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Summary of the red room by h g wells
Summary of the red room by h g wells
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Tension in The Red Room, The Cone and The Superstitious Man's Story 'The Red Room', The Cone' and 'The Superstitious Man's Story' are all short stories which were written before 1914. 'The Red Room' and 'The Cone' were both written by H.G. Wells and 'The Superstitious Man's Story' was written by Thomas Hardy. All three of these stories were written in Victorian Times (1837-1901). These were years of great scientific and technological developments. The authors of the three stories show us a diminishing belief in superstition and supernatural. The authors of 'The Red Room' and 'The Superstitious Man's Story' have written the stories in the style of a gothic one, although they don’t end up being supernatural. However, 'The Cone' has been written with no gothic features, but it shows technological development as the title itself contains the word 'Cone' which is part of industrial terminology. Also, the setting is industrial and shows the development. 'The Red Room' is about a man who goes to a house and in particular a room which is seen to have ghosts in it and, therefore, no one goes in that room. However, this man goes in to prove there is no existence of a ghost. We find out that no ghost is present in the room and there never has been and it's just that fear has overcome the person. 'The Cone' is about a man and woman who are having an affair. Tension is created as the man and woman who are having an affair are not sure whether the woman's husband has found out about what is going on. At the end the woman's husband kills the other man and then after throwing him off a bridge on top of the hot, melting iron at the bottom, he realises he has done something terribly wrong. In contrast 'The Superstit... ... middle of paper ... ...nd creates more tension, whereas if it was daytime people wouldn't be as scared, although it may influence the readers as creating tension. Feelings of characters creates tension in all stories, as it puts us in the place of the character and the description makes us feel, how the character is feeling. This creates tension and also maintains it, as we don’t know what will happen next. Imagery such as metaphors, similes and personification maintains the tension during the stories. It makes us create a flamboyant picture, of what is going on. Sentence structure also gives us a sense of tension as the build up of sentences tells us an important part is coming up, which creates anticipation for the readers. The work of H.G. Wells and Thomas Hardy has been successful and the way in which all three pre 1914 stories create tension and the way it is maintained.
for one night. "It is said that on one night of his life Don Juan
The narrator begins by portraying the house to look like typical horror movie houses. It’s a large, pretty house, with locked gates, and is far away from the street and other houses. When they initially moved into the house, she feels spirits right away, saying “there is something strange about the house—I can feel it.” (377). She later declares there is a peculiar smell in the house. “It creeps all over the house. I find it hovering in the dining-room, skulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs. It gets into my hair. Even when I go to ride, if I turn my head suddenly and surprise it, there is that smell!” (385). The way she phrased this brings the presence of the dead to the atmosphere. Spirits are often described as “hovering” and “creeping” around, popping up unexpectedly. She says it’s hiding and waiting for her, which probably scares her.
is when one is afraid to face up to their phobia. HG Wells wrote the
theme but The Red Room tells us only of the location not of the time
The people living around each place have their own myths and stories of the supernatural. In The Darkness Out There, little children made up stories that there were witches and wolves at Packers End. Even the main character, who doesn’t believe in witches and wolves anymore, but is still frightened of it for other reasons such as rapists / killers which are defined as prowling blokes / gypsy type blokes. Adults however tend to believe that they could hear German’s talking on their radios and that voices came out of branches. In The Red Room however only, the old people that live in the house have stories to tell they believe that the red room is haunted.
this pair of lovers are meant to be together and it is written in the
The Red Room is based on a gothic horror story. This type of fiction existed in the late 18th and 19th centaury, gothic stories are mainly based inside big, dark, ruined castles or abbeys and featured mystery and horror, it would also feature ghost haunted rooms, secret stairways and underground passages which would create tense and drama. The Red Room has many gothic aspects such as a dark room in which weird, scary
"The Red Room" is not as scary but the use of red often shows danger
Harry Houdini had a way to make sure that he would always be able to take off any handcuffs he put on. He put all of his lock picking tools inside his “ghost house”. Harry’s ghost house was a four sided cabinet. A ghost house is a storage area that a magician would be able to go inside and put in and take out tools that they would need for their magic acts.
as a means of evolving the story but also places it at the centre of
Upon entering the dimly lit space you are immediately met with a wall of damp air that captures your attention and heightens your senses. This overwhelming feeling of mystery and intrigue takes over. Moving further into the room your eyes are drawn to a white screen. As you grow nearer, movement of shadowed figures appears, but when rounding the corner, on the other side, eerily there is no figure, just the lonely furniture
The Red Room is a story about a young man 28 years old goes to this
The first sign of a spirit in the room is the eyes she sees in the wallpaper. Stetson writes, “There is a recurrent spot where the patterns lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” (Stetson, 649). She describes the eyes as following her around the room as if there were a person who those eyes belonged to. She explains the eyes to have a lot of expression in them but never explains whether it was a positive or negative expression. These eyes could be the eyes of a ghost that want to get her attention to help get it out of the
Within the corridor, there was a long and dark hallway, and there were glow sticks still activated. Tommy thought that some people here had a rave with the ghosts to determine if the ghost was chill or not. Also on the walls was blood decked everywhere. That told Tommy that the ghosts were not chill. Then there were several rooms and the guys went to each of the rooms as a group because you know in horror movies how people split up? They were not ready to die yet and they held their stun guns firmly and pre aimed so they can get the jump on whatever it is. The first room was foggy and filled with smoke, Tommy had told the group that Bob Marley may be haunting this motel, but they didn't have time for it. After a long venture through the rooms and finding out what was in them one final door was revealed hidden inside a wall. They entered this mysterious and unknown room until they encountered something that they were not supposed to see. A frog shaped humanoid was spotted jumping around with a depressed face on it. Brennen thought it might be the legendary Pepe, but didn't know it actually existed. The team, without hesitation, fired their stun guns and put the Pepe down. They then started to beat Pepe with many comments like, "Your memes aren't even funny!" They realized that there was more to than motel than just
The subject will be argued from the two possible, yet opposite, sides: the “ghost'; as a non-existent and the “ghost'; as an existent spirit. This will be done through the elements of perception. Perception, although being so complex, is the medium by which individuals receive information from the surrounding world.