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Our theme is isolation:
1. “I tried not to sound concerned but was getting an unpleasant sensation of being isolated far from any human dwelling.”
Analyse: This quote explains that since Arthur was in the countryside he was starting to feel separated from human civilisation. He thinks this because he is so used to being around London where people are close together and it is a very populated city.
2. “Yet there is an air of remoteness and isolation which makes us feel ourselves to be much further from civilisation.”
Analyse: this quote shows that where Arthur lives is a place which makes it feel like they are further from civilisation than they really are. He states that the air plays a part on this affect.
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1. ‘My fear reached a new height, until for a minute I thought I would die of it, was dying, for i could not conceive of a man’s being able to endure such shocks and starts and remain alive, let alone in his right senses.’

-In this quote, Arthur describes how he could not comprehend how terrifying the object of his fear was and still be in his right mind.

2. “Mr Jerome looked frozen, pale, his throat moving as if he were unable to utter. At last, he managed to shake his head – I almost would say, that he shook himself, as though making an extreme effort to pull himself together after suffering a momentous shock, though the colour did not return to his face and the corners of his lips seemed tinged with blue.”

This quote comes after Arthur asking Mr Jerome about the Woman in Black, describing his reaction. It is obvious that Mr Jerome was deeply affected by the mention of the Woman in Black based off his reactions. At the end of the quote – “his lips seemed tinged with blue”, gives the impression that it was as if his heart had stopped beating.

3. ‘I do not know how long I stood there in fear and trembling and in dreadful bewilderment. I lost all sense because of time and ordinary reality. Through my head went a tumbling confusion of half-thoughts and emotions, visions of spectres and of real fleshy intruders, ideas of murder and violence, and all manner of odd, distorted fears.’

This reaction of Arthur occurs after he had discovered that the door to the nursery stood open. As is depicted in this quote, he was quite deeply affected and shaken by this, as his logical mind could not comprehend how the door had come to be open. The quote ‘I lost all sense of time and ordinary reality,’ displays Arthur's evident confusion at this event.

4. ‘I tried two or three times to stride across to her but each time I had to pull free abruptly for fear of going under myself...the poor dog was making choking noises now and rubbing her head against mine over and over, no doubt both terrified and also in great pain.’

-This extract shows that Arthur and Spider were both terrified of drowning in the the mud and even after both freeing themselves and avoiding death, they still were left in shock of the experience.

5. “I sweated, I turned and turned about, trying to free myself from the nightmares, to escape from my own semi-conscious sense of dread and foreboding, and all the time, piercing through the surface of my dreams...I stood, helpless in the mist, though I could not see, only sense her dark presence, hovered the woman.”

This quote shows Arthur, trying to sleep after seeing the Woman in Black for the second time. He recalls the scene in his mind as nightmares. We can see that Arthur is slowly losing is rationality and mortified of the Woman in Black as he concedes finally that she is non-human.

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Isolation

1. “we appeared to have stopped in the middle of open country...feeling an unpleasant sensation of being isolated, far from any human dwelling, and trapped in this cold tomb of a railway carriage..”
This is the first sign of isolation in the novella, it shows us how Arthur feels queasy and unpleasant at the sensation of being so far away from society as we can see through the quote “I felt an unpleasant sensation of being isolated, far from any human dwelling. “
2. “We had traveled perhaps three miles, and passed no farm or cottage, no kind of dwelling house at all, all was emptiness.”
This quote shows how isolated eel marsh house is, it is very devoid of life and humanity as we can see from “no kind of dwelling house at all, all was emptiness.”

3. “How one old woman had endured day after day, night after night, of isolation in this house, let alone for so many years, I could not conceive.”
This quote demonstrates that Arthur has deep feelings for isolation and find isolation of the house unbareable and can’t understand how Mrs Drablow has done so for all those years.

4. “I had never been quite so alone, nor felt quite so small and insignificant in a vast landscape before...”
This quote shows us how Arthur feels tiny and insignificant when isolated, this quote shows how quite isolated Arthur is as he has never seen such a vast landscape nor felt so alone.

