At the end of the novel, The Haunting of Hill House, the protaganist, who is Eleanor, is some what protrayed as being haunted, but how the author puts together the dialoge, she makes Eleanor say things that do not exactly make sense, so then it seems that Eleanor is not haunted, but just insane. In the novel, Eleanor is killed when her car is suddenly out of control and runs into a tree, the reader is ment to believe that it was a suicide, but is uncertain because of the reader does not know the ground, the reason, or the purpose of her apparent suicide. But when Eleanor uses the interrogative - "Why am i doing this? Why am i doing this? "- which implies that her unknowing may mean that there are more than one consciousness. The reader will never know if she was possesed by another or if it really was her own consciousness that made her turn the wheel and run into the tree. Shirley's novel draws upon the history of unresovled social, cutlral, and pyschological tensions that fuel the debates over the 19th century.
http://www.thejungiansociety.org/Jung%20Society/e-journal/Volume-2/Castricano-2006.pdf
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Writing Style
In the novel The Haunting of Hill House, you begin to read about eerie events that take place like doors shaking, writing on the windows and walls, and creepy sounds. This eerie vibe helps captivate the reader's attention. How the writtter uses words in this novel helps make it one of the best horror books of all time.
Shilrley Jackson shows her unique and off the wall writting skills through this novel in an incredible way. Shilrley writes so that the characters are in a childish monologue showing that there conversations in the novel are less adult like and more child like.
Shirley also had a great way of showing characters pain. Eleanor is a prime example because she is the character that goes through the most pain and realization. Shirley makes readers relate to Eleanor or atleast pity her. with Theodora, Shirley shows foil. She shows this because in the novel Shirley makes Eleanor and Theodora exact oppposites.
This is certainly a novel you will not foget.
http://www.rambles.net/jackson_haunting59.html
Shilrley Jackson shows her unique and off the wall writting skills through this novel in an incredible way. Shilrley writes so that the characters are in a childish monologue showing that there conversations in the novel are less adult like and more child like.
Shirley also had a great way of showing characters pain. Eleanor is a prime example because she is the character that goes through the most pain and realization. Shirley makes readers relate to Eleanor or atleast pity her. with Theodora, Shirley shows foil. She shows this because in the novel Shirley makes Eleanor and Theodora exact oppposites.
This is certainly a novel you will not foget.
http://www.rambles.net/jackson_haunting59.html
Monday, January 26, 2009
Spooky Stories
In the 1963 movie The Haunting, it tries to follow nearly the exact plot and atmosphere as the book, The Haunting of Hill House. Many people agree that the novel is one of the best horror novels ever put together. If you look under Top 10 novel lists, you will most certainly will find The Hauting of Hill House on that list and most likely near the top.
In the novel Eleanor is most certainly the main charcter because of all the spooky events that take place to and aropund her. In the novel Shirley Jackson gives little description, but she vividly tells the story rather well. Stephen King wrote that, "there are few if any descriptive passages in the English language that are any finer than this; it is the sort of quiet epiphany every writer hopes for: words that somehow transcend the sum of the parts." He wrote this about the first passage of the novel. The novel tricks the reader, it makes the reader think one thing and then in the next instance it means the opposite.
Shirley Jackson researched other ghost stories before writing her novel, The Haunting of Hill House. She wrote the novel in 1950. She was a mother of four and married to a teacher and critic named Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley was interested in magic and witchcraft, she was considered a very troubled woman. She was addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol.
In 1959 the novel The Haunting of Hill House was published. Which made Shirley very happy.
http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/jackson.html
In the novel Eleanor is most certainly the main charcter because of all the spooky events that take place to and aropund her. In the novel Shirley Jackson gives little description, but she vividly tells the story rather well. Stephen King wrote that, "there are few if any descriptive passages in the English language that are any finer than this; it is the sort of quiet epiphany every writer hopes for: words that somehow transcend the sum of the parts." He wrote this about the first passage of the novel. The novel tricks the reader, it makes the reader think one thing and then in the next instance it means the opposite.
Shirley Jackson researched other ghost stories before writing her novel, The Haunting of Hill House. She wrote the novel in 1950. She was a mother of four and married to a teacher and critic named Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley was interested in magic and witchcraft, she was considered a very troubled woman. She was addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol.
In 1959 the novel The Haunting of Hill House was published. Which made Shirley very happy.
http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/horroronline/jackson.html
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The Haunting Of Hill House
The book i am reading is The Haunting of Hill House. It was written by Shirley Jackson and published in 1959. I am presenting on Feb. 13th.
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