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If you turned to A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf for a spooky Halloween tale, you may be disappointed. A ghost story it is, but not the kind that will make you scared to turn out the lights at night. Woolf writes a beautiful tale of a “treasure” that continues on even after death: love. Woolf begins with our introduction of the “ghostly couple.” “Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure-a ghostly couple.” This “ghostly couple” is searching for something, going from room to room in an effort to find it.Woolf does not disappoint in her incredibly use of detail. “The wind roars up the avenue. Trees stoop and bend this way and that. Moonbeams splash and spill wildly in the rain. But the beam of the lamp falls straight from the window. The candle burns still and still. Wandering through the house, opening the windows, whispering not to wake us, the ghostly couple seek their joy.” But seek their joy in what? What is it that this “ghostly couple” seeks, searches for? “The treasure buried; the room…the pulse stopped short. Oh, was that the buried treasure?” Woolf details love, the pulse that is created in the house by these invisible spirits. This couple has discovered love, made memories and moments together. Their very presence in the “haunted house” keeps love alive, ironically, like the pulse beats of a heart.Woolf further writes “Here we slept. Kisses without number.” The search continues, the living owners of the house unafraid of these uninvited guests. Upstairs, in the drawing room, out in the garden. The “ghostly couple” discovers this love in memories past, finding this “treasure” in the moments they made when they spent together. “Safe, safe, safe, the heart of the house beats proudly.” The house is the treasure chest, each room being probed for the treasure, and delivering the remembrance of love, the love this “ghostly couple” created during their lifetime. The “house” in this story is symbolic of the heart, the organ most associated with love.Virginia Woolf illustrates the theme of love, using the “ghostly couple” to symbolize eternity. Love is the feeling, the belief, the emotion that will outlive man, surviving in memories, in moments, a treasure that enriches us more than anything material. Love is the condition that after death, man longs to find, to rediscover. While we are alive, we need to make the most of this feeling, this treasure that is ours to search for and hold onto until we die.
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