{"id":658,"date":"2023-11-24T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T13:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2024-08-29T20:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:38:27","slug":"haunted-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/haunted-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is no proof for the existence of universal truths, but in the era of post-truth, it is not more ridiculous to trust \u201cHaunted House\u201d by Virginia Woolf than to trust public discourse.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghosts \u201cexisted\u201d in Ancient Greece, in Rome and still exist. They are an integral part of our heritage, they represent the supernatural. Authors across the centuries have used them in their works but at the same time ridiculed supernatural phenomena. Lord Dunsay in his book entitled \u201cThe Ghost\u201d challenges its existence using rational argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The narrator of Dunsay\u2019s short story is not sure whether what he saw were ghosts. He began to contemplate mathematical formulas, which, returned him to reality. But let\u2019s take Witches in Shakespeare\u2019s books. In \u201cMacbeth\u201d, they stand as much for supernatural forces as our inner desires. They reveal what Macbeth really craved for. The writer Philip Ball is of the opinion that ghosts can be described as social conservatives who enforce norms. They serve as morality tales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cHaunting House” Virginia Woolf used ghosts to show the value of love. According to the short story, love is something eternal that lasts forever. In her stories houses have souls. According to our market-driven culture – houses can be built, bought, sold, and nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woolf could be considered na\u00efve but the question is: Are you really more naive when you say that your house has a soul, rather than saying that it has a market value? In fact, the market value of your house is also about forces. It depends on mechanisms and political decisions, thus political forces.  What is more, the volatility of house prices taught us that market value is relative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh well, still unsure of what is sure and who is trustworthy? The humanistic perspective, stupid!  Thanks to the humanistic perspective you can be sure that haunting houses can exist, but in a person’s consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no proof for the existence of universal truths, but in the era of post-truth, it is not more ridiculous to trust \u201cHaunted House\u201d by Virginia Woolf than to trust public discourse. Ghosts \u201cexisted\u201d in Ancient Greece, in Rome and still exist. They are an integral part of our heritage, they represent the supernatural. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[43,32],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-adakrawiec-2","tag-writer-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adakrawiec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}