The character Hartright, in The Woman in White, begins the journey along the path of the plot, yet is of a secondary nature to the plot itself. Mary Barton is not as dependent on plot as it is on theme. ... There are two types of plot structure which we can distinguish between - loose plot and organic plot. ... The plot of The Woman in White is highly complex. ... The second epoch displays the awakening of the sisters to their repression, and ". . . rising in resistance, and with new maturity and independence, rejecting the plot that imprisons them" ( Thoms 66). ...

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