The Woman in Black: Critical Essay When novels are adapted for film, directors and writers often make changes to the novel's plot, setting, characterization, and themes . Sometimes changes are made in adaptations due to distinctive interpretations of the novel, involving personal views of the book and choices of elements to retain, reproduce, modify, or leave out. In contrast, a film is not just an illustrated version of the novel; it's a totally different medium. When adapting the novel, the director has to leave out a number of things for the simple reason of the time difference. Furthermore, it is necessary to add other structures and techniques to the film to enhance its beauty and impressions. Like a translator, the director wants to maintain a kind of fidelity to the original work and also create a new work of art in a different medium. Regardless of the differences between the two media, they also share a number of elements: each tells stories about characters. In the novel and film The Woman In Black, both the author, Susan Hill, and the director, James Watkins, applied various techniques and developed logical thinking to the multiple adversities of both the novel and the film. Because of these clarifications, the two media are intertwined with abundant clouds of details, which concern both media. Many key areas of the two media are worth investigating, such as setting and themes, which strengthen the links between ideas and story implementation. Gothic novels repeatedly use the pathetic fallacy in which time symbolizes the emotional states of the characters. The narrator, Arthur Kipps, describes his love for all weathers, starting with the sweet scents of summer, moving from autumn to winter... middle of the paper... though they are short and crisp, they are quenching the need to move the pace of the story forward. We see flashbacks of Stella's painful memories. They are helpful but fail to move the story forward and struggle to signify any event in the story. The fact that she is dead does not advance the film but rather confuses because it is not a relevant controversy at the time. All in all, it was a pleasure to read the novel and watch the film. They were distinctive in how they depicted the story, but they were unique in that they managed to convey the idea of ​​the story in two disparate ways. My feelings for the story have grown too much because it is such an attractive and innovative piece of writing, with a luminous sense of pain, helplessness and reality, which forces the reader to become involved in Arthur's ghosts..