Assignment task: Please answer the following questions after viewing the film The Woman In Black and reading Chpt 2 of your textbook:
Here are the questions for this week, based on the film:
1. The story is set very firmly in Victorian times, with clear descriptions of daily life at that time. How does the historical setting add to the horror? Would a 'modern' version of The Woman in Black be as frightening?
2. Why do you think the narrator of the ghost story is someone who does not believe in ghosts? Does this affect how we respond to the story?
3. The author has chosen a woman as the central ghost figure - how is the concept of gender handled in the novel?