5. I could see for miles. There was no sign at all of the woman in black nor any place in which she could have concealed herself.
This quote shows how isolated Arthur is and also the theme of supernatural and how the woman in black could not have hidden because of how isolated they are, showing that she is supernatural.

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Fear:
1.  "I wanted to banish the chill that had settled upon me and the sensation of fear in my breast.  Yet I could not move, it had, for the moment, paralysed me, just as it had always done, it was long forgotten, one too-familiar sensation."

This quote is saying that Arthur was feelingbso overwhelmed with fear that he felt he could not control himself emotionally.  He's demeanour changed from being calm to reckless, and fearful.  From the text "it was a long forgotten, once too familiar sensation."  We can see that he has experienced the same great amount of fear before.

2.  "...my heart pounding, my breath short.  I had walked about in a frenzy of agitation, and now, realising that I must make an effort to calm myself, I sat down on a piece of old moss covered stone, and began to take deliberate, steady breaths..."

This extract from the text shows that Arthur had become so fearful he started having a panic attack and became hysterical.  He was also confused as to why he felt this way and became agitated at himself.

Supernatural

1.  "There was no child.  I knew that.  How could there be?  Yet how could I lie here and ignore even the crying of some long-dead ghost."

This extract depicts when Arthur realised that the pony and trap, the screams of the child and even the woman in Black was not a reality but ghostly figure haunting him.  The author has used short sentences and rhetorical questions to prove her point and Arthur's reaction and train of thought.

2. " I had simply the absolutely certain sense of someone just having passed close to me and gone away down the corridor"

This shows that a ghostly figure was indeed haunting him and he felt a presence near even though he stated before he was alone in the house besides Spider.  He had not heard footstep, or heard/seen anything that indicated a living person in the house.

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our theme is FEAR;

1) “What I heard next chilled and horrified me.”
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2)”...almost weeping in an agony of fear and frustration.”
- this shows that Arthur is in extreme physical or mental suffering. He is scared and frustrated bout what had happened.

3)”I sat paralyised, frozen, in the bed, conscious only of the dog and the prickling of my own skin.”
- Arthur is not sure what to do. This shows that Arthur is scared of what is about to come. He frozen in fear, not knowing what to do; does he go towards the sound or does he run? He is fearing the next few minutes of his life and is terribly scared. He can’t think straight as seen through the phrase “conscious only of” which suggests that he is only able to think about his fear.

4)”I was shaken and my heart beat uncomfortably fast within me...it took some time for me to find sufficient courage to enable me to open the bedroom door...”
This quote demonstrates that Arthur is experiencing extreme fear. In the quote it says that it took awhile for Arthur to gather enough courage to leave the bedroom. The fact that he needed courage meant that he was scared because courage is the ability to do something that frightens you. This suggests that whatever the noise is, and whatever is making the noise has frightened Arthur to the point of not even wanting to leave the room. The word “shaken” and the phrase “heart beating uncomfortably fast” demonstrates that Arthur is scared because these are the typical symptoms people show when they are scared. Their heart beats faster because their body is preparing for fight or flight. Their heart rate increases to pump more blood to their muscles and brain. This demonstrates that Arthur is experiencing fight or flight symptoms out of fear.

5)”I think i might have stood there in bewilderment and terror, all night or else take to my heels...”
This quote demonstrates that Arthur is so overcome with fear that his fight or flight adrenaline has kicked in and he is contemplating runnng away. He is so scared as seen through the word “terror” which signifies extreme fear.

6) “I do not know how long I stood there in fear and trembling and in dreadful bewilderment. I lost all sense of time and ordinary reality.... and all matter of odd, distorted fears”
This quote suggests that Arthur is filled with fear because he has lost all sense of reality. He is so consumed by fear that he can’t tell what is real and what is a figment of his imagination

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Fear - Fabiana Velezmoro and Emma Runyon

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“With mortal dread and terror of spirit,”
Arthur was scared by a past event which at this point of the story we did not know about yet. He dreaded it with his mortality and spirit, so we can infer that this had shaken him to the core.

