Prepare and Contrast 'The Signalman' and 'The Red Room'. In your writing you should consider the following: Narrators, Settings, Plot and Language

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Prepare and Contrast ‘The Signalman’ and ‘The Red Room’. In your writing you should consider the following:

  • Narrators
  • Settings
  • Plot
  • Language

‘The Signalman’, Charles Dickens and ‘The Red Room’, H.G. Wells are two gothic stories written in a nineteenth century style. In a century when life seemed to be explaining itself by the means of science, the notion of what we don’t know gives the story fear. The gothic style was very popular in this era and gothic stories were read as popular entertainment, the way gothic novels where written infringed fear into the hearts of mid-nineteenth century citizens.

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Charles Dickens narrator is an informal, well educated, high class citizen who is up to date with technology and is well informed of its presence in modern day life he seems however to be wrapped up in technology as he is a traveller who moves from place to place, to try to improve his knowledge. The language he uses to narrate is polished and complex, ‘There was something remarkable in his manner of doing so’. The difference between the narrators is extremely large, the narrator in ‘The Red Room’ is young, educated pompous and upper class. He seems unsure ...

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