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joysilenceLJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY marlowe1)
I was thinking about The Haunting of Hill House and the paper that I wrote on it describing it as a feminist text. Is it really a feminist text? I don't know about it really. I mean if you take it from the perspective that the house is merely haunted and driving Eleanor crazy it might not be one at all. But then again, it's pretty obvious from the beginning that Eleanor is telekenetic and she's really the person that's making everything happen. The house is just channeling her negative emotions. So by the end of the book, she has broken away from her family, her group and her attempts at connection (either Luke or Theodora who is the "free" woman in contrast to Eleanor's duties that weighed her down all of her life)
But it could also just be anti-feminist. I mean Eleanor is a domestic servant. She goes from one domestic servitude to another one (well a ghostly dead one) and she's trapped in the house just the same as she was trapped in her own family at the beginning of the book. Maybe there's really nothing you can do for Eleanor and she's a horrible person regardless.
marlowe1)I was thinking about The Haunting of Hill House and the paper that I wrote on it describing it as a feminist text. Is it really a feminist text? I don't know about it really. I mean if you take it from the perspective that the house is merely haunted and driving Eleanor crazy it might not be one at all. But then again, it's pretty obvious from the beginning that Eleanor is telekenetic and she's really the person that's making everything happen. The house is just channeling her negative emotions. So by the end of the book, she has broken away from her family, her group and her attempts at connection (either Luke or Theodora who is the "free" woman in contrast to Eleanor's duties that weighed her down all of her life)
But it could also just be anti-feminist. I mean Eleanor is a domestic servant. She goes from one domestic servitude to another one (well a ghostly dead one) and she's trapped in the house just the same as she was trapped in her own family at the beginning of the book. Maybe there's really nothing you can do for Eleanor and she's a horrible person regardless.
