![]() Hill House’s dark and terrifying history seems to affect her more profoundly than anyone else there, essentially she is easy pickings for the ghosts. However, the visit seems to only make her feel more isolated and more of an outsider. When the opportunity presents itself to go to Hill House it seems like her chance to break out of her old life. She is a lonely woman who spent most of her adult life taking care of a sick mother and was never able to have a life or explore the world. I think it does a great job at staying true to the initial themes of the book, especially those surrounding its main character, Eleanor. So yes this is the adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. From grief to sexual repression, to abuse, there are countless haunted house stories that focus on the female experience. So I put together a list of haunted house stories that I enjoy, that also speak to other aspects of the female living experience. ![]() I loved the idea that haunted house stories can be tied to the female experience in general, and wanted to see how this compared with haunted house films I had seen. As a woman, what you understand to be true and right could easily be contorted until it is a shape you barely recognize, and in this way, the world can legitimately call you crazy.” The idea that we’d fabricate a story about our body being abused is far more believable than the story itself. Our orgasms are mysterious and unimportant. In her article, Moulton says “We make our homes in bodies that bleed once a month, a gift that brings life, and yet we are told that this body, this shedding of lining is fundamentally disgusting and best ignored.
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