Haunted House

A Haunted House Virginia Woolf's short story “A Haunted House” was published in 1985 and offers up an interesting take on the modern ghost story. Using a modernist take on the genre, Woolf turns the conventions of a ghost story on its head, and at times makes it difficult to even understand what is going on in the passage. Throughout the story, two ghosts are searching through their old home, looking for a lost "treasure" but without going into detail…...

A review of "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf with an emphasis on the use of irony The short story "A Haunted House" is story with meaning, by portraying to us the treasure of life. When two ghosts are searching through their old house, looking for their "Treasure", the treasure or meaning is revealed to us. The joy and love shared between two people is the treasure, the treasure of life. By using irony and stream of consciousness Virginia Woolf…...

Once upon a time, on a dark and scary Halloween night, lived a ghost. This ghost was unlike any other ghost, as the ghost didn't want to scare any trick-or-treaters. Instead, he wanted to trick-or-treat himself. The ghost's name was Bones, a very ironic name, as he didn't have any bones. Before, Bones had always done the scaring. It was his job to scare the trick-or-treaters passing by or entering the haunted house. He had to set up pranks and…...

“A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf, is a short story that tells the experience of a young couple, living in a house with a ghostly couple. The story begins with a “ghostly couple” looking for their treasure, in the house they previously lived in while alive. While alive, the ghosts lived in the house more than a century before the current residents. The woman died first, this is when the man left her and the house, he “went North, went…...

How genre conventions are used to raise audience expectations in horror movie trailers. ‘The word genre means ‘type’ or ‘category’’ (Teach yourself film studies) it is really important as an audience member to recognise genres as then things become categorised and easier for them to understand which is more comforting. Sometimes however genres are crossed and categories are broken for example sometimes we have ‘action thrillers’ or ‘sci-fi horrors’ this is known as a hybrid genre. This often intrigues the…...

Modernist literature is marked by a break with the sequential, developmental, cause-and-effect discussion of the 'reality' of realist fiction, toward a presentation of experience as layered, allusive, alternate; the usage, to these ends, of fragmentation and juxtaposition, theme, sign, allusion. Language is no longer viewed as transparent, something if used correctly allows us to 'see through' to reality: rather language is seen as a complex, nuanced site of our building of the 'real'. Experimentation in kind in order to present…...

Symbolism In The Gothic Setting of “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gothic literature is incredibly distinct. There is a sort of formula involved with writing in the Gothic style, and one of the most important aspects of this is the setting, which can include anything from the architecture of the buildings to the color of the leaves on the trees. The setting of a story is a vital element, as it would seem to be that the most effective way of drawing…...

I have this fear of masks, haunted houses, and anything scary. It was a cool fall day in the month of October. All my friends were preparing for the upcoming Halloween festivals and trying to decide which ones to attend. One of my guy friends said, “let’s go to a haunted house it’s going to be spooktaculiar.” I am not a big fan of anything scary so going to a haunted house wasn’t my thing. I suggested having a pumpkin…...

SPECIFIC PURPOSE:At the end of my speech, my audience should understand three important points of the history of Halloween. THESIS STATEMENT:The three most important points of Halloween can be summed up by looking at its origins, how it came to include jack-o-lanterns and bobbing for apples, and how it is celebrated today in the 21st century with trick-or-treating and haunted houses. When the leaves start turning different colors and falling off the trees, when the temperature starts falling and the sun starts…...