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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
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between the two authors, they share similarities towards the message they try to send out.
...ce, although both writings are interesting in their own ways, the most interesting aspect of both writings together is that they both have a similar plot and theme. It is rare that two
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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.
Finally, even though, for a long time, the roles of woman in a relationship have been established to be what I already explained, we see that these two protagonists broke that conception and established new ways of behaving in them. One did it by having an affair with another man and expressing freely her sexuality and the other by breaking free from the prison her marriage represented and discovering her true self. The idea that unites the both is that, in their own way, they defied many beliefs and started a new way of thinking and a new perception of life, love and relationships.
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?
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