The final artifact I have is the movie Insidious (2010). Without giving away to many spoilers, Josh and his family just recently moved to a new home, and one night his son Dalton is drawn to the atticsince he heard noises up there. He also becomes even more interested when the door pens by itself. He falls from the ladder while investigating, and sees figures in the shadow that terrify him. He then went to sleep that night and never woke up, effectively in a coma. After 3 months with no progress, Josh is allowed to take Dalton home, when supernatural activities begin to happen, and most of these "spirits" hide in the attic it seems like. Later in the movie, Josh finds out Dalton is trapped in "The Further", and that he must go save him. So, with the help of some friends, he is transported to the further, goes up into his attic, finds the demon that has been haunting his son, and finds his son chained to the door. After Josh saves his son, and leaves the further, as they …show more content…
This article is written by Kelli Johnson. In this article, she explains "The Anthropomorphize of Houses in Film", or the personifications of the house in a film. Essentially, she is trying to make another character in the house and essentially humanize the house. She begins to explain the attic in the following paragraph. Johnson is trying to say that the attic is the mind, the conscious of the house, where memories, ideas, and even fears are stored. This is why she also states that is a place where supernatural being like ghosts, spirits, and demons, because they are "fears" in our life, as they are part of the other, and we don't normally associate with anything supernatural in the first place. So, when the author personified the house as an actual character, and will STILL able to make this connection with all of the past authors I referenced and still be able to make pretty good sense of all of
“The House I Live” by Eugene Jarecki is a documentary that sheds a light on America’s ongoing battle with drug abuse by encompassing multiple viewpoints from all walks of life ranging from both sides of the law and everything in between: the police officers, politicians, drug dealers, inmates, grieving parents, authors and journalists about how the war of drugs affect their lives and the lives of others. The overall purpose of the documentary was to show the war on drugs and how it has failed in the United States.
The setting of “House Taken Over” was taken place in Buenos Aries, in a large house. For example the narrator said that “eight people could have lived in that place and not have gotten in each others way” (Cortazar 38). This setting follow magical realism by Cortazar giving an exact realistic location to make the story seem real. The unknown element is what makes the story Magical Realism by adding something fake to the realistic story. This unknown element enters the story by a “muted and indistintinct, chair being knocked over onto the carpet” (Cortazar 39). In this case we do not know what it is or why its in the house but there is something. After the first time they hear the noise they move to the other side of the house to live. This seemed like a very weird thing to do because of them not caring what’s in their house, and that they think if they live on one side of the house and the thing on the other side, plus doesn’t come to their side they are fine with it living in the house, without knowing what it is. Then as the sound gets closer and is on there side of the house they run out scared and “locked the front door up tight and tossed that down the sewer. This makes the story even more unreal because the narrator and his sister leave everything behind in the house and don’t care about it or what is inside of the house. This unreal element in the seemingly realistic story cause the story be under the category of Magical
While describing Aswarby Hall, M R James describes it as a "tall, square, red-bricked house." This is done to create curiosity and interest as the description given is of an average looking house that would be similar to others around it as nothing in particular stands out about the home. M R James uses unexpected settings like this. In traditional ghost stories the setting of a house is often of a grand and unusually eerie house which creates a dark and sinister atmosphere, but M R James does the reverse of this. He describes his settings using people’s everyday lives, for example, the description of the house they live in. He does this as he believes it has a scarier impact on the audience as the reader feels connected to characters and settings that are ordinary just like them, and can no longer separate themselves from characters like Mr Abney. Although to create a sinister atm...
In 1971 on June 17, President Richard Nixon delivered a special message to the Congress on drug abuse prevention and control. During the presentation, Nixon made it clear that the United States was at war with this idea of drug abuse. What baffled Americans then, and still baffles Americans today, is that we are at war with our own nation with drugs; it is not some foreign affair like the media tends to focus on with Mexico. Nixon stated that at the time of his speech, what was implemented to control drug abuse was not working…“The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency. I intend to take every step necessary to deal with this emergency, including asking the Congress for an amendment to my 1972 budget to provide an additional $155 million to carry out these steps. This will provide a total of $371 million for programs to control drug abuse in America.”(Wolleey and Peters) Since the publicizing of the term “War on Drugs” in 1971, it has been used by many political candidates in elections over the years. In the movie, it was stated, “ every war begins with propaganda …[and] the war on drugs has never been actually on drugs… [Additionally] drug laws are shaped less by scientific facts, but more by political [reasoning].” (Jarecki) The movie, The House I Live In, directly relates to certain themes and terminology that were discussed in Martin and Nakayama’s Intercultural Communication in Contexts book, that have been used in class. Through the analyzing and comparing of The House I Live In and Intercultural Communication in Contexts an individual can begin to localize the ideals behind this everlasting war on drugs; some ideals focus on terms from the text like ethnocentrism, diversity training, and culture while ...
