How Is The Atmosphere Of Mystery And

Suspense Built Up In The Two Short Stories. .The Signal Man. An Essay, Research Paper

Both of the stories are very gripping

and keep you in apprehension throughout When it comes to ghost stories, both

hold the general key to a first-class story, mystery. They both take a slow

approach to getting to the main climax, which encourages you to keep reading.

When making a scary film, it is a lot easier to make a viewer scared as you can

use music, sound effects, surprise elements and many other attributions,

however, when writing a book the whole approach seems to be completely

different. The writers have no special effects or music to entice the reader,

so they use very strong expressions and describe the scenery enough for you to

feel you are actually there and have a picture of the scene in your mind. This

also gives your imagination the chance to play a part which can sometimes be

the more elaborate and chilling in design then the original description.......... The

stories have similarities between them in many areas. A main Joining point

between the two is the fact that they both only have a small number of

characters. This is better as you can follow the stories easily and pay more

attention to the detail given. You are also able to understand the characters

more deeply and get to know the surroundings described better. As opposed to

trying to figure out whose whom and what.s what. .Both of the stories have a twist at the end,

which gives each a sense of individuality. In The Signalman the twist is all

that the people say and in their actions, as there seems to be a mysterious

connection between the spectre and all the other characters which I personally

found to be very disturbing. However the most significant connection appears to

be between the narrator and the spectre in that the narrator repeats the words

that the signalman hears from the Spectre. The clue that there is a connection

is given at the beginning of the story when the narrator and signalman first

meet. The narrator, when he first saw the signalman shouted down to him the

words, .halloa below there., and in departing.

the signalman asked him what made him say those exact words. .You had no feeling that they were conveyed to you in any supernatural

way.. This shows that there must

have been some connection between the Spectre and the narrator as on their

first meeting the signalman senses something strange or even ghostly about the

narrator.s manor and words, and clearly feels a connection or else he would not

have asked. The signalman also says at one point that he mistook the narrator

for someone else, the Spectre. Also when the signalman tells the narrator of

his troubles with the Spectre, he shows him the action that he makes every time

he appears, In the narrators mind he thought of the action as saying .for God.s

sake, clear the way.. Now what may seem as a coincidence, but is really the

connection between the characters is the fact that the warnings of the driver to

the signalman before he was cut down were the exact words which had haunted the

signalman and the narrators thoughts of what the actions of the spectre meant. .Below there! look out!

look out! For God.s sake clear the way.. The Spectre also seemed to have warned the Signalman in a

way that something would happen to him. As before he was cut down by a train,

there were two large accidents.

previously where the Spectre had been at the scene giving a warning sign

of danger. It seems very strange as if the Spectre is not bad, but just wants

to warn the Signalman of danger.In Napoleon

and the Spectre the twist is that the Emperor does not realise that he is sleep

walking In a daze, and believes everything that is happening is real. We do not

find this out either though until near the end of the story when the Empress

speaks to Napoleon and the world for him starts to become normal again. .No curtain intervened between him and the light. It had

been removed as if by magic.Throngs of ladies, richly dressed, but without

death.s-head masks.. Despite this, points are

given throughout the story, that if you think back are there to make it seem

like more of a dream then a reality. The fact that elegant and rich females

were wearing . Ghastly masks, representing death.s-heads. would not occur in

real life. Also that there was a curtain drawn across the hall which generally

would not have been there but gives a flowing mysterious feeling to the room. .Concealed by a curtain drawn across, through the half

transparent folds of which a bright light might be seen burning with dazzling

lustre. Regardless of the whole

dreamy feeling towards the story we know that he really believes what is going

on when he says to the Empress. .What!, are you in this infernal place too.. However not to long

after saying this he slowly came back to his normal state and wakes up

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