Compare the way the authors of "The Red Room", "The Old Nurse's Story", and "The Man with the Twisted Lip" create tension and suspense

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Compare the way the authors of “The Red Room”, “The Old Nurse’s Story”, and “The Man with the Twisted Lip” create tension and suspense.

Which is most effective?

“The Red Room”, “The Old Nurse’s Story”, and “The Man with the Twisted Lip” are short stories that create tension and suspense using comparable and contradictory methods. “The Red Room” and “The Old Nurse’s Story” both have the gothic genre. On the other hand “The Man with the Twisted Lip” is a detective story. All three of these short stories have been set in the 19th century, the 19th century lasted from 1801 through to 1900. “The Red Room”, and “The Old Nurse’s Story” are set in rural areas, in contrast “The Man with the Twisted Lip” is set in East London, a busy area in a city. I will compare the methods, in which the authors of these short stories used to create tension and suspense, and I will conclude which is most effective and why.

The storylines create tension by using unexpected twists in the plots. At the start of “The Red Room” we are told about a room that is said to have ghosts in it. We discover that a man who believes “that it would take a very tangible ghost to frighten” him is going to spend the night in this room to try and prove that there are no ghosts in the room. At the end of the story we are told that there were no ghosts in the room but instead “fear that will not have light nor sound that will not bear with reason, that deafens and darkens and overwhelms” is what the man discovered in the room. Tension is created by the seting of “The Red Room” because the reader is always anticipating the arrival of the ghost, but of course the ghosts never arrive.

Similarly in "The Old Nurse’s Story” we are told about a mysterious east wing which we assume has ghosts in it. Differently to “The Red Room” in this story the ghosts actually exist, and we discover that at the end there is a twist to do with the family.

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We assume there are ghost in the east wing because we are told so little about the east wing and our imagination can only run wild and imagine that something supernatural lies there, usually ghost.

The storyline in “The Man with the Twisted Lip” is completely different to the other two stories this story has nothing to do with ghosts but instead it is a detective story, red herrings are incorporated in the story, these red hearings lead us to believe things that are not true an example of one is “it seems likely enough that the weighed coat ...

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