The actual title of 'The Red Room' is significant to its genre. It immediately creates mystery and in a sense, suspense, as the reader does not find out what the Red Room is like until a way into the story. The title creates questions, as the reader does not know why the colour red is significant, only that it is usually associated with danger, and fear. This links directly to the Gothic genre, drawing attention to the supposedly haunted Red Room. The setting of 'The Red Room', 'Lorraine Castle', is extremely typical of the Gothic genre.
As soon as Lockwood is gone, or so he believes, Heathcliff cannot help but release ‘into an uncontrollable passion of tears’. 3. Identify the gothic elements in this chapter. How is the suspense built up in this chapter? Suspense is immediately built up in this chapter through introducing the reader to a room at the top of the house, which Zillah confides, is both secret and forbidden.
In “The Fall of House Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe uses different aspects of narrative to generate different moods and feelings in the story. One of the most essential on influencing aspects of narrative is the setting, specifically, House Usher. he actual location of the house is never revealed in the story, along with the time period in which the story takes place. This is probably because the mood of the story would be much harder to maintain if the story had given such precise facts, as it would ruin some of the tension created by this mysterious location. The area surrounding the mansion is the initial setting of the story and is one of the first spooky and theatrical settings Poe renders in his tale.
What is the matter with them? What the hell is wrong with Richard Price? Did he have a bad encounter with the police, or did he have a “real” encounter with the police? No matter what, why did Lush Life have to be such an unfortunate novel? Sure, so what if Lush Life is meant to portray the life of a detective correctly, showing readers that detectives usually have to mess up, be frustrated, meet obstacles, be bored, and deal with injustice?
In the most important aspects of Frankenstein; Frankenstein is compelling in and of itself. This book has stories that surround other stories, setting them up in one way or another. Frankenstein is a gothic novel that focuses on mysterious or supernatural features. It takes place in dark, often exotic settings. Readers feel uneasy and in terror after reading the novel.
At the very beginning of the play (1.1.1-11), there is already an element of suspense. The setting is dark and mysterious, with two unknown figures bumping into each other. After Marcellus and Horatio arrive, the ghost also appears. The use of a ghost induces a shock factor upon the audience, especially in the Elizabethan era,
The Great Gatsby is written in a way which leaves seemingly vital points of the story out, and that contradicts itself in many ways. This adds a sense of mystery and enigma to the novel. Fitzgerald’s use of gaps creates an air of mystery by causing the reader to question what information may be missing. This technique is used throughout the novel and creates a deep sense of enigma, making the story seem as if it is a puzzle itself. Contradiction is a sort of theme throughout The Great Gatsby, as all the way through the novel the glamorous, high class side of NYC in the 1920s is seemingly glorified by all those who are entwined in it, yet through the affair of Tom Buchanan, the death of Myrtle and Gatsby himself as well as his affair with Daisy, the reader is shown the corrupting ways of this immoral, careless and unsympathetic society which is masked by dazzling wealth and superficial romance.
However, upon further reading, the reader may begin to wonder about the narrator’s reliability. The use of theatrical language in the prologue also contribute to suspense and tension heightening the novel’s intension for a gothic motif, showing the reader what to expect when they pursue the story further. The Gothic genre is known for building the atmosphere, and setting the tone and mood of a story from the start. In ‘The Turn of the Screw’, Henry James starts off the novel in this typical Gothic tradition, by preparing the reader, in the prologue, to what will be a very frightening tale. ‘The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as on Christmas Eve in an old house a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to note it as the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.’ However the simple, gothic reading of the prologue cannot prepare the reader for the future events; this is due to the fact that its purpose is to leave the reader in the unknown.
The Fall of The House of Usher The first sentence of the story places the narrator in what seems to be a supernatural environment starting off with describing the surroundings of the story that is being told. This sets up the tone and mood in which the rest of the story is set in right away we understand that the narrator has been placed in a gloomy environment, which in consequence leads us to understand that he has been isolated from the world around him only to be placed in unfamiliar circumstances. He then proceeds to describe the mansion in front of him which he then seems to attribute a personality too and describes it as if it were a living person for he uses words such as soul, and even goes as far as to say that the windows of the house look like eyes. We right away understand that the house is in poor condition and while its grandeur seems to be present it has been withered away over the years, which are synonymous with the fall of the family who lived inside it. Once the narrator is inside the house we are introduced to Roderick Usher, who is the narrator’s childhood friend but once again he is set up to be a complete mystery even though we are informed right away that something isn’t completely right about him.
Essay: Comparing Setting, detectives, suspects and stories Intro: The two stories I will be contrasting and comparing in my essay are called ‘The man with the twisted lip ‘by Conan Doyle and ‘The case of the dubious daddy’ by McCall Smith. The Man with the twisted lip fits the detective genres because as this story develops and unfolds the truth, new characters are introduced e.g. Boone which is linked to some way to the mystery. Also because the Author drops clues that might help the reader unravel the truth. In The story of ‘The case of the dubious daddy’ fits the detective genre because the main characters in it have reasons and intensions which are revealed through dialogue.