Analysis of a monologue

Upon studying monologue 1, I believe that we are reading an external monologue spoken by a mentally damaged character, who is partaking in a session of therapy. The mention of a woman, and the repetition displays his mental wound, as he is currently in the stage of denial and internal conflict of this woman's feelings for him. The monologue is about the character's acceptance of the women's feelings, or lack thereof, for him. When he finally states "she loves me not", that is the character finally coming to acceptance, where his thought process becomes more rational. 

Rosehill Quarry Concept
The character wakes up on a bench, discovering that he has no memory of before his awakening. Upon the bench, is a penny. He proceeds to pick it up and it displays to him vivid memories of a murder, where he witnesses it from the point of view of the attacker. When his vision ends, he finds himself back at the bench, but this time with another person. He decides to ask where he is and enquires about the coin. "You are where you need to be. You need to collect the coins to get where you want to be" replies the stranger. A roar and a scream is heard from the forest. "And that is how you get to where you don't want to be". Once the protagonist collects more and more pennies, he gains more detailed visions, discovering that it is the key to his identity. He allies with others along his way, slowly getting picked off by an unseen being. Once collecting his final required coin, a door opens, and his identity is revealed. He is the late Jack the Ripper. He discovers he is in purgatory, and must face the traumas that he had dealt to other people as a method of repentance,to achieve a chance to go to heaven. 

Ghost Stories
Within the narrative of the film, the director keeps continuity through each story with the use of the enigma narrative theory. Hints are dropped throughout the film, such as the different stages of grief the characters in the stories directly or indirectly display (case 1 denial due to his reluctance in giving details of his family's condition. Case 2 anger, due to his loss of sanity but also his parents anger towards his actions. Case 3 depression, as the sudden successful suicide attempt takes place after discussing his grief). Outside of the three stories, bargaining and acceptance (the other two stages of grief) is displayed through Goodman's plea of wishing he could prevent a death, and then his final acceptance of said death and his condition. The film itself wraps up as the discover the stages of grief are what he is experiencing as he has to accept the death that he had failed to prevent. 

The film itself displays the Victorian tone due to the theme of death and grief, but also references the Victorian viewpoint of the paranormal. In the beginning we show a medium who is in the process of being proved to be false. This references how previously "psychic mediums" would falsify contacting spirits for profit, a trend that Houdini tried to debunk, similar to Goodman. When the main character of case 2 displays a loss of sanity, during the Victorian era of history the general public believed such people may have worshipped such things as "The Devil", which explains the obsession with satanic pictures. The correlation between paranormal experiences and mental health issues is another reference to the Victorian era, due to if they were not acclaimed mediums, anyone dictating they had witnessed a paranormal event would be deemed as insane and be locked away accordingly. 

The characters themselves reveal themselves to be his inner consciousness through their different personalities. The character of Case 1 represents Goodman's fear, his level of isolation as during the story, no other character is displayed apart from the little girl. He also states Goodman's condition, locked in syndrome, as he references his daughter in Goodman's place. The character of Case 2 is supposed to represent his trauma and desperation, as he openly asks if he can be helped, if he can be saved, something somebody with locked in syndrome would desire the most. The trauma side of the persona is revealed through a level of obsession with gothic/satanic/death-related imagery. The character of Case 3 represents Goodman's guilty conscience. This becomes clear when he asks Goodman if he had "killed anything" and when he follows up with a question about his belief in evil. This is confirmed when "Charles Cameron" manifests into the same character, forcing him to relive the events he had felt guilty of.