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Comparing The Red Room by H.G. Wells and The Signalman by Charles Dickens
The aim of this essay is to explore the way in which the two authors
respectively create a feeling of suspense and tension in their works.
I will be discussing The Red Room, by HG Wells, and The Signalman, By
Charles Dickens. The convincing portrayal of suspense and the
effective build up of fear, drama and anticipation are the central
features or aspects of any piece of work from this genre. I will focus
on how the presentation of language, setting, atmosphere achieves
this.
The setting of the Red Room shares many of the themes which are
expressed by the Gothic/Victorian genre. For example if we look at the
setting we find that Wells made use of a deserted house in which one
room has particular meaning, this reflects the tendency of writers of
this style to make use of rundown, dilapidated houses. The structure
of the story is again based on tension being created. The discomfort
of the narrator has played a vital role in thrilling out the story.
When the candles going out panic builds up to the final paragraph of
story.
The atmosphere of the story gets very uncomfortable as the story goes
on. It is filled with tension and linguistic devices have been used to
convey the feelings. For example H.G. Wells have used words such as;
pale eyes, monstrous shadow, door creaked, etc. Similes,
Personification and Metaphors have also been used in the context, for
example: fashions born in dead brains', 'little tongue of light',
'ocean of mystery', 'like a ragged storm cloud sweeping out the
stars'.
On the other hand the signal man is a story about a man who lived in a
very lonesome place and believes in supernatural illusions, but there
weren't any. Supernatural in both the stories said to be about ghosts
and scary illusions. Again in this story linguistic devices have
heavily been used
In The Signal Man the signal man believes in supernatural illusions
between the two authors, they share similarities towards the message they try to send out.
The hero of The Red Badge of Courage, which was written by Stephen Crane in the late 1800s, was a young private named Henry Fleming, who was fighting for the North in the American Civil War. Like Pip, in Great Expectations, Henry was a commoner. He was new to the Army and few people knew his name. The main difference between Henry and the earlier heroes is that Henry was not born with leadership qualities or traits like bravery. In fact, in the first battle he fought, he proved himself to be a coward by running from it.
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Comparing The Signalman and The Red Room These stories written pre-1900 at a time when one would have feared the unknown and hadn’t benefited from travel, TV, and an education that we have today. These stories have typical features of the 19th century ghost stories such as a castle, candles at night, an uninviting setting, a lonely man and so on. The supernatural means something that is beyond our control and therefore, as humans, we fear what we don’t understand, in both stories the writers show how this fear affects people lives. The Signalman is set outside near a railway line whereas The Red Room is set inside a castle largely in one room.
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This paper will illustrate a brief summary of two chapters and give a critical analysis of the readings. In addition I would conclude the paper by briefly discussing my opinion on the readings.
The final topic that I will address for this paper is how both authors talk about what their view is on the question: What is the meaning of life?
How does the writer create tension and suspense in The Red Room? The writer is able to create tension and suspense through various ways in the short story ‘The Red Room’. The opening sentence in the story immediately mentions the supernatural, which immediately tells us that this is a gothic story. The first sentence is dialogue, but we do not know who is speaking.
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