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Inquiry Question How does context affect a literary work Starter activity What do these different book covers tell you about the story within them What do we mean by Context Can be defined as ID: 655711

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Context and

The Woman in Black

Inquiry Question:How does context affect a literary work?

Starter activityWhat do these different book covers tell you about the story within them? Slide2

What do we mean by ‘Context’?

Can be defined as:

1. The time and place within which a text (in this case a novel) is written.

Other contextual details that are important:2. The author’s personal background3. The time and place that a novel is setSlide3

Context: Susan

Hill…

This, the first ghost story I wrote began as a challenge to myself. I decided I would see if I could bring off a full-length ghost story and I began by making a list of essential ‘ingredients.’ These included: 1 A haunted place. A lonely house or church 2. Atmosphere

3. Weather - fog or mist, dusk, twilight, drizzle… Slide4

4. A ghost - not as silly as it sounds. The ghost story is not necessarily a horror story and it must have a ghost, which is defined as the spirit of someone now dead which looks as they looked in life and which is seen by people still living.

Context: Susan

Hill

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Context: Susan Hill

5. The ghost must have a purpose - that seemed essential. There has to be a motive for the hauntings. It is not very interesting if a dark-robed monk walks through walls or a veiled lady drifts up and down a staircase frightening people but doing nothing much else and without any reason or purpose

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Victorians

Victorians were excellent at telling ghost stories and were fascinated in the idea of malicious character / person from history disrupting or terrorising the present. The Victorians were also intrigued by death and the possibility of an afterlife. Hill write a story in the tradition of the Victorian gothic and ghost stories, but she is a modern writer of the 21st century. Slide7

Chapter One: Christmas Eve

As we read Chapter One, annotate any sections or passages of the chapter that link to what you have learnt about the context of the novel so far.