{"id":4195,"date":"2016-04-23T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:26:57","slug":"haunted-hearts-lessons-in-love-loss-ghost-stories-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4195","title":{"rendered":"Haunted Hearts: Lessons in Love &#038; Loss from Ghost Stories of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>\n<\/div>\nn cold nights as thick snow rests on the ground, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/outdoors\/lavasa-ghost-town-india-vacation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ghosts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of a beautiful young woman and a little girl still haunt Furnivall Manor House. Soon, the sound of an organ fills the air, making it unbearable for the living who are forced to feel the pain of the dead, to witness the pain of a broken heart that never healed. There is a longing that they can\u2019t understand \u2014 no one knows where that deep pain is coming from. Ghosts are not just apparitions floating through the walls; they also represent feelings of loss, unrequited love, heartbreak and intolerable pain that their death could not resolve. Their yearning continues even after they are gone. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elizabeth Gaskell, like many Victorian writers, beautifully captured a rather unique facet of horror in \u201cThe Old Nurse\u2019s Story\u201d (1852). Her ghosts were never scary; they were rather humdrum and often pathetic figures. Only when the ghosts insisted that the living empathise with their pain, did they become agonising and invoke <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/doodle\/las-vegas-terror-attack-gunshots-casino\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fear<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There are two ghosts in the story. The young woman\u2019s ghost still waits for her musician lover who never returned after secretly marrying her and fathering her child. The little girl, her daughter, who dies with her mother, simply follows her mother after death. They were thrown out of Furnivall Manor on a very cold night and freeze to death. Yet there is no hate in these ghosts, all they hope for is compassion. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Failure in love can manifest in many ways \u2013 and ghosts represent different facets of that failure. In fact, Victorian ghost stories can be seen as unusual love stories; they were seldom about angry spirits looking to punish their lovers or unleashing their anger on the world. They are embodiments of love stories where the women loved much more than the men, and they knew their love alone was not enough to sustain the relationships. Their lives were spent in longing, pain, and agony: Their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/what-is-love-relationship-long-distance-breakup\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lovers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> neglected them, the world did not notice them, and death did not take their pain away. These ghosts want to heal, and that\u2019s why they beg for empathy. For they know, that the first step to recovery is for someone to acknowledge their pain.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201cThe Cold Embrace\u201d by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a man continuously feels the cold clasp of his dead lover\u2019s arms around his neck. He can\u2019t see or hear anything \u2014 all he can feel are her arms clutching him. He tries to surround himself with every possible worldly pleasure, yet the hands never leave him. This again, is a story of love that isn\u2019t finished yet. The protagonist once believed that he was in love with a girl, made promises to her and forgot all about it. She died of a broken <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/world-heart-day-organ-donation-chennai-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heart<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, waiting for her lover to come back, desperately hoping he would respond to her letters. And after her death, she held on to him hoping he would remember her embrace. She has no intention of harming him, she just wants him to know how deeply she loved him.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">She has no intention of harming him, she just wants him to know how deeply she loved him.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victorian ghosts clearly inspired Hindi filmmakers as well. A couplet by Raja Mehedi Ali Khan from the film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woh Kaun Thi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1964) summarises this idea of unfulfilled love beautifully: \u201cAdhoora hoon main afsana, jo yaad aaoon chale aana\u201d (I am an incomplete story, come back when you remember me). In the film, the song is sung by a spirit haunting the protagonist. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/gunda-20-years-kanti-shah\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">film<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is based on Wilkie Collins\u2019 \u201cThe Lady in White\u201d and it was clear that Bollywood had embraced the Gothic backdrop and sad ghosts whole-heartedly.