The Red Room :: English Literature

The Red RoomI am writing an essay, based on the chronicle The Red Room, and will tryto explain what makes it such(prenominal) a good mystery baloney. Some of the mainreasons for wherefore its a great story include the vocabulary and wordsthe occasion has used and the setting that the story is created in. The seed uses gothic language, giving the story more suspense he toosets the story in a haunted setting which builds up tightness. The storywas written by HG Wells, between the turn of the 20th century. HGWells was an English author and a political philosopher he was mostfamous for his science fabrication romances. Wells gets across his ideasof the red room in many shipway throughout the story.The Red room belongs to the gothic genre. A gothic tonic emphasisesmystery and horror and it is filled with ghost haunted rooms, just asThe Red Room does. They also have underground passages, secret footprintways and so on. The genre builds up a mount of tension in the storywhere the d escription of the dwelling gives the impression that it is grey-headedand abandoned. The old woman says, eight and twenty years you havelived and never seen the likes of this house. This illustrates thatthe house must be historic and it could also be decaying.The story of The Red Room is written in first person, this suggeststhat the reader believes its from personal experience and knows whattheyre feeling. At the beginning of the story, the main theatrical role(also the narrator) is open minded and sure of himself. He believesthat there are no ghosts. He is very cynical, which is shown when herefuses to believe what the threesome old pensioners publish him. Theanonymous character is referred to as I as we dont know how thesepensioners know him or who he is. This leaves him with no identity,making readers call back hes mysterious.The character says I can assure you verbalize I, that it will take a verytangible ghost to fright me. The author uses very expressive wordsin his w riting and uses the adjective tangible this means you cantouch the ghost. You cannot touch ghosts genuinely and this is why theauthor uses this adjective, because the character believes ghosts arenot real. The character feels unsure when the three old pensionersmake him feel uncomfortable. He says the three old pensioners make mefeel uncomfortable. This explains that the character is not made tofeel at ease. It also brings out that the old pensioners are quite