Consider how dickens and Poe create mystery in their stories.

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Richard Warman

Consider how dickens and Poe create mystery in their stories.

When Charles Dickens wrote the story the Signalman he created eerie setting through out the whole story. He makes the surrounding have a wet and windy affect. The story is set in a next to a tunnel so when it is dark it make the surrounding cold with all different sound lurking around.

In the beginning of the play there is a wet silence as the narrator

Calls down to the signalman and the signalman looks into the tunnel. When the signalman looks away from the tunnel you fell a strong vibration and the rumble of the ground of the train in the distance, when a train comes thundering through the black tunnel. The train has long gone but the smoke still lingers  in the air, when the smoke has gone all you can see is the back of the train with the little red light. the red light at the back of the train reminds us that there is danger to come within the story.

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The narrator speaks to the signalman again but all he gets is a nod toward a path coming down a bank. As the narrator walks down the path the narrator describes the scenery as “clammy stone” “oozier” “weather-dreary, dangerous and a lonely place”. The red light at the mouth of the tunnel is a symbol of danger adds a sense of eeriness in the story. The narrator describes the signalman as a sprit and he looks like a ghost an early sine of something supernatural.

When the signalman relaxes there is a cram moment in time, the signalman ...

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