned her physical appearance,before Mr Jerome stopped dead. She has the power to scare a grown man to the core without organism seen. The woman seemed to bring inextricable memories to Jerome that leave him, frozen, pale and paralysed with absolute terror. This is also shown in the way Kipps acts in Christmas Eve. The thought of the woman sends him into a frenzy of agitation all those geezerhood later. The woman was an inextricable component of his past. She leaves her victims with a iniquity that is now woven into their very fibres.The woman next appears in the small burial chamber ground behind Eel Marsh House in Across The Causeway. Kipps became suddenly conscious of the extreme bleakness and eeriness of the burial ground. This gives the impre ssion that even before he sees the woman, Arthur is aware of the evil ambience that she brings with her. Hill uses the presentation of the unsettling setting and atmosphere in the burial ground, to show that her presence is overwhelming and she is a malignant character.Hill then goes on to describe the woman as one with a pallor not of flesh so much as bone itself. This shows that, similar to his feeling at the funeral, Kipps still pities the woman. However, this perception alters virtually instantly. He notices her expression of yearning malevolence. She looked as though she was searching for something she wanted, needed-must have. Here, Hill presents the malevolent side to the woman, unlike at the funeral, where Kipps sees the woman as a pathetic figure.She uses an immediate contrast between the way Kipps felt previously and the feelings he felt towards the woman in the burial ground, the pity to sheer horror in a matter of sentences. This is effective because it changes the fee l of the novel and it also links to the hellish setting of London in A London Particular. This same facial expression caused not only Arthurs mind but also his body, to become possessed and out of control. He had become paralysed by her aura. Hill uses the deep description about how Kipps is feeling as a strong way to create an ominous atmosphere.In In The Nursery, Kipps was lulled into a false sense of security before he entered the childs play room. He heard the noise within the room that meant comfort and safety the sound of the woody runners of a rockingchair. Hill uses the softness and sweetness of Arthurs memory to contradict the fear and shock he feels when he sees the nursery in shambles. The great difference between these two moods makes the obliteration of the nursery and the womans revenge more powerful and impactful.Susan Hill also presents the woman by using the support to foreshadow how she acts in the following chapter. The wildness, violence, strength and intensit y of the woman is shown through the thick cloud untruth low over the marshes, stronger wind and raw coldness.The womans yearning malevolence was at last fulfilled in A Packet of Letters when she turned the childs nursery from organism in much(prenominal) good order to a state of disarray. The demolition of the room was described as being caused by a gang of robbers which shows that the woman, who was originally portrayed as a frail, exceedingly pale young woman, suffering from some terrible wasting disease, had so much anger, such violence and hatred building inside her that she was able to conduct the same amount of destruction as a gang of brutal men, the clothes dragged out of the cupboard like entrails from a wounded body.The powerful imagery shows the woman as a vicious murder, bent on mad, senseless destruction. She was otiose to bear the fact that Nathaniel would never use the nursery again, and she was so bitter that after sixty years had passed, she was still causing h avoc.To conclude, Susan Hill presents the woman in black as the malicious ghost of a young spiteful woman full of hatred and hungry for revenge. She does this using contrast in atmosphere, bear and setting, as well as her appearance and actions throughout the novel. The actions of revenge she takes are ones of pain and suffering for others, she wishes for them to feel the same as she does. Her actions are understandable, but under no circumstances are they forgivable.