“I knew that I should have no rest from it, that I should lie awake in a cold sweat,”
He knew that the woman had scared him so much that he would have no sleep, no escape from the darkness in his mind.

“Although I was in control of my emotions now, I dreaded the hours of darkness that lay ahead”
Despite his best efforts to have a grip on his mind, he knew that he would not be able tomaintain  the barrier he had created

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Out theme is fear:

1. “Never known myself gripped and held by such dread and horror and apprehension of evil.”
Analyse: this quote shows that Arthur was suprised how much fear he was in. He says he has never experienced this amount of fear before.
2. “I turned and turned about trying to top free myself from the nightmares to escape from my own semi-conscious sense of dread and foreboding.”
Analyse: this quote shows that Arthur is being haunted by his experiences with the woman in black and the surroundings of eel marsh house. He says he is trying to stop himself from being in a state of fear.

3.”what i heard next chilled and horrified me. I could neither understand or account for it.”
Analyse: this quote shows how the noises of eel marsh house are affecting Arthur. Since Arthur hears only noises it is reasnobaly harder to identify what is making the noises. He cannot figure out why these noises are appearing.

4. “I began to yell until I thought my lungs would burst and then to run foward but then stopped.”
Analyse: this quote explains that arthur is in such a state of fear that he begains to shout and run away from the cause of his fear. He does not think about losing breath because he has to get away from the unpleasant event.

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1. “I turned and turned about trying to free myself from the nightmares to escape from my own semiconscious sense of dread and foreboding,”.

-This extract from the text portrays the fear that Arthur senses whilst he attempts to sleep and forget about the terrible day he has had. We understand that Arthur is scared here as there is nothing to physically harm him yet his own semiconscious mind has created an illusion of the need to fear his thoughts.

2. “I tried not to think about the matter at all but, with the very last of the energy that I could already feel draining out of me rapidly, i turned and began to run, to flee from the graveyard and the ruins and to put the woman at as great a distance behind as I possibly could. I concentrated everything on my running, hearing only the thud of my own body on the grass, the escape of my own breath. And I did not look back.”

-This extract from the text portrays the fear that Arthur has when he gains an insight into the fact that the woman may not be human. Arthur is filled with a great sense of fear that he decides that the only reasonable action would be to run away from the woman and her reign of terror.

3. “I pray that you do not” Mr Jerome said, and he held onto my hand with a sudden fierce grip as he shook it. “I pray you do not”.

-This extract from the text portrays the fear that grips Mr Jerome when he remembers the woman in black and the thoughts of fear that she brings upon him. Prior to this we knew that Mr Jerome was already scared of the woman and her effect on him was intense. Susan Hill uses repetition in this sentence to show how terrified Mr Jerome is and how he repeats himself to emphasize and convey his point to Arthur about how he cares that he does not see the woman again.

4. “What I heard next chilled and horrified me, even though I could neither understand nor account for it.”

-This extract from the text is a prime example of how Susan Hill has the ability to give the reader an accurate and descriptive representation of how Arthur is feeling and how fearful he is. This quote show that even though Arthur can not see what is horrifying him to an extreme extent that he can hear it and that is enough to chill him.

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1. “Yet they had been, in some sense I did not understand, unreal, ghostly, things that were dead.”

-This quote shows the supernatural elements of this novella as it explains how Arthur has never experienced supernatural elements to this extent. The words used here show how The occurring events are beyond comprehension and Arthur can’t understand.

2. “A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable, threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity,”

-This citation from the text shows that the supernatural themes at the current time of this extract were highly extreme and so inexplicable that it fears Arthur to such an immense standard that  he believes that it threatens his safety.

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1. “I simply stared in incredulity and astonishment, then in cold fear. I was paralysed, rooted to the spot in which I stood, and all the world went dark around me and shouts and happy cries of all the children faded.”
This quote demonstrates that Arthur was feeling such immense terror that he was paralysed “rooted to the spot in which I stood” and unable to move. Additionally, the fear was so intense it overpowered his surroundings, and blocked out all noise and light, plunging his world in to darkness.

