Woman In Black Evil Theme

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"This is a story about evil: about how suffering and grief may warp a human personality and isolation compound those things, so that evil holds sway"

-To what extent do you agree with this assessment of 'The Woman In Black'?

I believe that there is no real transcendent definition of evil, but that evil is actually determined by the people's social, cultural background and acts throughout life. Hence, I agree with the assessment given above of The Woman In Black because her very essence as a character seems to be brought up around those traits mentioned above.

Some people define being evil as not only inflicting pain and suffering on others but also as performing an act for either solely selfish materialistic reasons (i.e. power or revenge), and I believe that this definition fits perfectly with The Woman In Black. Under this definition of evil, Jennet Humfrye does not commit morally wrong acts for sincerely benevolent reasons, her reasons to why she creates such chaos in Arthur Kipps life is truly selfish; the killing of his original wife and son prove just this. However, disregarding whether the ends were to be considered morally wrong they would