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Both the film Sunset Boulevard and the novel Haunting of Hill House are set in a gothic context. I found similarities in the way both main characters from the novel and film, maintained relationships with others. In contrast I found that the feelings associated with the two main characters, Norma Desmond and Eleanor were presented differently. I also found the representation of the gothic in the settings of both the novel and film contradictory. It is evident that both characters Norma and Eleanor had self hatred, which made their relationships with others difficult.
Having the house living it its own way alongside the other characters gives it the feeling that it has its own mind and can do whatever it pleases. While both the film and novel create these haunted houses, the characterization of them is alarmingly different. In Poltergeist, the house is just another cookie cutter suburban house. It was recently built, looks like every other house on the block, and at first glance has nothing scary about it. Hill House on the other hand is immediately described as unsettling and worn down.
In the short story, “The Landlady,” Roald Dahl creates suspense, which makes you think about how and why some of the things happen. One example of how Roald Dahl creates suspense is when the narrator said, “He hadn’t even had time to take his finger from the bell-button - the door swung open.” That creates suspense because she opened the door so quick, and it leaves you wondering how she opened it so quick. Another example is when the landlady mentioned, “You did sign the book, didn’t you?... That’s good.”
Billy is motivated by other people to become a businessman. His major flaw is that he is to trusty to other people such as Landlady. Billy needs a place to stay, he stay with a lady that is psycho killer the lady likes Billy so, she poisons his cup of tea and Billy dies but, Billy didn't know that she was a killer he thought she was a nice old lady. Billy sign a book that has the people that stay there and there was two names that look familiar to he had seen then in the newspaper but, he doesn't know why. Billy is wearing a hat, suit and a coat over his suit.
In the story “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a man named Montresor who is trying to kill another man named Fortunato. In the story Montresor lures Fortunato into his catacombs by the rumor of a cask of Amontillado (wine). In the catacombs Montresor kills fortunato. He kills him by chaining him to a wall in the farthest reaches of the catacombs, he also builds a wall between himself and Fortunato. This causes a slow and painful death for Fortunato.
The "need for ritual is a way to identify that a serial killer is at work; it sets him from other murderers"(Dolan 51). Serial Killers and their actions of killing others may easily become an “addiction” and “way of life” (Dolan 1). Serial Killers have rituals that are put into seven phases: The Aura Phase, The Trolling Phase, Wooing Phase, Capture, Murder, Totem Phase and Depression Phase. In the story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, the lady goes through these phases to kill her next victim Billy Weaver. As already known the landlady is a serial killer since she underwent the phases Trolling and Totem.
In The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, the atmosphere of fear is created throughout her novel. Shirley Jackson creates this feeling for the reader by including many literary techniques. Literary techniques are used to influence the reader’s experience and keep them on the edge of their seat. The three most impactful literary techniques that created an atmosphere of fear in the novel are foreshadowing, symbolism, and repetition.
Writers can enrich their story in many ways. The use of conflict, foreshadowing, and personification can be used by authors to deepen their story. The short stories “The Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell, “The Chaser” by John Collier, and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury all contain evidence of these literary devices. Dispute, foreshadowing, and personification are all elements that enhance short stories.
The short story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl is a great mystery because it has lots of suspense. In “The Landlady”, a seventeen year old boy named Billy Weaver has gone to London, and while searching for a place to stay, finds a bed and breakfast to stay for the night. But he didn’t decide to stay there, he was forced there. In the story, it states, “Each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not walk away from that house, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house,” (Dahl, 2). In this passage, Billy is actually being pulled to the bed and breakfast by some unknown force.
These descriptions made the house all more frightening because the reader shaped the house from their own fears. The novel does not sway the reader into believing what the reason for the hauntings like the film does. The movie has a time limit, that the novel does not which makes the novel go more in depth on the characters and
Fear plays a big part in everyone’s lives. While not everyone will admit it, everyone is scared of something. There is a lot that isn’t known about the world and everything in it. For some this is a tool that can be used to develop horror in literature as well as many other things. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
When a scary story is on the cusp of being believable, it is very frightening. When the reader is trying to fall asleep and trying to convince themselves that it is just a story that is supposed to create feelings of worry and fear, that is when it is horror. When the reader is repeating the phrase “It is not real. It is not going to happen” in order to calm themselves down, that is when it is horror. When we believe that the story could happen to us, it makes it all the more scary.
The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a short story about a young man, called Billy Weaver, who is on a business trip in a little English town called Bath. Unfortunately, he arrives at the wrong place and that might involve getting him into trouble. In Roald Dahl’s short story ‘The Landlady, the author uses foreshadowing, characterisation, and irony to convey the idea that one should not take things as they seem. First of all, the author uses many examples of foreshadowing in the Landlady.
In Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting”, the reader follows Woolf through a winter’s walk through London under the false pretense to buy a new pencil. During her journey through the streets of London, she is made aware of a number of strangers. The nature of her walk is altered by these strangers she encounters. Street Haunting comes to profound conclusions about the fluidity of individuality when interacting with other people. Woolf is enabled by the presence of others to subvert her individuality.
I see the faint shadows of towering, tall trees side by side in the forest. It 's dark out. All the critters are asleep and there are no longer the sounds of angry drivers racing down the nearby highway, or shouts of children on the playground a couple blocks down. The white, fluffy, deep snow makes it hard to walk, and my feet are numb from the cold. I have to squint my eyes to make out what 's in front of me.