by melaniewp | Sep 30, 2013 | Analysis, AQA, English Literature, Exam Essays, GCSE, Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
‘The Funeral of Mrs Drablow’ starts on a positive note. Samuel Daily’s vehicle is as ‘capacious’ and ‘plush’ as anything Kipps has seen ‘in all my life’. In Kipps’ description of the inn, the word ‘capacious’ appears again. Though remote, Crythin Gifford is shown to...
by melaniewp | Sep 23, 2013 | Analysis, GCSE, Setting, Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
Is Crythin Gifford a real place? No. Susan Hill says she imagined the place being anywhere on the East Coast of England between Whitby/Scarborough and the Essex marshes. She does mention ‘Crewe’ but says in an interview that she just put this in...
by melaniewp | Sep 22, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, English Literature Exam, GCSE, The Woman in Black
Isolation is a key theme in The Woman in Black. Arthur Kipps is emotionally isolated from his family’s happiness at the start of the novel, and is set apart from other men by his traumatic experiences. Later in the novel, he is physically isolated from...
by melaniewp | Sep 18, 2013 | A-Level English, Analysis, Essays, GCSE, IB, IB English, IB Higher Level English, Margaret Atwood, Model Answers, Model Essays, The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale is Margaret Atwood’s dystopic vision of Christianity gone bad. The result is a society that has become a feminist nightmare. Get all A*/Level 7 Notes, essays and context for the novel aimed at A-Level and IB.Essays+ How does Atwood...
by melaniewp | Sep 18, 2013 | AQA, Controlled Assessment, English Literature Exam, GCSE, The Gothic, The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a gothic novel by Susan Hill set in the Nineteenth Century. The novel was actually written in the 1980s, so it is historical fiction, where Hill plays with the conventions of gothic novels to build a tense and moody atmosphere. Find out what...
by melaniewp | Sep 16, 2013 | AQA, Controlled Assessment, English Literature Exam, GCSE, The Woman in Black
How is the character of Arthur Kipps shown?1. Structural techniques that the author uses to present the main character: first person narration, framing narrative2. What do his relationships with, and attitudes to other characters show us about his nature – isolated,...
