![]() ![]() She shows that she is a weak minded person because of how open she is to the house. Jackson states, “There was complete silence and eleanor thought, standing with her face to the door, now i've done it it was looking for a room with someone inside” (Jackson 95.) This is a example of how the house is literally trying to find Eleanor. ![]() Hill House plays a supernatural role as a predator that slowly manipulates its prey into a trap, with Eleanor being the prey. Eleanor is a dreamer stuck inside the confines of her reality versus her non reality and that casts her as a great target for the house to attack because she is mostly set on fantasy and wants to badly escape her reality. Now since her mother has died, she is in search for a purpose and hill house was a good way to get started on the right track to finding her true intention. Second in life, she was never first because she had to take care of her mother for eleven years of her life and never had time for herself. Jackson states in the book, “the journey was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent”( Jackson 49.) The reason behind eleanors total loss of reality is because she was mentally weak she has alway been. Every day and night Eleanor has some kind of experience with the house causing her to completely lose her grip on reality. ![]() After being there each day, she became more comfortable in the house it seems to have connected to her, feeding off of her emotions. This leads to the question of reliability between the characters because most of the story is narrated through Eleanor's point of view so does this make Eleanor's unreliable because of her mental state.Įleanor Vance the protagonist of the story was greatly affected by the house, although she was really scared of the house when she first arrived. The mindset each of character plays a vital role on how the house affects them. He experienced things first hand but, the reason Luke does not feel emotions is because he is at Hill House for one reason, and that reason is to make money with some kind of valuable item he can get his hands on. He seems to not really be affected by what's going on in the house. Hill House has years experience tricking people, the house was designed to confuse people and will always confuse people so long as it stands, although hill house does not have that much of a effect on certain people such as Luke Sanderson. Jackson states, “No living organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality even larks and katydid are supposed by some to dream” Hill House stood by itself against its hill for eighty years holding darkness and might stand for eighty more” ( Jackson 1.) This house was simply designed to to make supernatural experiences appear to happen. The house is psychologically terrifying because it delves into each characters minds manifesting their worst nightmares causing emotional issues. The supernatural part about this is that the house appears to be caused by things that happened in the past life of the house. In the book, Haunting of Hill House the supernatural feelings begin with the novel stating, “The house is watching every move you make” (Jackson 170.) This is an example of the house being alive which personifies an inanimate object that cannot be explained. Supernatural is something that is completely unnatural that science cannot explain or rationalize. In The Haunting of Hill House, there is a constant battle between the supernatural and reality within the characters minds. Hill House is a never ending maze designed to confuse you regardless of your knowledge of the house. although it may seem possessed, this house is unique in the way it was designed to have mysterious doors without keys and uneven stairs that make you nauseated when you walk up them. Spirits and ghost do not haunt Hill House. Darryl Jones states, “that Ghosts are condemned to walk the earth because they are excluded from the divine, barred entrance to heaven” (Jones 78.) Hill House displays examples of the supernatural and the Ghosts are an extensions of one's imagination and effects it has on its occupants. ![]() It could be the people of the past coming back to haunt the living. There is something that we cannot rationalize or understand. ![]()
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