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bollywood lyricists articulated this pain beautifully. Kaifi Azmi described this longing in a song from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kohraa <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1964) : \u201cUtne rahe pyase hum, jitne bhi pi humne\u201d (I remained thirsty, the more I drank). Similarly, Shakeel Badayuni in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bees Saal Baad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1962) wrote, \u201cNa main sapna hoon na koi raaz hoon, ek dard bhari awaz hoon\u201d (I am not a dream or a secret, I am just a voice in pain). Nakshab wrote for the film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1949): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maine ek khwab sa<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dekha tha jo pura na hua<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mujhko duniya se shikayat hain na kismat se gila<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aasra deke mohabbat<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ne mujhe lut liya<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dil ne phir yaad kiya<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bewafa laut bhi aa\u201d (I have seen a dream that wasn\u2019t fulfilled, I have no <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/the-seat-mafia-of-mumbai-locals\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">complaints<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against the world or my kismet, it is love that has destroyed me, the heart remembers you again, come back O faithless one).<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45907\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1550139712.jpg\" alt=\"koohra-ghost\" width=\"527\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Kaifi Azmi described this longing in a song from Kohraa (1964) : \u201cUtne rahe pyase hum, jitne bhi pi humne\u201d (I remained thirsty, the more I drank).<\/p>\n<p>Image Credits: Geetanjali Films<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these songs revolve around restless spirits <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/phillauri-anushka-sharma-harry-potter-jk-rowling-jane-austen-jaipur-literature-festival\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">haunting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> spaces that remind them of their lovers. Ghosts allow writers to express the idea of eternity more effectively. They allow us to continue our love stories even after death. Perhaps this is the only way to show the agony of incomplete love. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s face it, successful love stories have always depended on loss and pain. But there are so many ways to tell this tale. Lovers dying is the most popular <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/ghost-more-to-bollywood-horror-ramsay-brothers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trope<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Another popular one is revenge of the scorned lover \u2014 which doesn\u2019t stop at death. There are plenty of vengeful ghosts who lash out at the world in anger. Their pain and wrath destroys innocent folk. These ghosts are not looking for empathy; they want to inflict harm and pain. Although dangerous, these ghosts are easier to understand. Bollywood films like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raaz <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2002) and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bhoot <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2003) explore the theme of vengeful women seeking revenge on their lovers. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">\u201cShe loved him. But he didn\u2019t know how to love. He could talk about love. He could see love and feel love. But he couldn\u2019t give love.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what about the ghosts whose existence revolves around unfulfilled promises, unrequited love, eternal longing? A quote from G.G. Renee Hill\u2019s \u201cThe Beautiful Disruption\u201d to elaborate on this: \u201cShe loved him. But he didn\u2019t know how to love. He could talk about love. He could see love and feel love. But he couldn\u2019t give love.\u201d This is precisely what some ghosts experience. They are not betrayed, but the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/portraits\/nasa-florida-usa-india-kennedy-space-centre-allahabad-copywriter-and-the-cosmos\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gravity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of their love is neither understood nor reciprocated. We know death provides no release. These are spirits who haunt for eternity, hoping their pain will be understood.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1550139709.jpg\" alt=\"bhoot-ghost\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45908\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Bollywood films like Raaz (2002) and Bhoot (2003) explore the theme of vengeful women seeking revenge on their lovers.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credits: Varma Corporation<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One has to give credit to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/take-me-as-i-am-supreme-court-section-377\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victorians<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for understanding the haunting of the mind. Empathy is not easy. Ghosts could inflict feelings of inexplicable, deep pain, and by doing this, they taught the living empathy. Bollywood lyricists, too, conjured metaphors that helped us make some sense of agony and longing. These ghosts humanise us, make us compassionate and kind. They also help us understand that love may not be the same for everyone, and we are not alone in loving someone with all our heart and not getting anything back. Incomplete love is still love. There is no shame in experiencing it and living with it. Amitabh Bhattacharya puts it beautifully in his lyrics for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ae Dil Hai Mushkil<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2016): \u201cAdhoora ho ke bhi hai ishq mera kaamil\u201d (My love is incomplete but still perfect). <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure in love can manifest in many ways \u2013 and ghosts represent different facets of that failure. Victorian ghost stories are unusual love stories; they were seldom about angry spirits looking to punish their lovers. 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