The Haunting Of Hill House Character Analysis

We learn from the first paragraphs that focusing on the scenery will help her forget the nervous depression which she has been diagnosed with: ""So, I will let it [her illness] alone and talk about the house"(947). The main character’s focus on the environment is the reason for which the reader gets plenty of information about the setting.

One way authors plant fear in your brain is by transforming something we already know and love into something frightening. One example of this is in the short story “Windigo” by Louise Erdrich. Over the course of the story, the windigo takes an innocent little kid and turns them into a monster. The author introduces an inculpable child, even calling them “little one”. She then takes the kid and transforms them into a monster, a windigo. Following that, she even goes so far as to bring the child home. Home. As a monster. To haunt her own village. It says, “...I carried you home,” and that is when the fear she planted at the beginning really starts to take root. This transformation is a great illustration of an author transforming something you know and love, in

On one night in particular, she decides that she has become together with the house. She starts to fall deeper and deeper into the haunted house and becomes dangerous. Mrs. Montague even referred to her as a creature when she climbed to the top of the stairway in the library. The morning after she made a scene in the library and had to be saved at the top of the staircase, she was embarrassed and felt humiliated. As time went by, she began to go insane. She was happy while she should have been scared and sad. Eleanor loved Hill House because it was the closest thing to a home she had. She believed she was targeted more by the ghosts than the other house guests because she thought the ghosts “only knew her name”, which wasn’t the case because the ghosts knew all of their

reader feel a sense of dread and despair because unlike the house the reader knows the owners

The face many challenges throughout this journey such as being poor and not having much to eat, Cash, the older brother has a an injury, and also Anse who makes the journey harder on everybody. Anse and his daughter want to go to Jefferson for a specific reason. Anse wants a new wife and set of teeth and his daughter wants to get an abortion. While on their journey their mules drown because of the bad weather and flooding and the coffin was almost lost. The second oldest brother, darl tries to burn the barn down to set his mother dead body on fire and cremate her to end the journey but hewel saved her body. After that incendtn they claimed Darl insane and sent him to a mental hospital.They buried Addie by her people as she wishes, Anse found a new Mrs.Burden and got his false teeth, meanwhilse Addie never got her abortion. Some of the theme in this novel is Family, and life and death.The author wrote this book in a where you hear all the character presespective of things. Characters takes turns in narrating the story and tell us how they feel about it. This novel shows how a dysfunctional family can leads to many horrific events and makes life harder. This novel also shows how quick death can come and how miserable you can be with life when you are not happy with anything that you

The home as a place of comfort does not exist for the narrator; companionship with her husband is lost. Her only real conversations occur on paper, as no one else speaks to her of anything other than her condition. She is stripped of her role as a wife, robbed of her role as a mother, and is reduced to an object of her husband's.

Eleanor has been controlled by her mother all her life and she resents her sister for it. While Eleanor is driving to Hill House she is constantly worried about her sister further ruining her life. There are similarities in Wilbur's family. He has been taking care of his physically superior brother and his journey is motivated by proving himself to his father. Overall, both of their journeys are tied directly to the impacts of their

Which is in vast contrast of her transient lifestyle that she had elected prior to her heroic return to Fingerbone, the fictional setting for the duration of this novel. Painted as struggling township based around the simplistic things such as the train schedule. Another reminder of loss in this family’s life, reminding them of the loss of their grandfather,” …had a job with the railroad by the time he reached his stop” (Robinson 5). Furthermore, her nieces feel as though their grandmother failed to teach the ideas of love “She had never taught them to be kind to her.” (Robinson 19) This will resonate throughout this story as they continue to unfold different chambers within the elusive life of their impromptu mother, Aunt

The author, Lorraine Hansberry, wrote this book in such a way, that we can feel the Younger family’s experiences. After waiting for what seemed like decades, the Younger family receives life insurance money from the deceased Mr.Younger. Mama chooses to buy a big house on Clybourne Street with the new abundance of cash. However, her dreams about this house are crushed, for their skin color prevents them from moving in. As the family discusses the move, Lindner,

A horrible epiphany of the truth about the plantation strikes the grandmother which then leads her family and herself to a mishap. It is significant that the story reveals how nowadays, circumstances are getting worse because before, everything was fine and this produces a positive effect to the young characters such as the grandchildren. Having said that, this is also the reason why they get into a misadventure where they encounter their vicious murderers.

The house has an appearance that sends a chill down the characters’ backs. On page 35 of the novel it says, "Except for the wires which ran to the house from a spot among the trees, there was no evidence that Hill House belonged in any way to the rest of the world" (Jackson). This shows the eeriness that the house makes people feel when they first see it, which reflects to the reader what the feeling of the novel will be. Also, the characters form an opinion about the house as if it were alive, which implies to the reader a sinister ambience. On page 32 of the novel it states, "All I could think of when I got a look at the place from outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down" (Jackson). The characters’ reactions and descriptions of the house allows the reader to understand the mood. Elizabeth Wilson, who wrote a paper on haunted houses in the horror genre, said, "Usher identifies the cause of this fear as the house itself, which he believes through water condensation, fungus and decaying trees, has dispersed a miasma which has had a fatal effect on his family over the centuries” (113-118). This directly relates to the setting of the novel because most of the characters described, when they first saw the house, as terrifying, which relates to the aura. Finally, the choice of words and emotions that the characters express allows the reader to understand that the house is unpleasant. On page 19 of the novel the reader is given a description of the house by Eleanor, "The tree branches brushed against the windshield, and it grew steadily darker; Hill House likes to make an entrance, she thought; I wonder if the sun ever shines along here" (Jackson). The house makes the characters feel petrified which sets the tone for the reader as soon as they learn about Hill House. The blood-curdling emotions that the house gives off

The section entirely in the girl’s perspective builds tension through the description of her inner torment, which is also portrayed as an inner conflict. Predictably, her inner torment consists of many negatively connotated words and phrases, such as “Miserable souls, nightmares coming to life” and “empty anguishes”. These heavily connotated phrases create tension as the storyline increases in intensity and the arc continues. In contrast, when the final resolution is being reached, the mood becomes more calming, partially also due to the change in perspective, but also because the girl has reached an inner resolution of sorts, as she remains comforted in the oak tree of her childhood. Specifically, the phrase in the second to last line, “quiet in the stillness of the trees” portrays a calming and tranquil scene, and it dissolves the tension found previously in the

There is suddenly a change of atmosphere, especially in her home, as if haunted house rumors were not enough. Although, the house gives off an immense feeling of dullness and uncomfortableness, Sethe cannot seem to leave the home since she has a lot of memories. Life seems to get better when Paul D settles into her home, but not for long. The overwhelming

The house’s efficiency and helpfulness seem to make it cold and emotionless and the fact that it lives on after its inhabitants have passed just proves how the house is only a machine that is unable to love, this house will always be a house but it will never be a home.

“ As I am now, I am no wife for you”(Ibsen 887) This statement is from Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll House, is a play based in 1879, and it sets the tone of the remainder of the story. Ibsen seems to be making a statement that women need to mature and be independent before they have a family of their own. All of the women in this play leave their loved ones behind to gain their independence. Ibsen’s statement and character portrayal helps make Ibsen’s play take on feminist characteristics. Ibsen’s play shows that women must mature and be independent before they are ready to have a family. This is exemplified through Nora, minor characters such as Krogstad’s wife and the Nurse, and Christine. With this being one of the major themes