The Red Room :: English Literature

The ruddy get onI am writing an essay, based on the score The Red Room, and will tryto explain what makes it such a good mystery romance. Some of the mainreasons for why its a great story involve the vocabulary and wordsthe generator has used and the setting that the story is created in. Theauthor uses gothic language, giving the story more suspense he alsosets the story in a haunted setting which builds up tension. The storywas written by HG Wells, between the turn of the 20th century. HGWells was an side author and a political philosopher he was mostfamous for his science fiction romances. Wells gets across his ideasof the red room in many ways throughout the story.The Red room belongs to the gothic genre. A gothic novel emphasisesmystery and horror and it is filled with ghost haunted rooms, just asThe Red Room does. They also have underground passages, secret stairways and so on. The genre builds up a mount of tension in the storywhere the description of the house gives the impression that it is oldand 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 typeface(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 collar old pensioners tell 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, qualification readers think hes mysterious.The character says I can assure you said I, that it will take a verytangible ghost to scare me. The author uses very expressive wordsin his writing and uses the adjective tangible this means you cantouch t he 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 made mefeel uncomfortable. This explains that the character is not made tofeel at ease. It also brings out that the old pensioners are quite