The Woman in Black Revenge Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
It was one of what I can only describe… as a desperate, yearning malevolence… (5.24)
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and the woman in black has definitely been scorned by someone. So expect some fury.
Quote #2
Moreover, that the intensity of her grief and distress together with her pent-up hatred and desire for revenge permeated the air all around. (11.72)
The woman in black wants to make someone, anyone pay for what she's been through—and she wants it so badly that it leaves a mark on the whole house.
Quote #3
But to harm who? Was not everyone connected with that sad story now dead? (11.73)
Come to think of it, Arthur has a point. Why is the woman in black still seeking revenge? It's not like there's anyone still around who directly wronged her. Can it really be called revenge if she's not hurting the people who hurt her.
Quote #4
"In some violent or dreadful circumstance, a child has died." (11.124)
Jennet's revenge is randomly killing the town's kids. Way harsh. And it doesn't even seem to make her feel better, since she does it over and over again.
Quote #5
There was nothing else the woman could do to me, surely, I had endured and survived. (11.146)
See that "surely"? That's two big, fat syllables of foreshadowing. When Arthur says "surely," we immediately know that the woman isn't done with him yet.
Quote #6
"You told me that night—" I took a deep breath to try and calm myself. "A child—a child in Crythin Gifford has always died." (12.6)
Arthur fears the woman in black will take revenge on the town because he happened to see her. He's both right and wrong—she's going to take revenge, but not on the townsfolk.
Quote #7
Her bitterness was understandable, the wickedness that led her to take away other women's children because she had lost her own, understandable too but not forgivable. (12.13)
Arthur gets it. He's a sensitive, modern man, and he can understand why Jennet is sad and bitter. But that doesn't mean he approves. (Especially when it's his child, we guess.)
Quote #8
There was no expression on her face and yet I felt all over again the renewed power emanating from her, the malevolence and hatred and passionate bitterness. It pierced me through. (12.24)
You seriously do not want to get on this ghost's bad side—if there's even a side that isn't bad. We're thinking not.