2. “My fear reached a new height, until for a minute I thought I would die of it, was dying, for I could not conceive of a man being able to endure such shocks and starts and remain alive, let alone in his right senses.”
This quote shows us that Arthur had now reached a new height of fear, a fear where he felt as if he would die as the terror was so immense. He felt as if he would die of the fear or go insane because of it.

3. “...had caused my fears to mount to such a height that I had lost control of myself and my senses and fallen unconscious.”
- This quote demonstrates that Arthur’s fear had reached the maximum height of fear that a human being could consciously endure, therefore his brain, in order to protect his sanity, caused him to black out.

4. “I stood absolutely helpless in the mist that clouded me and everything from my sight, almost weeping in fear and agony...”
- This quote shows us that Arthur was feeling such fear that he was almost crying. This is unusual as grown men usually do not get close to crying therefore the fear he was feeling must have been extremely intense.

5. Mr jermone looked frozen, pale, his throat moving as if he were unable to utter... as though making an extreme effort to pull himself together after suffering momentous shock
- this quote suggests that from Mr Jerome’s actions of being unable to talk, and almost being paralysed with shock. Is that he was fully petrified with what Arthur had told him. He was so shocked that he couldn’t move nor talk, he seemed as if his whole body was full of terror.

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Another one, our theme is fear:
1. “Never known myself gripped and held by such dread and horror and apprehension of evil.”
Analyse: this quote shows that Arthur was suprised how much fear he was in. He says he has never experienced this amount of fear before.
2. “I turned and turned about trying to top free myself from the nightmares to escape from my own semi-conscious sense of dread and foreboding.”

3.”what i heard next chilled and horrified me. I could neither understand or account for it.”

4. “I began to yell until I thought my lungs would burst and then to run foward but then stopped.”

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our theme is ISOLATION;

1- ‘I tried not to sound concerned, but was feeling an unpleasant sensation of being isolated far from any human dwellings.’
- this suggests that Arthur is feeling isolated and far from a village with numerous people. Although he has Mr Daily with him Arthur is feeling no sense of connection and feels alone on this train ride.

2- “...About that evenings incident nothing whatsoever was said, though she wore an anxious expression and I had to invent a bad bout of acute indigestion to account for my abrupt behaviour.”
- This quote demonstrates that Arthur’s experiences have left him so isolated from his family that he can’t even bring himself to share it with them. It is like his experiences have created a wall that separates him from his family. His experiences have made him who he is and he can’t find a way to express his emotions in order to do them justice. He feels like he has to deal with his experiences alone.

3- “I began to feel set apart from them all, an outsider to their circle. I was trying to... hold back the rising flood of memory.”
-this quote suggests that Arthur’s experiences have left him isolated from his family. He is not physically isolated as he is surrounded by his family, but he is emotionally isolated because his experiences set him apart from his innocent relatives. They haven’t experienced what he has and therefore they can’t relate to him. He is alone.

4- “toward the very edge of the world.”
- this quote shows that Arthur is isolated because he feels that he is so far from human civilsation that he is almost on another planet because he is on the ‘edge of the world.’ He feels like he has travelled so far from where he started and is so far from human companionship. He is completely isolated far from people.

5- “I had never been quite so alone, nor felt quite so small”
- This quote demonstrates that Arthur feels isolated because he feels alone. This suggests that he feels separated from other humans. When people are isolated they are more vulnerable. This is supported by the quote “never felt so small” which suggests that he is feeling defenceless and vulnerable because the word ‘small’ is associated with fear and vulnerability.

6) “...all I heard was the sound of my own footsteps...across the sky a few last gulls went flying home.”
- The fact that Arthur can only hear his own footsteps suggests that he is isolated because everything is quite and undisturbed by any other living thing. When it says that the gulls flew away this demonstrates that not even the animals are staying. Arthur is completely alone and isolated.

