The Red Room
This essay will compare and analyse the Red Room, The Monkey’s Paw and the Signalman and will look at how each author build up tension and suspense. We are exposed to graphic imagery everyday in books, films etc and so is a common thing to us but people in the pre 20th century who were…
Lamb to The Slaughter
Lamb to the slaughter Lamb to the slaughter was written by Roald Dahl in 1950. The short story has only a few characters but the most important character is Mary Maloney. Mary is a pregnant housewife who is attached very strongly to her husband, she often makes dinner for him and feeds his every needs….
Lamb to The Slaughter
The conventions of the murder mystery genre are that a murder is usually committed at the start of the story and is carefully premeditated. A detective and his colleague are brought in to investigate the felony, but all they find are a lot of perplexing clues and insinuating evidence, which are gradually and meticulously put…
Charles Dickens
The Red Room
The to stories that I’m going to compare are “The Red Room” by H. G. Wells and “The Signalman” by Charles Dickens. “The Red Room” was written in the pre 20th century and “The Signalman” was written earlier. Both stories are of a gothic genre. The authors try to keep the reader gripped until the…
Lamb to The Slaughter
‘Captain Murderer’ is a farcical fairytale-like story that is packed full of predictable out comes and unreal characters. ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ is true to life, which is the reason why they are so different. It has a very real plot and believable realistic characters. ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ is a post war piece written…
Cask Of Amontillado
The Cask Of Amontillado
‘The Red Room’, which is written by H. G. Wells, is a totally different gothic story from ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ by Edgar Allen Poe. ‘The Red Room’ is about an arrogant man who thinks that he can brave a night in the sinister red room, however the red room is haunted by some unknown…
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