Notes

A HAUNTED HOUSE
Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 and she died in 1941.
She was an English author and novelist viewed as one of the passage most innovator literary figures of the twentieth century.
His father, Leslie Stephen ,was a distinguished man in the Victorian era.
She grew up in a literary and intellectual environment because she had free access to his father's library, so she developed himself a lot.
She was depressed because she lost her mother at the age of 13 and was sexually harassed by her stepbrothers. World War II increased Virginia Woolf's anxiety and fears.
After rewriting the suicide note, she put a rock in her pocket and dropped herself in the Ouse River.
Woolf was an important woman in the London Literary Society during the period between wars.
In 1904, she moved to Bloomsbury and became a member of the group.
This movement meant the rejection of the usual morality and artistic congress.
The reason this group became famous was because they supported gay rights, women in art, pacifism, unhindered sexuality.
She wrote 10 novels besides non-fiction books.
She was already one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and many of these books brought fame to her reputation.
Modernism is a cultural movement that lasted from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.
Modernism rejected the tradition and changed art, literature, music, drama.
Modernism was interested in new ways of doing old things. Just like Virginia Woolf did.
She is one of the best experimental novelists of the modernist era.
Virginia's goal is to give voice to the complex inner world of emotion and memory.
Virginia Woolf is one of the pioneers of feminism.
Woolf's novels are written in the literature of the flow of consciousness, which focuses on the inner thoughts of the characters.
She's a feminist writer, and he handles the female and androgyny themes.
Let's talk about some of the novels of Virginia Woolf.
The Voyage Out: Woolf's first novel. It's about a young woman's discovery.
This was published on March 26, 1915.
Jacob's Room: A novel about the notion of emptiness .
The story tells Jacob's life, but not from his own perspective, but from the point of view of the women in his life.
This was published on October 26, 1922.
Woolf's best known novel is probably Mr. Dalloway.
The lead character of the story is Clarissa Dalloway. It is preparing for a party that will host in the evening.
Mental illness, feminism and homosexuality are important themes in the novel.
This was published on May 14, 1925.
To the Lighthouse: The story tells the Ramsay family trip to Skye Island in Scotland.
The novel is semi-autobiographical and is inspired by the Cornwall Stephen family trips that Woolf attended as a child.
This was published on May 5, 1927.
Orlando : The story covers a process in which he met famous people in English literature that changed his gender and lived for centuries.
The book is a feminist classic, which is often mentioned in transsexuality.
This was published on October 11, 1928.
A Room of One’s Own : It is an article that deals with women's educational opportunities, poverty and many feminist issues such as the economic and social dependence of men.
This was published on October 24, 1929, is considered a feminist classic.
Let's talk about a haunted house text and examine deeply.
"A Haunted House" is a short short story in the fantasy genre about a ghost couple and a living couple occupying the same dwelling.
A Haunted House was published in 1943.
The action takes place in a coastal region of Southeastern England at a house in an unidentified locale where there is a farm. The time is the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century.
There are two characters in the story. First one is living couple. Living couple is current occupants of a house. Second one is ghost couple. Ghost couple is past occupants of the house.
The living man and woman tell the story in first-person point of view, reporting the conversation and activity of the ghost couple.
The tone is playful and lighthearted. The reader realizes that the ghosts—who are conducting a search—pose no threat to the living couple.
The climax occurs at the end of the story, when the narration reveals that the treasure is "the light in the heart"—love.
Now let's examine the figures of speech.
She uses metaphor in the story: Death was the glass. She mentions comparison of death to the glass. "Safe, safe, safe," the pulse of the house beat gladly. She mentions comparison of the house to a beating heart. Moonbeams splash and spill wildly in the rain. She mentions comparison of moonbeams to liquid.
She uses alliteration in the story: The wind drives straightly; the flame stoops slightly. The wind falls, the rain slides silver down the glass.
'’Kisses without numbers '' is a hyperbole.
She uses onomatopoeia here: The hum of the threshing machine.
There is paradox here: From the deepest wells of silence the wood pigeon drew its bubble of sound. She wants to say the bird's sound is coming from the silence.
To sum up, the narration reveals that it is the rediscovery of the places in and around the house where the ghosts spent little moments expressing their love for each other. The female ghost says, "Here, sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure­."
After an encounter with the ghost couple in their bedroom, the living couple realize what the ghosts are seeking.
in the second sentence of the story, the phrase "hand in hand" hints that the ghosts are in love. The author then leads the reader to believe that the story is about finding a treasure, perhaps gold or money. In fact, the story is about treasure—the treasure of love. As the ghosts wander about the house, they are rediscovering places full of memories of their love for each other.