7- “yet there was is an air of remoteness and isolation which makes us feel ourselves to be much further from civilisation”
- this suggests that even though Arthur is close to people, he himself has never felt so far from others. The air is still an he feels alone and remote from others.

our theme is SUPERNATURAL;

1- “I had not even heard a footstep. I had simply the absolutely certain sense of someone just having passed close to me and gone away down the corridor.”
This quote demonstrates the theme supernatural because the event is inexplicable. Arthur knows that he would have heard a footstep or felt someone if there had been anyone passing close to him down the corridor, yet he feels that there was someone even  though that person’s presence can’t be explained. He can sense it but he can’t explain it which is supernatural. He feels as if someone is there but he is all along, if you don’t count the dog. How is it possible for someone to be here what the tide is in and keckwick has not come through.

2- “...the door which had been securely locked, so that I had not beenable  to break it down, the door to which there could not be a key- that door was now standing open. Wide open.”
This quote demonstrates that there are supernatural happenings at Eel Marsh House because similarly to the above quote, this can’t be explained. Arthur had tried to open the door and fail and noone  else is in the house, something that is locked does not open Maraculesly.
This is unexplainable

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THEME: ISOLATION

1. “Toward the very edge of the world”
Referring to the idea of solitariness. The edge fo the world is an often saying that makes the reader infer that they are close to being in a complete void.

2. “No kind of dwelling house at all, all was emptiness”
This place was devoid from human beings. It’s was empty and any civilisation that had once lived there was visibly gone.

3. “Rural emptiness for many miles”
It was barron and dead for miles, no glimpse of light could be seen. This tells us that on the train Arthur was going into an empty dead place.

4. “Isolated far from any human dwelling, and trapped in this cold tomb of a railway carriage”
No people were around and Arthur was by himself. He was trapped in this jail of isolation and is being driven further and further from people he knows.

5. “...when you live alone...”
This quote helps us understand that Mrs Drablow lived alone in isolation and now Arthur has to work in this same isolation.

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1. “I turned and turned about trying to free myself from the nightmares to escape from my own semiconscious sense of dread and foreboding,”.

-This extract from the text portrays the fear that Arthur senses whilst he attempts to sleep and forget about the terrible day he has had. We understand that Arthur is scared here as there is nothing to physically harm him yet his own semiconscious mind has created an illusion of the need to fear his thoughts.

2. “I tried not to think about the matter at all but, with the very last of the energy that I could already feel draining out of me rapidly, i turned and began to run, to flee from the graveyard and the ruins and to put the woman at as great a distance behind as I possibly could. I concentrated everything on my running, hearing only the thud of my own body on the grass, the escape of my own breath. And I did not look back.”

-This extract from the text portrays the fear that Arthur has when he gains an insight into the fact that the woman may not be human. Arthur is filled with a great sense of fear that he decides that the only reasonable action would be to run away from the woman and her reign of terror.

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Supernatural
1.  Chapter 5 pg 80
I did not believe in ghosts. Or rather until this day, I had not done so and whatever stories I had heard I had, like most rational, sensible young men, dismissed as nothing more than stories indeed.

This quote shows us that after 5 chapters, Arthur is changing from his rational commonsensical self to a man who believes in ghosts, even though he thought he never would. Through the quote we can tell that Arthur is speaking in past tense and referring to that he had never believed in ghosts until that day, showing us that Arthur had been shaken and broken down by the supernatural things that had been happening to him, making him change his mind.

2. “ It seems to me, Mr daily” I said, “that I have seen whatever ghosts haunts eel marsh house and that burial ground”

This quote shows us that Arthur, even though he had come to terms with the ghosts in eel marsh house and the marsh that surrounds it he still can’t fully comprehend or get his head around the fact that there are ghosts and is still looking for a rational reason behind this whole thing, we can see this through who Arthur is still speaking very calmly and rationally about the ghosts, through words like “it seems to me”. Where as someone who truly believed in the supernatural would be scared out of their mind and not talking about their ghostly experiences in such a calm way.

3. The haunting, strange beauty of it all aroused a deep response within me. I could not run away from that place, I would have to go back to it, not now, but soon, I had fallen under some sort of spell.

This quote shows supernatural elements through words like spell and haunting. Arthur feels drawn to the marshes and feels as if he is under some sort of spell, this shows a sense of supernatural because spells and such are supernatural. This quote highlights that there are supernatural things around Arthur that he cannot explain.

