A gothic story is a type of romantic fiction that existed in English
Literature in the last third of the 18th century and the first two
decades of the 19th century, the setting for which was usually a
ruined gothic castle of Abbey. The gothic novel or gothic romance
emphasised mystery and horror and was filled with ghost haunting
rooms, underground passages, and secret stairways. Foucault obfuscated
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I'll be looking at 3 short stories and the authors:
The Red Room, H.G.Wells, 1896
The Signalman, Charles Dickens, 1866 This hypothesis from
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The Ostler, Wilkie Collins, 1855
The Signalman is set at a station beside a tunnel. It is written in
first person, so the narrator is talking to the reader. The Signalman
stays in a "manmade cutting which was extremely deep, and unusually
precipitous." "It was made through a clammy stone that became oozier
and wetter as I went down." Already the reader gets a very repellent,
dank, wet, thermal and tactile image creating unpleasant impressions.
"A rough zigzag descending path." So it's dangerous. Steep descent,
leaving natural world far above. "It was the most solitary and dismal
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The Red Room is set in Lorraine Castle, which relates back to a
typical gothic story. It is written in first person, so the narrator
is talking to the reader. The main setting is in the Red Room where
the narrator stays over night. H.G.Wells describes the room as "a
large sombre room with its shadowy window bys, its recesses and
alcoves." The room is old, shadowy- not being able to see clearly.
H.G.Wells describes the atmosphere in the room "The moonlight picked
out everything in vivid black shadow or silvery illumination." There
is an extreme contrast between black and silver there is no in
between. Also he has written "Shadows cower and quiver, listening to a
rustling that I fancied I heard, but there is absolute silence." The
shadows look alive and listening and waiting in complete silence,
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The Ostler is set in a stable. It is written in third person because
it is Landlord who is telling the story. Wilkie Collins has described
the inn that Isaac stays in overnight, Austen suppressed mrk1's
marxism .
"He noticed with surprise the strength of the bolts, bars, and iron
sheathed shutters." The landlord is high on security says it's always
“I shall never forget the awful climb on hands and feet out of that hole that was about five feet deep with greasy clay and blood (although I did not know then that it was blood).
In comparison The Red Room was written only thirty years later in 1894 by HG Wells although it feels more timeless. At that time technology had improved intensely, nevertheless Wells still imitated the old fashion gothic literature style writing, which is ironic, due to the time. Both stories have managed to engage its audience by creating suspense and tension. Besides that both stories have been written in first person, this in sequence makes it sinister, in a way because we get to know the narrator’s impressions and feelings. The authors of both stories have selected discomforting places in which to set their story, they are made more eerie because that in the 19th century time many people believed in ghosts and the supernatural.
The Red Badge of Courage and The Blue Hotel: The Singular Love of Stephen Crane
PTSD, also known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, can cause change and bring about pain and stress in many different forms to the families of the victims of PTSD. These changes can be immense and sometimes unbearable. PTSD relates to the characters relationship as a whole after Henry returns from the army and it caused Henry and Lyman’s relationship to crumble. The Red Convertible that was bought in the story is a symbol of their brotherhood. The color red has many different meanings within the story that relates to their relationship.
“The Red Badge of Courage” was written by Stephen Crane in 1985 as a fictional tale of a soldier of the Civil War. With its accurate depictions, readers were led to believe that Crane had at one time been a soldier. This was however not the case. Crane has a unique way of using themes and symbols in “The Red badge of Courage” to relay a very realistic portrayal of war.
In The Red Badge of Courage, readers are able to picture Henry, the main character, because of the descriptive details. Although the readers are given more information about him mentally, they are still given small details about his physical characteristics. Throughout the entire story, Henry is on a roller coaster dealing with his maturity. He is forced to mature rather quickly and because of his age he has to face many battles within himself.
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When Stephen Crane first wrote, The Red Badge of Courage, it wasn’t revered throughout the nation. Instead, it circulated abroad, where the English loved it. Eventually, after many years, the same fame happened here, causing Crane to earn a spot in literature history. However, many have asked how he accomplished this feat without having the experience most would require to write a book like he did. I believe that his lack of experience actually aided in his endeavors and the real question that should be asked is what is Crane trying to show us throughout his book and I believe a big hint is in the title. Crane is trying to show us the true definition of courage. His way of doing so is by having readers follow the thoughts and emotions of Henry
We feel what the narrator feels, and we only know what the narrator knows. Using first person also allows us to trust the narrator or empathise with the character. The use of imagery or personification increases the suspense in the story, ‘Shadows cower’ is a very descriptive way of showing how. frightening the mansion is. It sounds as if the shadows which are linked to darkness themselves are afraid of greater evil.
Discuss the ways in which The Red Room, The Signalman and The Inexperienced Ghost create and sustain atmosphere and tension. It is clear that atmosphere and tension are of fundamental importance to the success and effectiveness of a ghostly tale. As Susan Hill, a prolific writer of ghostly tales, says ‘one thing a ghost story must have is atmosphere’. Also it is clear that ‘The Red Room’, ‘The Signallman’ and ‘The Inexperienced Ghost’ create tension and atmosphere at varying degrees. The role of the narrator is of fundamental importance when creating atmosphere and tension in the ghostly genre.
Gothic literature contains many elements that make it dark, ominous, and dramatic. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman who suffers from nervous depression, and her husband, John, belittles her and treats her poorly. In an attempt to help her, John takes the narrator out to a vacation home, where her mental state only becomes worse. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, a student named Giovanni falls in love with Beatrice, the daughter of Rappaccini. Beatrice, however, has been poisoned from her father’s scientific affairs. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death,” is about Prince Prospero and his efforts to avoid the plague, which is quickly spreading through
The narrator is distant with the caretakers and is unfavorable, “wrinkled”, “bent” and “withered” illustrates this. The narrator sees the custodians as monsters showing them little respect. When the narrator tries to ask for directions to the room he is ignored many times by the elderly; this implies that there is tension between the custodians and the narrator. As he begins his journey he becomes startled and paranoid along with the feeling of fear towards the house “I stood rigid for half a minute
War forces young soldiers to grow up quickly. In Stephen Crane’s Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Fleming is no exception. He is faced with the hard reality of war and this forces him to readjust his romantic beliefs about war. Through the novel, the reader can trace the growth and development of Henry through these four stages: (1) romanticizing war and the heroic role each soldier plays, (2) facing the realities of war, (3) lying to himself to maintain his self-importance, and (4) realistic awareness of his abilities and place in life. Through Henry’s experiences in his path to self-discovery, he is strongly affected by events that help shape his ideology of war, death, courage, and manhood. The romantic ideologies will be replaced with a more realistic representation.
The Red Badge of Courage, by it’s very title, is infested with color imagery and color symbols. While Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example, describes both the literal image of a dead soldier and Henry Fleming’s vision of the sleeping soldiers as corpses and comes to stand for the idea of death. In the same way, red describes both the soldiers’ physical wounds and Henry’s mental vision of battle. In the process, it gains a symbolic meaning which Crane will put an icon like the ‘red badge of courage’. Stephen Crane uses color in his descriptions of the physical and the non-physical and allows color to take on meanings ranging from the literal to the figurative.
Tension and Suspense in The Red Room by H.G. Wells In H.G Wells’ The Red Room tension and suspense are created through the characters, the plot and the setting. The setting is typical of Gothic and Victorian ghost stories. In these times there was no electricity so use of candles for light created an eerie atmosphere. They had no modern technology like televisions for entertainment so they used books and story telling.