The Time Machine - review
The Time Machine Coursework Jess Brightley Science Fiction has been around for many years and is a well known topic in books and films. It all started from beliefs from a man named Charles Darwin. He believed in space, time travel and all sorts of wacky things, though he later died and couldn't carry on his ideas. But a man by the name of HG Wells came to light; his first book 'The time machine' was written in 1895 and was a huge hit. It was the first ever science fiction novel. It had all the features of science fiction in it, from space and aliens to theories and evolution. The book is well known for its amazing imagery and strange, random features. The plot begins with its three main chapters. These three are very important to the book and without them we wouldn't understand the meaning of the book and it works. So HG Wells has to explain about the Time Travellers ideas and beliefs so that we can get a deeper meaning of the book. In a way it brings us into the mood and we are ready for the action to come in the next couple of chapters. In these first few chapters we feel as if we are in the room with him, "This little affair, said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus," He uses a lot of discreet imagery and it seems life - like, as if u can feel
Compare the ways in which the authors of
GCSE PROSE STUDY COURSEWORK: Compare the ways in which the authors of "The Red Room", "The Black Cottage" and "The Signalman" create fear, suspense and tension. In this essay i will be analysing the way three accomplished authors create an atmosphere of tension, fear and suspense in their three short stories. Once i had read their stories i instantly noticed how comparable the stories were. They write about fear and suspense in ways only you can comprehend if you have experienced it yourself. The stories seem to be filled with the authors' own experience of fear, suspense and tension, they incorporate this into their story and give the reader the exact feeling of what they personally felt themselves. They make sure that the reader knows how the characters feel and makes the reader become fond of the characters. The reader can really empathize with the writers, because they write in a first person narrative. The stories contain vivid description seen through the eyes of the narrators. The stories were written in victorian times and have a certain gothic style to them. The victorians believed it was immoral to isolate yourself from hummanity and cut yourself off from compassion - there is evidence of this in all three stories. In "The Signalman"(Charles Dickens) the signalman isolates himself from the rest of the world, therefore making the reader feel alone and this plays
Pre 1914 Prose Fiction - Stories of Mystery
Compare the ways in which the authors of 'The Tell Tale Heart, 'The Sea Raiders', 'The Goblins who Stole a Sexton' and 'The Yellow Face' create an atmosphere of tension and mystery to involve the reader, and discuss how these stories are characteristic of the period in which they were written (19th Century). Each writer creates a unique feeling of mystery and tension in each of their respective stories, and the authors accomplish this in many different, varied ways. In 'The Tell Tale Heart', Edgar Allan Poe uses emotive vocabulary to build up a feeling of tension and excitement. His clever use of repetition builds up the feeling of madness and obsession that is experienced by the story's central character; phrases such as 'steadily, steadily' 1 and 'stealthily, stealthily' 2. The distinct lack of direct speech in the story paves the way for description, and Poe uses this to great effect. This use of strong emotive vocabulary expresses the nature of the narrator extremely well; his description of the old man's 'vulture eye' 3 clearly demonstrates that the narrator is not entirely sane. For some reason unbeknownst to the reader, the narrator develops a hate of the old man that stems from his 'evil eye' 4, and his twisted logic leads him to decide to kill the old man, 'and thus rid myself of the eye for ever' 5. This therefore puts the reader on edge and makes him feel tense;
How do 19thC prose writers create an atmosphere of tension and suspense in their Novels?
9th Centuary Prose Essay How do 19thC prose writers create an atmosphere of tension and suspense in their Novels? * The Ostler - Wilkie Collins * A Ghost story * The speckled Band - Arthur Conan Doyle * A Mystery Story * The Red Room - H. G. Wells * A Ghost Story Traditional Ghost Stories always contain a number of different elements. These elements, when put together, create an atmosphere of suspense and tension and it is a Writer's ability to use them that makes a good ghost story. In the 19thC there were fewer distractions, so people had a longer attention span. Radio, television and cinema did not exist. This meant that the style of writing was different. The style of writing at that time is now called 'Archaic'. Archaic writing uses longer sentences and for modern horror stories, is entirely unsuitable. However in the 18-1900's travel was minimal compared to today, and those who "read" would gain their knowledge of the wider world through what was contained in books. The mind is far better than any filmmaker at creating frightening pictures therefore it was easier for an Author to create an atmosphere using the reader's imagination rather than developing on what has been seen through the Media by today's readers. For a modern audience, the "horror" stories of the 19thC are not very scary at all. This is because nowadays people are more accustomed to
'The Red Room'.
THE RED ROOM People have always enjoyed ghost stories, when you read a ghost story it makes you feel the fear and tension the character is going through. The title 'The Red Room' immediately attracts the reader's attention, "what is it?" "Why red?" When something is red it makes us think of something sinister and dangerous. The title alone makes you curious and want to read on. A short story has to attract the reader by building up tension to keep it interesting. If all the action is at once or happens too quickly, the reader soon loses interest. The writer has to build up tension and then calm it down, then raising it a little so that the reader stays interested. The first lines in a book are always very important; they give us an idea of the story and grasp the reader's attention. " I can assure you, that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me". From the first line we know the story has a ghost theme and that the character is quite educated and arrogantly thinks he's better than most. The writer does this to get the ball rolling straight away as it is a short story and it needs something to make the reader want to read it. The first page introduces us to the characters in the story, a young man, an old man, an old woman and another old man. This creates a sense of fear because of images like, "his lower lip .....hung pale and pink from his decaying yellow
Discuss the ways in which H.G Wells creates tension and drama in The Red Room
Discuss the ways in which H.G Wells creates tension and drama in 'The Red Room' 'The Red Room' was written by H.G Wells. He was born sometime in 1866. Even when he was young he was interested in reading but it took a long time for his talents to come through as a writer. He usually wrote Science-Fiction but for 'The Red Room' he adopted gothic literary techniques and the story holds many gothic elements. Wells didn't want the story to be connected with the time it was set (which was in the 1890s). He tries to scare the reader and uses the supernatural. Wells was able to investigate never-ending fear throughout his story. 'The Red Room' is based at Lorraine Castle. For this essay I shall look at the ways by which H.G. Wells builds up tension and drama in the story 'The Red Room'. In 'The Red Room' there is a young man (narrator) that decides to go to the 'Red Room', despite the warnings from the three old characters, he goes to the 'Red Room' and on the way there is a lot of drama and tension. When he gets to the room a lot of mysterious things happen and the drama climaxes. After his ordeal in 'The Red Room' the narrator describes what had happened in the room. When the narrator gets to Lorraine Castle he is greeted by three 'old people'. There is a lot of dialogue in short paragraphs to build up the tension and drama in this section and the reader is hooked because we
The story of 'Farthing House' was written quite recently. The story was written in 1992/93. The story is about a residential home. The place has quite a history through the years.
Introduction The story of 'Farthing House' was written quite recently. The story was written in 1992/93. The story is about a residential home. The place has quite a history through the years. The story is about a lady who is visiting her aunt who lives in the residential home. The story of 'The Red Room' was written quite along way back. It was written in the 1980's, which means it is quite an old story. The story is about a brave young man who is in a castle with three old custodians. He is planning to go to a room in the castle, which the three custodians say is haunted. Genre The two stories both belong in the same genre. They are both ghost stories, but different in a kind of way. The story of 'Farthing House' is more of a mysterious story than a ghost story, although there is a ghost sighting in the story. The author Susan Hill takes a more modern approach to the story. At some points of the story the reader is not told exactly what is going on. This is because the author's technique is to reveal the story slowly. The author reveals a little and then stops and changes the subject completely. This shows that the story may be about a ghost but also is about tension and mystery. The story starts in the present and then goes onto the past and near the end comes back to the present. Also several times in the story the writer writes the word 'you' but the reader does
Compare 'The Red Room' by H.G Wells and 'The Darkness under the Stairs' by Lance Salway examining how the writers create suspense in the stories.
Compare 'The Red Room' by H.G Wells and 'The Darkness under the Stairs' by Lance Salway examining how the writers create suspense in the stories The main purpose of any ghost story is to scare the reader. There are many techniques used to accomplish this in both 'The Darkness under the Stairs' and 'The Red Room'. In this essay I will compare the ways in which the two writers create suspense and focus on how they communicate fear. Their stories were not written in the same period and were therefore aimed at audiences with different ideas of what scares them.This makes many of the techniques the same but they are used in different ways to suit the audience. The main similarity between each story is that the plot involves a mysterious room that compels the main character to discover the room's secrets. They both use tension before the character enters the room to keep the reader guessing what is going to be in the room and ultimately what will happen at the end of the story. This use of suspense is what makes both stories successful but it is accomplished through various techniques. The main difference between each story is the ending. In 'The Red Room' the main character survives and in 'The Darkness under the Stairs' the main character dies. The ending of any story is important but more so for a ghost story as it is what the whole story builds up to: a dramatic climax. In
Wider Reading: Compare and contrast the landlady and a terrible strange bed, which story do you find most chilling and why?
GCSE Coursework Wider Reading: Compare and contrast the landlady and a terrible strange bed, which story do you find most chilling and why? The stories that we read are Roald Dahl's, The Landlady and A Terrible Strange Bed by Wilkie Colins. The landlady is a 20th century short story whereas A Terrible Strange Bed was written in the 19th century. This is shown by the different words used in the two different story also the word order is different from the 19th century and the 20th century. The horror genre is when a story is scary or chilling. The story of the landlady is chilling and has suspense because the character is described as old and a fragile person. The landlady stuffs animals as a hobby and the writer uses the language to make us think that she stuffs humans, there is also hints from the old lady because she says that the past guests are upstairs and when the story tells us about the lady stuffing animals it makes think that what happened to the past guests when the lady said they were upstairs. In the short stories there are horror words used, one of the words used in the Landlady is chilling which relates to something being scary, fearful, and terrifying. There is a expression for the word chilling which relates to being scared or feeling frightened, `A twinge down your neck'. The writing techniques used in the two stories were good but in the 19th
English Coursework on Comparing Two Horror Short Stories : The Monkey's Paw and The Red Room
English Coursework on Comparing Two Horror Short Stories Introduction 'The Monkey's Paw' written by W. W. Jacobs This scary story is about a monkey's paw which has magical powers on it and which was given to a family of three: a father, a mother and a son by a man named Sergeant-Major Morris. The monkey's paw had a spell put on it by an old fakir, a holy man, and it gives three wishes to its owner. Mr. White (the father) wished for £200, and the next day an employee of the sons company arrives at the family's home and tells the parents that their son has died in an accident and they will receive some money - they received the exact amount of money they wished for. Few days later, the mother wished for her dead son to return home alive. At the same moment, knocking is heard on the outside door, the father thinks that it's his son knocking on the door, the mother went to open the door but the father uses the last wish. The knocking stops and when the door is opened, no one was there. 'The Red Room' written by H.G. Wells 'The Red Room' is about a man who's daring to go to a room which is said to be haunted and wants to prove that it is not haunted. While he was in the room, scandalous things happened at his presence in the red room. The red room was dark and the man had to light many candles to make the room visible and to make sure that there weren't any