4. The way to banish an old ghost that continues its hauntings is to excorsise it. Well mine should be excorsised too.

This quote shows how Arthur has had a supernatural occurrence in his past and now believes in ghost compared to the rational man who he use to be. This experience now haunts him and he believes he has to exorcise it.

5. I had a sense of foreboding about my journey to come, that some sixth sense , some telepathic intuition that may lie dormant.

This quote is evident of supernatural themes as it shows myths such as a sixth sense, and telepathic intuition are both types of mental powers that are made up or seen in fictional stories

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1.  "...yet there is an air of remoteness and isolation which makes us feel ourselves to be much further from civilisation."

This refers to the feeling of feeling alone and further from everyone else than what seems necessarily.  They were in reality only 2 miles away from a large village and 7 miles away from the main marketplace.    It shows that Monk's Piece had a feeling of being quite secluded and isolated as it was surrounded by nature.  The quote uses language devices such as imagery to allow readers to imagine what it would be like to be in their shoes.

2.  "Certainly, I felt loneliness, for in spite of the speechless Keckwick and shaggy brown pony I felt quite alone, outside that gaunt, empty house."

This shows that he felt alone even though he had company due to the environment he was in. By using the words 'gaunt' and 'empty' the author has made readers feel a sense of emptiness and foreboding in this atmosphere.

3.  "It stood like some lighthouse or beaconor Martello tower, facing the whole, wide expanse of the marsh and estuary, the most astonishing situated house I had ever seen or could ever conceivably have imagined, isolated, uncompromising but also, I thought, handsome." Pg 72

The author has made the house seem as if it was alone in the middle of nowehere. By using the the text 'it stood like some lighthouse,' it makes it seem as if the house was isolated from everyone and surrounded by nothingness. The author has also used the word 'isolated' to give the house a sense of emptiness and loneliness.

4.  " Towards the very edge of the world"

This refers to the idea of being so far away from civilisation that it feels like they are nearing to the end of the world (civilisation).

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1. “...and she appeared and then vanished in a way that surely no real, living, freshly human being could possibly manage to do.”
This  quote contains supernatural themes through the use of language that suggests the woman is intangible and not real.

2. “...and yet she had not looked in any way, as I had imagined a traditional 'ghost' was supposed to."
This quote uses the word ghost as a well known concept, “traditional ghost”. We can infer that the author assumed the readers would know what a “traditional ghost” looks like, therefore not having to go into description.  This quote suggests that Arthur still did not quite believe that she was a ghost, and not wanting to. He seems to be looking for an explanation in anything to why she is appearing and who/what she is.

3. “Such a place would breed marsh monsters and creatures of the deep and Jack oLanterns by the cart-load.”
This is supernatural through the use of the reference to creatures and monsters - "marsh monsters and creatures of the deep". Also, the Halloween theme in the jacks lanterns is not supernatural but horror so the supernatural theme doesn’t apply to that section of the quote - "jack o lanterns by the cart.".

4. “ I had no doubt, ghostly...she had a ghostly impression....something immanting from her still, silent presence.”
This quote shows the supernatural theme through the use of the word
"Ghostly" and "Ghostly impression". This is supernatural for people that do not  believe in ghosts, and refers to the woman being a ghost.

5. “I did not believe in ghosts. Or rather until this day I had not done so.”
This quote show that narrator didn’t believe in ghosts but after the encounter at Eel March house he is not so sure. The words “rather until this day I had not done so” shows that he was starting to believe in the supernatural.

Isolation

1. "We had travelled perhaps three miles and passed no farm or cottage, no kind of dwelling house at all, all was empty"
This quote effectively shows the theme of isolation. The fact that they had gone more than three miles without passing any evidence of civilisation, shows that the area they are travelling to is very isolated from other civilised place, and very out of the way.

