How does H.G Wells use language, character and setting to build tension and fear in the short story "The Red Room".

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How does H.G Wells use language, character and setting to build tension and fear in the short story

“The Red Room”

In this essay I am going to show how H.G Wells uses language, character and setting to build tension and fear.

 “The Red Room” was appealing to the Victorians as it was indeed quite a short story, Reading a story in less than say an hour gave them a great sense of achievement as they started and finished quite quickly. Though reading and understanding the plot and essence of the story they would be able to hold an intellectual conversation about a book or author and maybe use some of the skills such as personification and similes in there own works of poetry and general everyday speech. We now know that the Victorians were quite dramatic in everyway shape and form, maybe this is they got there melodramatic personalities from.

A gothic genre is a type of romantic fiction that pre dominated in English literature in the last 3rd of the 18th centaury and the 1st to decades of the 19th centaury, the setting for which was usually a rewind castle or abbey. The gothic novel or gothic romance, emphasised mystery and horror and was filled with ghost-haunted rooms and underground passages

 Wells was born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, the son of a professional cricketer and a domestic servant. By the time he was 16, he had failed in three apprenticeships to two drapers and a pharmacist. He won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science, but, although he was a gifted student, his interest in journalism and politics led him to fail his exams in 1887. Working as a science tutor, he married his cousin, Isabel, in 1891, but left her for a student, Amy Catherine Robbins, three years later. They married in 1895, Wells arbitrarily deciding that she would henceforth be known as “Jane”. They live together for many years whilst he created his wonderful works of poetry and short stories until “Jane” Wells his wife died in 1927. He wrote very view things after she died, The Shape of Things to Come, This his penultimate book was published in the year that Hitler came to power it talked of global conflict in 1939. Produced at the end of World War II, his final book, Mind at the End of its Tether, argued that “the end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded”. He died on August 13, 1946, in London.

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The red room is a short story written by H.G Wells. The story is about a young man who does not believe in ghosts. For some reason which we don’t know why he ends up staying at a particularly scary house. This house is inhabited partly by 3 old people, they warn him of the fears in the house and talk of the night he was staying here as “this night of all nights” the immediately fill his head with strange stories. He sleeps in a room know as “The Red Room” For which reason we never find out. During ...

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