How Does Susan Hill Use Language

Coursework Essay:How do the writers use language and structure to present ideas about power and strength?In the extract Whistle and I’ll Come to You we see the writer, Susan Hill exploiting the uses of literary devices, such as zoomorphism to highlight power in her story. She displays an idea of the wind being like a “lion,” this animal conveys the symbolism of power. She applies this to emphasize to her audience that the wind has more power than the narrator (who is an unreliable witness). Susan Hill utilizes the use of personification and structural features to exhibit the narrator along with the wind having dynamic conflicts. We see the wind being described as a “banshee” which gives a depth of aural imagery; banshees are witches that scream

This juxtaposes with the beginning of the extract where the wind is presented by Susan Hill as a savage animal.We see Susan Hill uses pathetic fallacy to present her ideas of the wind’s power as a Gothic trait. She also displays the narrator as vulnerable along with being an unreliable witness to the events happening in El Marsh. “Until I felt I was a small boy again” We see the narrator describing himself as a “small boy,” this shows his vulnerability. The adjective “small” has connotations of being powerless, alongside with the noun “boy” which refers to connotations of innocence. This juxtaposes with the wind who is described as a character that is cruel, vicious, merciless, and is overwhelmingly dominant. Susan Hill takes this idea of the wind being powerful and creates it into a motif that recurs in the story. We see near the end of the extract Susan exhibits the use of onomatopoeia using plosive verbs, for example, the verb “boomed” to emphasize that the wind is

Mallard’s mind and her emotions. It is displayed at first that we see Mrs. Mallard mourning her lover's death. “She wept at once.” The verb “wept” displays the imagery of Mrs. Mallard being distressed by the death of her Husband; Kate Chopin uses adjectives such as “paralyzed” to emphasize the severity and concern Mrs Mallard has for the death of her husband. The author also describes her emotional state and how she believed her husband gave her an “wild abandonment.” This emphasizes how Mrs Mallard experienced betrayal. In the middle of this tragic event, Kate uses the symbolism of “new spring life.” She does this to foreshadow that Mrs. Mallard has a new life that she yet realises. We see later in the story Mrs. Mallard starts to feel differently about her husband's death. “She was beginning to recognise this thing... she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands.” Kate highlights that Mrs. Mallard starts to try with all her might to get out the excitement she had gained from figuring out that she is free from her husband's control, though she is “powerless” to remove it. She does this to present her idea of the thought of excitement being more powerful than grief moreover she uses juxtaposition like Susan Hill, where the beginning of the extract juxtaposes with the middle of the story. “Monstrous joy,” here