Essays Tagged: "Red Room"
The red room by H.G Wells
The Red Room is a 'spine chiller' written by H.G Wells. The story is set at Lorraine Castle where a spec ... y is set at Lorraine Castle where a specific room is preoccupied by ghastly spirits. This story The Red Room is about a man (narrator) who seeks spirits inside Lorraine Castle, with his only protectio ... ucinate becoming superstitious of the ghastly happenings that occur around him before he enters the red room. '...darkness closed upon me like the shutting of an eye, wrapped about me in a stifling em ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Analyse the short story 'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells. How is suspense created and maintained?
'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells is a pre twentieth short story, successfully exploring the trepidation of a ... is night.The appearance of the old people evokes something out of the ordinary. 'The second man entered, more bent, more wrinkled, more aged even than the first.' The grotesque, distorted caricatures ... versation with the old people. 'Who seemed to belong to another age... when omens and witches were credible, and ghosts beyond denying.' Originally the narrator was in a logical and rational state of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
How "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl and the "The Red Room" by H. G. Wells build up mystery and suspense.
The two short stories that have been studied are "The Red Room" by H. G. Wells written in 1896 and "The Landlady" written by Roald Dahl in 1959."The Red R ... through "The Landlady" the pace stays the same throughout the story, it doesn't quicken nor does it reduce speed. However, in the "Red Room" the pace increases on page six of the story. Wells does not ... ies is the use of language. "The Landlady" is written in 1959, which uses very modern language compared to "The Red Room"'s language (written in 1896). "The Landlady" uses very much the same language ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Pre 1914 Prose Task, A essay about 5 victorian stories and the role of mystery in them.
ghost. It is a suppositious mystery as the reader does not know if the ghost actually exists. "The Red Room" by H.G Wells is also a superstitious mystery. It is a superstitious mystery because the re ... s mystery. It is a superstitious mystery because the reader does not know if the happenings in "The Red Room" are a result of paranoia, or of a supernatural cause."The Adventure of the Speckled Band" ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
HG wells sustaining tension.
HG Wells sustaining tensionHow H. G. Wells, Builds and sustains tensionIn "The Red Room".The title "The Red Room" immediately attracts the reader's attention; it is symbolic but l ... title "The Red Room" immediately attracts the reader's attention; it is symbolic but leaves unanswered questions. "What is the red room?" "Why is it red?" We associate red with fear and danger. Is th ... and his wife, and another old man. We never know their names. The young man is skeptical about the red room being haunted. The three elder people believe that it is haunted and dare not even go there ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Analyse the passage from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" in which Jane finds herself locked within the Red Room at Gateshead Hall, explaining its relevance to the structure of the novel as a whole.
he second chapter of Charlotte Bront¸'s 'Jane Eyre' in which Jane finds herself locked in the Red Room. I will be looking closely at the relevance of this passage to the structure of the novel o ... gh Jane's eyes, and therefore increases the authenticity of the text. Jane's experiences within the Red Room are also portrayed solely from her own point of view, giving the reader an insight into how ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
How is suspense created and maintained in The Monkey's Paw and The Red Room?
In The Monkey's Paw written by W.W. Jacobs and The Red Room written by H.G. Wells, there are many similarities and differences in the ways the stories ... aces, one of the key differences being that The Monkey's Paw is written in third person whereas The Red Room is a narrative.W.W Jacobs uses many different techniques in The Monkey's Paw to build up an ... tained in the story, building up an element of fear and suspense.The reader's question is soon answered when the Sergeant along with the monkey's paw arrives disturbing the equilibrium. When the Serge ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Compare the ways in which the authors of 'The Red Room', 'The Black Cottage' and 'The Signalman' Create Fear and Suspense
In this essay I will be examining how the authors of 'The Red Room', 'The Black Cottage' and 'The Signalman', create fear and suspense in the reader.The fear ... the story rather than just reading it. Each story has a way of keeping the reader in suspense. 'The red room' keeps the reader thinking what could be making the candles go out? 'The black cottage' kee ... e endings in each of the stories aren't that conclusive at all apart from 'The black cottage'. 'The red room' reveals that fear itself was making the narrator to panic and finally pass out 'Fear that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
How the Author Creates Tension and Suspense in the Monkey's Paw
reader is more removed from the story and the emotional impact. This is a definite contrast to the Red Room, which is written in the first person. The story is more emotive if in first person, as it ... Whereas the shorter sentences want to build up tension and suspense, these longer sentences want to reduce the tension and suspense so that you are not prepared for a climax.Another way in which the a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Importance of the settings in The Signal-Mans by Charles Dickens, The Grave by the Handpost by Thomas Hardy and The Red Room by H.G.Wells
when the story is setC. The Social class of the main charactersIn this essay, I have looked at "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells, "The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens, and "The Grave by the Handpost" by Tho ... as of the time, including ideas about class, which are often very pronounced in the stories.In "The Red Room", by H.G. Wells, a man visits Lorraine castle, to try and spend a night in the supposedly h ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"The Red Room" by H.G. Wells "The Speckled Band" by A.C. Doyle How do the writers use their settings to accentuate the horror of their stories?
