Setting and Atmosphere in Three Victorian stories.

Setting and Atmosphere in Three Victorian stories.

‘The Man With The Twisted Lip’ is about a detective who is

investigating a mysterious disappearance. ‘The Red Room’ is about a

young man who is going to stay at castle in a room that is said to be

haunted. ‘The Signalman’ is about a man who meets a signalman who is

seeing things and the man thinks that he is insane.

All three of the stories are different mystery stories, they all try

to keep the reader gripped and in suspense from the beginning till the

end. But they all do these using different techniques.

The technique that the writer has used in ‘The Signalman’ is that

right at the beginning he creates a mystery by making the signalman a

strange character. The signalman does not reply but just looks at him

in a weird way. This creates suspense because then the audience starts

to wonder what is wrong with this man.

Another technique that is used right at the beginning of ‘The

Signalman’ is that it uses direct speech; it goes straight into the

action. This is also used in the beginning of ‘The Red Room’. This is

quite effective because it gets the reader involved and interested

right from the beginning.

‘The Red Room’ also uses this same technique at the beginning. The

writer creates a mystery by making the old people very mysterious.

Similarly to ‘The Signalman’ the story starts off with direct speech,

plunging straight into action.

‘The Man With The Twisted Lip’ also creates a mystery right at the

beginning, but this writer does it in a different way. Instead of

plunging straight into action, this story starts by giving us details

on the missing man. This straight away gets our interest, because we

start to wonder whom this man is and where he has gone.

The ending of ‘The Signalman’ provides us with some resolution, for

example; ‘The Signalman for sees his own death’. But it doesn’t give

us all the answers to the questions that the reader has in his mind.