Haunted Mansion

Human beings, flawed as they are, frequently form unhealthy attachments, run arms akimbo into delusion, and create fictions that drive them eventually to suicide or madness. In the world outside of horror novels people lose their grip on reality and in their insanity meld their mental illnesses to the environment around them. Within the world of horror novels such a break from reality could certainly be hastened by a malevolent antagonist. In The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson the protagonist, Eleanor, begins to form an attachment to the haunted mansion in the wake of her mother’s death. Between her mother that required constant care and her less that compassionate sister Eleanor is left less than what one could consider proper mental health. This death provides Eleanor, her mother’s former caretaker, with an opportunity to escape the controlling grip of her sister and her brother-in-law as to remove herself from the dysfunction that was this household. When Eleanor…

Slide One: Welcome, Foolish Mortals For 45 years, Disneyland's Haunted Mansion has been welcoming visitors into its eerie halls. Starting on August 9th 1969, employees and a limited number of guests were allowed to ride this attraction. On August 12th, the Haunted Mansion opened to the general audience. Let's hope that this spooky ride will continue to give Disney guests the chills and laughter for many years! Slide Two: Muesum of the Weird During the development stages of Disney attractions…

Orlando’s Walt Disney World, a person has many options on which well known and well loved ride they want to choose from. But, if this person is looking for a more spooky experience, two attractions come into mind. These include the classic Haunted Mansion and the thrilling Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Even though The Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror share many similarities, they also have vast differences in story, experience, and location that set the two rides apart. Likely some of the…

In a peculiar and intriguing short story called “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner tells about a mysterious and reclusive woman named Emily Grierson. Although the story is not told in chronological order, the five acts flow in such a way that the narrator is able to easily describe Miss Emily’s character through her actions over several years in the southern town of Jefferson. Despite Miss Emily’s family once being the town’s somewhat social-royalty, the speaker informs readers how Miss Emily…

William Faulkner is considered to be one of the greatest American authors in twentieth century. Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is one of his best witting. The story is placed in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi in 1930 (Akers, 2002). William Faulkner 's central theme of the story is to let go of the past. The main character of the story “A Rose for Emily” is Emily Grierson, who has a tendency to cling to the past. Faulkner uses symbols throughout the story to show the stubbornness of…

What could possibly drive a woman all the way to the point of murder? In “A Rose for Emily,” a short story by William Faulkner, and Trifles, a play by Susan Glaspell, the reader sees two stories in which this happens. In both of these stories, the protagonist is a woman, and both kill the men in their life. In Trifles, Mrs. Wright kills her husband while Emily kills her boyfriend in “A Rose for Emily.” Both of these stories take place from the third person point of view and are re-told in the…

Written or Verbal Written in 1930, William Faulkner’s twisted short story “A Rose for Emily” is still being discussed eighty-five years later. Having been made into a major motion picture in 1982, the cryptic story’s legend lives on into a new age of discussion. Miss Emily Grierson made a name for herself in the small southern town, and both forms of media convey the deep twists of her life in one way or another. The movie and book contain similarities like the odor problem and the…

Small town life within literature is often fantasized about by the authors that choose to use them as the settings for their stories. All the characters appear to be pleased with themselves and do what they can, given their circumstances, however, this is not the case in Faulkner’s The Hamlet and Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. These authors show that the characters within their texts are striving to achieve their own personal American dream, and that to them America itself is the very place in…

The Mysterious Love Story Of Miss Emily In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, Emily Grierson is not your average southern lady, this made her well-known in the small town of Jefferson. Miss Emily obsessed over love, gossip, and the dead bodies of the men that held a place in her heart. Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Homer Barron, Colonel Sartoris, and Judge Stevens, each of these men that was involved in Miss Emily’s life left a lasting impression. The first man that Emily Grierson laid her eyes…

In the story "A Rose for Emily", the author, William Faulkner, portrays Emily as a mysterious older lady, which is unusual. In most people 's idea of an older woman, everyone knows what is going on with her; she talks about her grandchildren and pays her bills. Emily Grierson was not like that at all. She was, in fact, the complete opposite. She was traditional, stubborn, overly adoring over subjects that could easily be solved a different way. Emily Grierson lives in traditional ways. She felt…