How does the writers create tension?
How does the writers create tension and suspense in the two stories that you have studied?In my coursework I am going to be looking at how the writers create tension and suspense in the two stories. The two stories that I have studied are The Red Room by H.G Wells and The Tell- Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.The Tell - Tale Heart is a story about a man that takes care of and works for an older man. The old man's eye is like a vultures eye. This drives the other man crazy so then he attacks the old man in the middle of the night .The story takes place in the old man's house. The Red Room is about a man who has come to a house to see whether this room is haunted. He finds out the room is haunted by only fear. These stories are old Victorian stories. Many Victorian liked horror stories because they wanted rebel against religious people. They because interested all things to do with ghosts. Many ghost stories were written round this period because people were obsessed with things to do about the afterlife. They wanted to know where you went after death. In Victorian times many people had servants or caretakers for their house. The Tell-Tale Heart shows this because the story has a caretaker who goes mad. The story
In the first stage the atmosphere is fast and tense because the narrator is talking quickly to show his plan. The narrator I think got worked up over the eye. The eye also plays a part in the story by creating tension because the readers are afraid of it. The two titles of both the stories also create tension. The narrator says' I rose at once to my feet' . This creates tension because the reader is on edge. The writer uses them to show the narrator shouting, this creates a fast and loud atmosphere making the story tense. This is ironic because the old man is going to die in the middle of the night. The first line in The Red Room is 'I can assure you' said I, that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me'. In The Red Room the room is only haunted by their fear. The setting in The Tell Tale Heart is set in the home of an elderly man where the narrator had become a caretaker. The writer in The Red Room uses long sentences to describe all the events happening leading up to the haunted room and the vents happening init for example the narrator says 'These I put in various knick knacks of china with which the room was sparsely adomed,lit'. The narrator repeats the word 'louder and louder'. The quick short sentences build the tension leading up to the killing.
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