2. "How one old women had endured day after day, night after night, of isolation in this house, let alone for so many years, I could not conceive. "
This quote clearly shows the theme of isolation as it shows how Mrs Drawblow lived alone “day after day” and”night after night”. It show how she was isolated from the rest of the world in this house

3. "I gather she had no friends - or immmediate family - that she was something of a recluse....turn inwards - grow eccentric. I supposed it comes from living alone.”
This quote shows the theme of isolation effectively as it shows how Mrs Drablow was a recluse and how she was isolated as she had no friends or family. It also shows how she was isolated as from thequote  “I supposed it comes from living alone” showing that she didn’t really have an human interaction.

4. “I realised that this must be the Nine Lives Causeway...How long will the causeway remain passable?”
This quote shows how the Nine Lives Causeway isolates Eel March House from the rest of the world.

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1. “ For the combination of the perculiar, isolated place and the sudden appearance of the woman and the dreadfulness of her expression began to fill me with fear.” Pg 75
This quote shows the reader the theme of fear. In the quote, Arthur is telling the audience what is going through his mind in the terms of the previous events that had just occurred. Hill uses words such as “began to fill me with fear” to give the reader an insight into Arthur’ mind and his impression of the Woman in Black.

2. “Mr Jerome grabbed my wrist and held it in an agonisingly tight grip, and, looking at his face, was certain that he was about to faint, or collapse with some kind of seizure.” Pg 58
This quote gives the impression of the theme of fear. The quote tells us that Mr Jerome was filled with so much fear that he took it out physically on Arthur. Hill used words such as “held it in an agonisingly tight grip” to show us that he was so frightened of what ever it was that was making him feel fear.

3. “In spite of my intense fear and sense of shock, I was consumed with the desire to find out exactly who it was that I had seen.” Pg 78
This quote gives the impression of the theme fear. This quote tells us that Arthur is extremely scared and filled with fear as he says “ In spite of my intense fear” telling and showing us that he was completely consumed by fear but also curiousity for the unknown.

4. “ I stood absolutely helpless in the mist that clouded me and everything from my sight, almost weeping in agony of fear and frustration.” Pg 88
This quote shows the theme of fear as Arthur was standing still as if he was frozen and couldn’t see anything ahead of him. He was filled with agonising ‘fear and frustration.’

5. “What I heard next chilled and horrified me, even though I could neither understand nor account for it.” Pg 87
This quote shows the theme of fear. This quote tells the reader that Arthur was horrified. This is proven through the part “ What I heard next chilled and horrified me.”  This quote shows us that Arthur didn’t know what he was hearing and couldn’t account for it. The sound was unknown so this filled Arthur with despair.

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1. ‘She had a ghostly pallor, and a dreadful expression, she wore clothes that were out of keeping with the styles of the present day; she had kept her distance from me, and she had not spoken.’

This is a very chilling and unnerving description of the inexplicable appearance of the woman. The passage describes the woman as supernatural, through the use of descriptive language such as her having ‘a ghostly pallor’.

2. ‘Yes I had a story, a true story, a story of haunting and evil, fear and confusion, horror and tragedy.’

-This extract from the book implies that Arthur, earlier in life, had a true, mortifying encounter with something supernatural that he does not wish to burden anyone with.

3. ‘Something emanating from her still, silent presence, in each case by a grave, had communicated itself to me so strongly that I felt indescribable repulsion and fear.’

This quote shows that the appearance of the woman had affected even-headed Arthur very strongly, and negatively, causing him to experience ‘indescribable repulsion and fear’.

4. “She was extremely pale, only the thinnest layer of flesh was tautly stretched and strained across her bones, so that it gleamed with a curious, blue-white sheen, and her eyes seemed sunken back into her head.”

This passage uses extremely descriptive language as it describes the Woman in Black as Arthur sees her for the first time. The description gives off a negative effect as it describes her to be like a skeleton or ghost, with all her life drained out of her causing a “blue-white sheen”.

5. ‘I began to suspect that the pony trap that I heard on the marsh, the pony trap with the child who had cried out so terribly...they, too had not been real, not there, present, not substantial, but ghostly also.’

-This passage, from Arthur’s perspective, shows that Arthur has come to a conclusion about the creepy, weird sounds heard in the mist. He now believes that the pony trap and child were from the past.