s GP in Portsmouth and also at the same time, began to write stories. In May 1891, Conan Doyle suffered from an attack of influenza while writing some of the early Sherlock Holmes stories. When his he ... story "The Lost World". Sir Conan Doyle died on July 4 1930.Even though neither of the stories 'The Red Room' and 'The Speckled Band' are in the horror genre (The Red Room is ghost while The Speckled ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Explore how Victorian writers use character and setting to create suspense
tting to build tension and scare the reader. The stories are; The Signalman by Charles Dickens, The Red Room by H.G Wells, and Elizabeth Gaskell's The Old Nurse's Story. In The Signalman, a station wo ... tation worker retells his experiences of a ghostly figure who causes death on the railway line. The Red Room is about a skeptical man who enters a haunted room and experiences th torment of the ghost ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
How does the author keep the reader gripped in "The Red Room" by H.G.Wells.
In 'The Red Room' the author keeps the reader gripped by involving the reader with the narrator's moods, atm ... ply and causes tension amongst the reader.The author then writes that there is one man with a "withered arm", an "old woman...swayed from side to side" and another old man with "a single crutch", "ben ... .swayed from side to side" and another old man with "a single crutch", "bent","wrinkled", "eyes covered by a shade" and "constantly coughs and splutters". This all shows the image of three grotesque a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
How H. G. Wells creates atmosphere in "The Red Room" by referring to the way he describes location.
e starts the story, the passages and staircases, the narrator travels through on his journey to the red room, and then the red room itself where the narrator drives himself crazy due to the unnatural ... hadows of the three housekeepers.The journey that Wells makes the narrator embark upon to reach the red room is extremely Dantesque, and is like Dante's descent into Hell. With the "downwardly winding ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
How is Suspense and Tension Created in "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Red Room" by William Wyman Jacobs
ework, we have analysed two short stories. I have chosen to write about "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Red Room" as examples of which create suspense and tension most successfully.The story of 'The Monke ... her can not bear to face his decaying son and uses his last wish to send him away.The story of 'The Red Room' features a young man who stays in a castle in which three old people live. The elder three ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Compare and Contrast how H.G. Wells and Will Jenkins create tension and atmosphere in 'An Uneasy Homecoming' and 'The Red Room'
"The Red Room" and "Uneasy Homecoming" are both Suspense stories yet both story's were written at differe ... easy Homecoming" are both Suspense stories yet both story's were written at different periods. "The Red Room" was written in the 1800's whilst "Uneasy Homecoming" is written in 1900's and so the audie ... ed over the years though both are of the same genre. Both stories are also written differently. The Red Room was written in first person and so you get the suspense from the main characters point of v ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Comparing Ghost Stories
I will be comparing the differences and similarities between the stories written by H G Wells,' The Red Room' and "˜Farthing House, written by Susan hill. I intend to compare, character, setting, ... character from Farthing House, called Mrs Flowers, wants to help the ghost but the narrator of the Red Room just wants to prove the ghost doesn't exist. In fact, we don't see any evidence that there ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Red Rooms Creative Devices
n the readers mind filling them with trepidation and anticipation.When the man is on his way to The Red Room, he claims, "The long, draughty subterranean passage was chilly and dusty." There is ... he reader is constantly anticipating some kind of terrible fright and tension because they know the red room is haunted/dangerous - they have been warned and they know something is going to happen bec ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Sonnet and valentine essay
settings that the writers have chosen for their stories in “The Signalman” and “The Red Room”. consider the effects that each writer has created and how they contribute to the atm ... the authors Charles Dickens and H.G. Wells for the stories “The Signalman” and “The Red Room”, and the effect they have created.‘The Signalman’ is a good example of how ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
GCSE COURSEWORK 19TH century style newspaper article of The Red Room by H.G. Wells
rs old, had previously accepted a challenge to spend the night in a room that is known as “The red room” and had agreed to share with us his tale.As legend tells us, in that very room on the ... th us his tale.As legend tells us, in that very room on the twelfth night of September over one hundred years in the past, the infamous Duke of Lorraine VII died a tragic death upon loosing his footin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers