The Red Room

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The Red Room

By: H.G Wells

3. The red room is an example of a Gothic horror story. Describe how language is used by H.G. Wells to create an atmosphere of fear and suspense that makes you want to read on.

I understand the Gothic genre to have several different typical characteristics, including; madness; the character would go mad as a result of the test or situation to which he/she had to go through. Other characteristics are gloomy, cold and dark where the corridor, room etc. is completely submerged in darkness and cold. In this story especially we see a different feature of Gothic and that is queer, unnatural. All these factors contribute to another trait which is the main one in this story and that is fear. The character is so scared from the cold unnatural darkness that they go mad.

It is classically Gothic to contrast "the light" and "the darkness" or "the shadow." This is supposed to give the impression of "dark," sinister, menacing, and mysterious. This usually means that the darkness is what will be triumphant, and the light is either weak and isolated or completely absorbed. We can see the influence