In Shirley Jackson's novel "The Haunting of Hill House", there are numerous traces of the representation of the uncanny which was suggested by Sigmund Freud. In the story, the Hill House itself is an uncanny figure to the central protagonist, Eleanor, as it features as her mother which has an ambivalent nature as the meaning of the German word of `uncanny' itself. Moreover, the house also acts as a mirror reflecting her own image so that she can see herself by looking at the house, thus the house is actually an allegory of Eleanor's psychological condition and she is literally consumed by it in the end as the boundary between her and the house collapses. Besides, another protagonist, Theodora, is a double of Eleanor as she figures her opposite side which is her denied self and self-destructiveness while she also expresses the repressed feelings of Eleanor. These examples match with the concept of the uncanny which stresses on the uncanny effect of the `Doubling' and `Infantile complexes' . (Alison 32)
Edgar Allan Poe illustrates the House of Usher in great detail to evoke a mood of eeriness. When riding up to the house, the narrator looks “upon the bleak walls- upon the vacant eye-like windows- upon a few rank sedges- and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees- with an utter depression of soul”(416). He uses particularly vivid words such as “bleak”, “vacant”, and “decayed” to convey the mood. Once inside, the narrator observes,
Today there is a split in American politics on how to combat poverty. Throughout history, how America combats poverty has changed depending on what party is running the government. There has been a number of different parties however, Republican, Democrat, The Bull Moose Party, and other various ones. However, these views can be put into two main categories: The Liberal ideology and the Conservative ideology.
Through the use of imagery in this quote, he shows how the mansion symbolizes death through the deterioration and decline of the Usher family.
The story describes the house as being old and tended by an old man. The house is barely described other than it just being dark (paragraph 4). This adds to the creepy
It all begins with a letter sent to the narrator from Roderick Usher, an old distant friend; “he had been one of my boon companions in boyhood; but many years had elapsed since our last meeting” (Poe 406). This manuscript sets the tone of this eerie story. The narrator stated that the letter “gave evidence of nervous agitation,” and Rodericks “acute bodily illness---of a mental disorder which oppressed him---and of an earnest desire to see me”(Poe 406). Because of the urgency of the letter the narrator felt compelled to visit Roderick right away and the weird events continued. As he arrived, he noticed throughout the “whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity”(Poe 407). He went on to notice “Its principal feature seemed to be that of excessive antiquity”(Poe 407). The house was discolored, covered in fungi and had a crack that zig-zagged down the wall. The inside was found to be the same with “long windows-dark draperies, vaulted ceilings, antique furniture and books and musical instruments scattered about” (Poe 408). Perhaps one of the creepiest characteristics was the mansions direct correlation with Usher 's’ mental state. He describes it as “an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit” and “brought upon the morale of his
A Doll 's House by Henrik Ibsen, is a play that was written ahead of its time. In this play Ibsen tackles women 's rights as a matter of importance. Throughout this time period it was neglected. A Doll 's House was written during the movement of Naturalism, which commonly reflected society. Ibsen acknowledges the fact that in 19th century life the role of the woman was to stay at home, raise the children and attend to her husband. Nora Helmer is the character in A Doll House who plays the 19th woman and is portrayed as a victim. Michael Meyers said of Henrik Ibsen 's plays: "The common denominator in many of Ibsen 's dramas is his interest in individuals struggling for and authentic identity in the face of tyrannical social conventions. This conflict often results in his characters ' being divided between a sense of duty to themselves and their responsibility to others."(1563) All of the aspects of this quote can be applied to the play A Doll House, in Nora Helmer 's character, who throughout much of the play is oppressed, presents an inauthentic identity to the
Domesticity is the creation of boundaries to confine people within ideals that are considered to be the norm. This ideal can often be seen in Hollywood films that portray the concepts of domesticity. Through the use of Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch,” Samuel Delany’s “Times Square Red, Times Square Blue,” and Donna Haraway’s “Manifesto for Cyborgs” to examine the scene where Ariel trades her voice for legs in the film The Little Mermaid. In order for there to be an ideal society that follows under domestic norms, there must be a creation of lines that determine what is the norm and what is not. By looking at how witches and gay men have been shunned from society, we see that those who are deemed different can no longer be domesticated.
Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian poet, playwright, and theatre director during the 19th century, Ibsen has been considered one of the most important and influential dramatists of his time, often referred to as the father of realism and a leading activist in the, revolution and transformation of modern drama. This is especially evident through his plays A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabbler. Ibsen is also associated as being one of the first advocates for women 's rights. Through his plays, Ibsen challenged society, the values of the class systems, and the liberties and basic rights of an individual.
The theme of appearance and reality is an essential tool for many dramatists. Although appearance and reality contrast heavily with each other, writers use them to convey underlying messages in their works. William Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen use the theme of appearance and reality in A Midsummer Night's Dream and A Doll's House in order to highlight the downsides to love.
Imagery is used in the story very often and is used by giving the reader a mental picture of what is being described. There are many examples of imagery in this story with the use of metaphors and similes such as “The doors go shutting in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.” this imagery allows the readers to picture in their mind the image of the ghost roaming the house and shutting doors in their wake. The title A Haunted House is an irony in itself most people associate haunted house with horror and evil creatures, but in reality this story is the opposite of that, “This gentle tale both references and refuses many of the characteristics of conventional ghost stories, and so ‘we see no lady spread her ghostly cloak’.43 A ghostly couple preside over the house, ensuring its safety and that of those who live in it. Their stirrings are not those of destructive poltergeists.” Woolf decided to reject the conventional ghost stories that have been told time and time again and give people a different view on ghost by making the ghost in this story protagonist who are just reminiscing about good times and the love they share throughout the story. this shows the readers that things are not always as it seems and to not judge a book by its