Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Elizabeth Gaskell portrays how easily community could victimize the individual for the reason of being different. In the novel, the community exploit witch-hunting as a barrier between themselves and the others who were outsiders. They don’t accept being different. Even Lois expresses a sense of distance, “Oh, I’m ashamed of my fear as soon as it arises in my mind. But, you know, her look and color were strange to me when first I came; and she is not christened woman; and they tell stories of Indian wizards” (p.186). Gaskell emphasis Lois as a good-natured character. However, the fact that even Lois feels a sense of difference to someone informs readers that feeling of difference is a natural emotion, but can be transformed into a hatred just