The main action of “Blithe Spirit” revolves around a man who is being haunted by his first wife’s ghost that is extremely bothersome to his current wife who ends up joining the first wife as a ghost and together they taunt and torment the man. The plot tells the story of a popular novelist, Charles Condomine, who wants to learn more about homicidal medium and invites a woman to hold a séance at his house. This woman somehow summons Charles’ deceased first wife who taunts him and causes marital quarrels between him and his current wife. It explores the chaos and disturbance when paranormal tampers with the living. The cast is comprised of only seven characters.
As quoted from the (plot overview sparknotes 5) “a handsome bachelor persuaded the governess to take a position as governess for his niece and nephew in a isolated home after the previous governess died”. One questions how come the previous governess was never talked about and what caused his or her death. Insanity is defined as a mental illness in a severe nature where as a person cannot distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality. This may cause a person to become delusional. Insanity is mostly discussed in courts to determine whether or not a criminal is innocent or guilty .one famous literary book that is a perfect example of insanity is “The Fall of the House of Usher by Egar Allen
Section 1 A. P1-P51 (Prologue, The River, The Fire) B. Summary “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm,” the narrator, Dana, states to open the novel’s prologue. She goes on to explain that she does not understand how her arm was lost, and that neither the doctors nor the police could explain how the injury occurred. Although the police suspected that her husband Kevin, who had brought her to the emergency room, had harmed Dana, they drop any charges against him because they have no proof and Dana insists to them that he is not responsible.
As she refuses to talk to anybody, the child created her own imaginary world being unwilling to look at the reality: “Why couldn't he understand that if he kept quiet, if all of them kept quiet, her parents would hear her and come to take her home?” (47). Through the story, her illusion state changes and tend to become a realistic one. Step by step she has no choice but to find in herself enough courage to accept and to surpass the situation. Nandana can be considered a hero because, as it painful, she finally accepts and begins to talk. Secondly, there's Nirmala, Nandana's grandmother, who was binged back to reality.
“Why don’t you keep your room cleaned like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed – what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk (Oats 899).” Connie and her father did not have the best relationship either because her father “didn’t bother talking much to them (899).” Even to an extent Connie “wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over (899).” So it is easy to think that her personal feeling to her family and her suicidal thoughts could influence her dream in which Arnold Friend threatens to kill her family and ultimately to kill Connie. Arnold Friend was mentioned early in the book when Connie was hanging out with a boy she had just met and hooked up with for the night.
It is quite clear that through her actions that the grandmother is very selfish thus trying to satisfy her selfishness by manipulating others. Once the grandmother meets The Misfit and tries to use the ploy of “you’re a good man” some may feel that she is the same self-absorbed manipulator that she was in the beginning of the story. It becomes evident in that she does not beg for anyone else’s life, because the first words out of her mouth to The Misfit are “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” (O’Conner, 1955).
“You have been cruelly used”, said Holmes”. When Dr Grimesby Roylott comes in and threatens Holmes and knows that his stepdaughter has been there to see Holmes, Holmes shows concern for Helen’s wellbeing and what Dr Grimesby Roylott would do to her “I only trust that our little friend will not suffer from her
The woman died first, this is when the man left her and the house, he “went North, went East, saw the stars turned in the Southern sky.” Later when the man died, he returned to join the woman ghost at the house they occupied while together. Fearing, that the new couple may have found their treasure, the ghosts go from “room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there. Opening windows, whispering not to wake us, the ghostly seek their joy.” The narrator, being aware that there are ghosts in the house, never feared being harmed. In the end, the author reveals that the buried treasure is “the light in the heart,” referring to all the different places in and around the house, where they had expressed their love to each other. "A Haunted House" is story with meaning, by portraying to us the treasure of life.
The inability to recognize the distinction from her false goodness and genuine goodness in people and things around her, leads to the demise of her and her family. O’Connor suggests the depth of meaning in her story when the grandmother ultimately exhibits a moment of clarity and a revelation of life approaching her ultimate end before it is too late. A particular event of this sort is especially true when considering the relationship of the human race with spirituality and its affiliation with grace, love, and forgiveness (Mitchell 212). The author’s depiction of the characters seems to reflect her views on the world and the spirituality of the modern man. Moreover, the author is able to bring out the theme of good and evil through various encounters involving the grandmother.
In the opening scene of Jane Eyre, we immediately see how Jane is suppressed by the Reed family. She is often forbidden to show expression in any form. Upon questioning her guardian as to the reasoning behind her being excluded from the rest of the family, she is told, "Be seated somewhere, and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent" (39). She retires to solitude in another room of the house with a book to keep her occupied and is never allowed to explain herself. When John Reed finds her and hurls a book at her head, she is forced to go to the "red-room."