Throughout ‘The Woman in Black’ the theme of isolation is built upon throughout. One of the first times that the theme is explored in great depth is when Kipps is travelling on the train and “the cloud of cold, damp air… added to the chill of the compartment.” Here Hill uses the technique of pathetic fallacy to link the mood to the weather; it is very negative and Kipps is scared and alone. He doesn’t know what to do and there is no one there that can help him and answer any questions in which he way have. The fact that this is a “cloud” is almost metaphorical because of the amount of coldness felt is emphasised and exaggerated using hyperbole; it is trapping him and could be covering up things that he wants to know, adding to the mystery and isolation surrounding him as a character. The “compartment” also suggests that he is alone and trapped away from anything or anyone else which could make him feel more relaxed – Hill is purposely keeping him alone to give him the most unpleasant experiences possible to make the reader feel sympathetic, and from this point onwards in the chapter isolation then continues to build even further.
The theme of isolation plays a very big part in this story. Susan Hill uses several things in the novel to make a sense of isolation. These include places like El Marsh House itself, and Monk’s Piece. However, she also uses characters to make Arthur seem isolated, people like Mr Jerome, and Mr Bentley. As well as isolation in those senses, Arthur Kipps is also very emotionally isolated from his family’s happiness at the start of the novel, and is separated from other men by his traumatic experiences.
In the chapter called 'Across the Causeway', the writer creates tension by using an isolated burial ground, which makes the reader focus on the sense of isolation. The fact that Arthur Kipps is in an unknown, mysterious place accentuates tension, because the word "burial" makes us think about death and loneliness which creates apprehension and tension in the reader's mind. Also, the word "isolated" suggests that you're alone and this creates tension because it implies a feeling of discomfort and insecurity. Furthermore, the burial ground is described as "decayed", and this makes me think about a abandoned decomposing corpse, and this fact means that this place is not visited often and that it is in a state of total ruin. This idea is supported by the fact that this burial ground is "enclosed by the remains of walls".
Their special bond being together differentiates them from others. Similarly, after George shoots Lennie this relationship ends and longer George enabled to consider the pairing of them two that made him so special. “Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family…they don’t belong no place...” (13). Being
The weather is described as "raw" and the graveyard a "bleak" place. The "small bundle of shivers" is Pip himself, who is terrified by a "fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg." He is a desperate man, with broken shoes,as he grabs the orphan Pip. For safety, Pip holds onto the tombstone of his parent. In this cold, grey, desperate atmosphere Dickens introduces the main character and the convict who is later identified as Magwitch.
Arthur Kipps has been sent to Eel Marsh House to sort out Mrs. Drablow’s papers and estate after her death. He is unaware of the tragedy that has taken place there and is frustrated and irritated by the silence and refusal of anybody to answer any questions regarding Mrs. Drablow, extending the mystery. Mr. Daily whom he meets on the train hints at the bleakness of the place. When Kipps jokes about “telling strange tales of lonely houses”, he gave Kipps a look that made hum shudder at “the openness of his gaze”, this foreshadowing along with the “Alarm” and “Suspicion” of the landlord of the Griffin Arms when Kipps told him about his mission. The silence continues the next day at the funeral which Kipps attended with Jerome, the local solicitor, he also avoided answering Kipps questions and at the mention of the lady in black, Jerome “looked frozen pale his throat moving as if he was unable to utter” and when Kipps pointed her out during the service, he almost fainted.
Say he will be spared”. This shows that scrooge is a caring man who does have feelings inside but can’t show them. In stave 1 “red eyed” “blue lips” dickens is using cold imagery to show that scrooge has no feelings, scrooge is visited by his one and only friend, who died, he was visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley. Dickens has shown the belief that people had off the afterlife because he shows Jacob Marley in chains which are forged in life. In stave 1 it says that scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grapping, covets old sinner(page two) this means that scrooges is not very nice as he will not even give money to the charity.
Name Miss Connell English 1 (H) Due Date Loneliness in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men suggests that loneliness and isolation drive different social outsiders together. George is the first character in the novel to suggest that the loneliness itinerant ranch hands naturally face leads them to seek companionship. When he and Lennie settle in for the night before going to the Tyler Ranch, he says to Lennie, “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to.
This shows that the boys are unaware of the seriousness that the war brings, thus emphasizing that the title , “A Separate Peace” symbolizes the “separate peace” of Devon. When Gene visits Finny in the infirmary he says, “I did have this idea, this feeling that when you were standing there beside me, y—I don’t know, I had a kind of feeling. And this feeling doesn’t make any sense. So I just have to forget it. I just fell.” This quote shows that Finny could not imagine that his best friend would deliberately hurt him, so he pushes the unthinkable truth out of his mind, and forces himself to believe it was an
Troubles of Loneliness, Despair, and Nothingness in Old Age Silence, the absence of sound or noise may be all-too-familiar to some. The feelings accompanied by the silence may be good, but over a long time are enough to turn anyone crazy. It brings with itself loneliness, despair and simply nothing. These feelings are strong enough to drive someone to suicide as in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place “ by Ernest Hemingway. Both older characters feel loneliness, despair, and a sense of nothingness, and the only refuge they have is the café.