How Does The Writer Create Atmosphere In The Novel The Woman In Black E

How Does The Writer Create Atmosphere In The Novel The Woman In Black and the Short Story The Signalman?The Woman In Black and The Signalman are both of the same genrehorror/ghost stories. This genre is ideal to create a distinctatmosphere for the reader to be drawn into. The atmosphere the authorcreates for the reader is done so by mainly 2 things. Firstly, thecharacters, descriptions of supernatural presence, disbelief of thecharacter or bank clerk and their incredulity or confusion of conflict.Secondly, the square offting, the type of setting chosen is very importantand the way in which the author describes it also.When we pick up either of these stories we come to enquire certainfeatures from this genre. Both ghost stories have a derelict andisolated setting, very common in a ghost story. Also, many points areset in dark and enclosed spaces, where there is an inability to seeclearly. Descriptions are used a lot, especially descriptions ofdarkness, strangeness and coldness. In both stories, there is asupernatural presence that is for the most part unexplained, but issomething the narrator can both see and hear. There may be a sense ofevil, or the manifestation us one of unrest. It is up to the reader towork out the story surrounding the unnatural presence-sometimes at thesame time as the narrator if things are withheld from us. Anatmosphere of unrest, either from the supernatural presence, or thediscomfort from main characters, the narrator and even the reader iscreated. The setting creates an atmosphere of isolation and coldness.The emphasis on darkness and enclosure creates an atmosphere of unrestand confusion for the reader as well as the narrator. The atmosphereof ghostlin... ...k and the short story The Signalman, aswell as both being of the same genre, they also have othersimilarities. They both include a spectre within the story and this iswhat the stories are based around. The Signalman introduces non onlyghostliness but also death and mourning , this is similar to The WomanIn Black when the child dies and Arthur Kipps hears horrifying cries.They both have terrible reactions when a death is involved. TheSignalman feels he is in some way drawn into the main event, as doesArthur Kipps in the novel. The Signalman has to experience a death,which is torturous to him, but he cannot bankrupt it, as does Arthur inThe Woman In Black.As for the atmosphere in both these stories, the emphasis on thedescriptions of darkness, of the setting and of the charactersemotions and this helps the reader to feel what is going away on.