Evil in "The Woman in Black"

... mpatient of the half hints and dark mutterings made by grown men at the mention of Mrs Drablow and her propertyö. Kipps believes countrymen to be more superstitious, more gullible, unsophisticated and primitive compared to the cosmopolitans. The plot progresses to Kipps travelling in the pony and trap to Eel Marsh House. To get there he crosses the Nine Lives Causeway whose name is symbolic. The events become more frightening as the story progresses. Kipps describes the surroundings of Eel Marsh House , ôTo the east, sea and sky had darkened slightly to a uniform leaden grey. The wind that came suddenly snaking off the estuary was coldö. He describes the ruins of an ancient chapel ôall broken-down and crumblingö. Then the fright of a bird with lots loudly beating wings and a harsh croaking cry, ôit was an ugly, satanic-looking thing!ö He describes the burial ground and the effect it has on him ôSuddenly conscious of the cold and the extreme bleakness and eeriness of the spot and of the gathering dusk of the November afternoonö. Kipps then saw the woman with the wasted face. Through the desolation and despair, the writer creates anxiety and the reader becomes more agitated and fraught. By the chapter ôThe sound of a pony and trapö, the reader is experiencing evil. Kipps believes Keckwick died in the marshes. ôI stood absolutely helpless in the mist that clouded me and everything from my sight, I knew that I was hearing beyond any doubt, appalling last noises of a pony and trap being sucked into the quicksandsö. Many of the sinister events took place at night such as the incident in the nursery, when Kipps was woken by Spider the dog. ôThere were no footsteps, no creaking floorboards, the air was absolut ...