We Love the Haunted Mansion as an entertaining dark ride, but does it also resonate with us for deeper reasons? K.
Bailey reaches into the Victorian era and its Celebration of Death to identify symbols that are close enough to have a dark meaning, but distant enough not to threaten, and discusses their use in the works of Edwar.
Bailey suggests that it answers a fundamental need to approach the Topic of Death in a manner we find comfortable in what has been termed a "death-denying" culture.
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We Love the Haunted Mansion as an entertaining dark ride, but does it also resonate with us for deeper reasons? K