Arthur Kippps's Last Chapter
Naturally, as the final chapter in a gothic novel there is heightened tension, this tension is also strengthened by the chapter being also the title of the book; the whole novel has been building up to this point. Arthur Kipps has come back from Eel Marsh House and it seems almost as if he’s bought the problems home, as if he’s bought her own. Suddenly everything seems a lot more personal. There is also a sense of mortality, due to the Frame Narrative coming to a close. Susan Hill also switches been tenses multiple times and uses punctuation to make Arthur Kipps feel afraid of what happened. She also uses different methods such as specific verbs, adjectives, repetition and sentence structure to make the reader feel like Arthur Kipps in the final chapter
All through the first page he is doubting himself, using phrases such as, “I thought” and “I did not see”. Susan Hill also uses weaker forms of the words, for example, as an authority figure, the doctor could have ordered that he must not do anything instead he is “particularly anxious that I should not do anything.” The weaker forms of the words increase uncertainty and tension. The chapter …show more content…
This structure is used to make the reader feel like Arthur Kipps, it is abrupt and out of nowhere and the reader is not expecting just like the woman in black. Susan Hill also uses repetition in different forms to show Arthur’s disbelief and fear. Unlike before, the repetition of “I” makes the reader feel trapped and his disbelief is shown by his thoughts, “It was she, the woman in black with the wasted face, the ghost of Jennet Humpfrye.” Pronouns are also very insightful, apart from this sentence the entire chapter calls the woman in black “her” which shows that Arthur Kipps clearly knows who she is and has not forgotten or left it alone as much as he would like the reader to
All through the first page he is doubting himself, using phrases such as, “I thought” and “I did not see”. Susan Hill also uses weaker forms of the words, for example, as an authority figure, the doctor could have ordered that he must not do anything instead he is “particularly anxious that I should not do anything.” The weaker forms of the words increase uncertainty and tension. The chapter …show more content…
This structure is used to make the reader feel like Arthur Kipps, it is abrupt and out of nowhere and the reader is not expecting just like the woman in black. Susan Hill also uses repetition in different forms to show Arthur’s disbelief and fear. Unlike before, the repetition of “I” makes the reader feel trapped and his disbelief is shown by his thoughts, “It was she, the woman in black with the wasted face, the ghost of Jennet Humpfrye.” Pronouns are also very insightful, apart from this sentence the entire chapter calls the woman in black “her” which shows that Arthur Kipps clearly knows who she is and has not forgotten or left it alone as much as he would like the reader to