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Our theme is supernatural:
1. “Her appearance even in the limpid sunshine and comparitive warmth and birghtness outdoors was so pathetically wasted.”
Analyse: this quote explains that the so called woman in black has the most pale face, even the sunlight cannot brighten it. It also states her face was quite damaged, not taken care of.

2. “Who was she - or what - and how she had vanished such questions I did not ask myself.”
Analyse: this shows that the way she had vanished almost calssifies her as not being human. Arthur states that he does not want to question to himself, why she vanished or how.
3. “I did not belive in ghosts. Or rather until this day I had not done so.”
Analyse: this quote shows that before the events of the woman in black took place Arthur was commonsensical. The appearance woman in black made him start to question the theme of ghosts.
4. “She had a ghostly pallor and dreadful expression, she wore clothes that were out of keeping with the styles of the present day.”
Analyse: this quote suggests that the woman in black is not from the present day. This is because of the out of date clothes she chose to wear. It suggests, she could have cane back from the dead. It also states her appearance is ghostly.

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Fear:
1. “never known myself gripped and held fast by such dread and horror and apprehension of evil.” - This quote shows how frightened he was through the descriptive words used. The phase, “held fast by dread and horror” tells us that the scene in front of Arthur is so terrifying and daunting that he can do nothing but stand there. “Apprehension of evil” gives us the impression that something wicked and bad is coming.

2. “I could not bear to stay there, for fear, but nor had I any strength left in my body to turn and run away” - This quote reveals how affected he was by the sight of the woman that he was unable to move. The quote, “ I could not bear to stay there, for fear” shows how alarming and horrifying the sight must be Arthur to want to “turn and and run away”.  The quote, “nor I had any strength left in my body” shows how Arthur was so afraid and fearful that he was frozen and could not move. So shocked was he that he could not find the strength to move away.

3. “I stood absolutely helpless in the mist that clouded me and everything from my sight, almost weeping in agony of fear and frustration” - Arthur was so terrified because he just stood there not doing anything to help himself ‘I stood absolutely helpless’. Arthur was so terrified because he couldn’t see anything thorough the mist that he weeped because of fear and frustration ‘weeping in agony of fear and frustration.

4.”free myself from the nightmares, to escape from my own semi-conscious sense of dread and foreboding” - This quote shows how much the experience of Eel Marsh house and the woman in black was affecting her.  The words, “free myself from the nightmares” shows how his nightmares were so horrifying and frightening that he was compelled to try and escape them. The phrase “my own semi-conscious sense of dread and foreboding” shows his fear towards the woman, the house, and the marshes.

5.”these other matters were altogether more terrifying, because they were intangible and inexplicable, incapable of proof and yet so deeply affecting” - this quote shows how terrified Arthur was of the matters that couldn’t be explained. Arthur is a very rational man that doesn’t like things that can’t be explained. This is seen through ‘altogether more terrifying’. He thinks that his experience is more frightening than any other because he can not explain what ahd happened and can’t be proved to be real. Arthur’s experiences with the unexplainable and the intangible affects him more deeply than any other experiences he have had.

Supernatural:
1. ‘She had appeared and then vanished in a way that surely no real, living, fleshly human being could possibly manage to do.’ - this quote tells us the the woman is supernatural because she appeared out of nowhere then disappeared all the same. ‘She had appeared and then vanished’. Arthur also thinks that because she appeared and vanished so suddenly that she must be supernatural and can’t possibly be a living human. ‘No real, living, fleshly human being’.

2. ‘There was no visitor, or at least no human visitor’ -

3. ‘How could I lie here and ignore even the crying of some long dead ghost?’ -

4. ‘She was not a real, living, breathing human being’ - This quote shows how the woman in Black was supernatural as she was described as “not a real, living , breathing human being”. This description gives an impression of a dead, ghost-like human.

5. ‘I have seen whatever ghosts haunts El Marsh and that burial ground’ - this quote tells us that Arthur has seen ‘I have seen’ the ghost that haunts El Marsh House and the burial ground. This tells us that he believes in th supernatural otherwise he wouldn’t think that he saw a ghost.