HOW ARE TENSION AND SUSPENSE BUILT UP AND MAINTAINED IN AT LEAST TWO :: English Literature

HOW ARE TENSION AND SUSPENSE BUILT UP AND kept up(p) IN AT LEAST TWOGOTHIC HORROR STORIES?The fender use of the term Gothic Horror was applied to a group ofnovels, including bloody shame Shelleys Frankenstein, written before 1914. These novels usu every last(predicate)y included some or all of the followingcharacteristics, which seem demonstrative of the original use of theterm Gothic An ferocity on portraying the terrifying, a commoninsistence on old background knowledges, a prominent use of the supernatural,the presence of highly stereotyped characters, barbarism as opposed toelegance, and the attempt to set up and perfect techniques of literarysuspense. Bram Stokers Dracula would be another example as thenovel includes most of the characteristics above. The setting would generally have a sense of eeriness and darkness andthither is usually a lack of an escape route. This can make a characterexperience a dramatic loss of self-control and overwhelm emotions. A sense of helple ssness or vulnerability heightens the dramaticclimaxes of these stories. As well as vulnerable characters appearingin these stories there would overly be a rational, scientificallythinking character. He, or she, would represent the freshly literatemiddle class and would have lent credibility to the tale.The shirks Paw is an example of a pre 1914 Gothic Horror story. Itis close a man who receives a paw which can allow wad to make a give care but can also relieve oneself evil things to happen. Mr White wished for twohundred pounds, which he was given, but as compensation for thecoincidental death of his son. Mrs White came up with the idea to wishfor their son to mother back. Mr White, knowing that his son would bemutilated aft(prenominal) being buried for nine days, wished for everything tobe back to normal after they received a fantastic knock on their door inthe early hours of the morning.The Red Room is about a protagonist who visits Lorraine fortress, ina deserted place , to see whether the stories of a haunted get on weretrue. After a long walk through the castle he gets to the room. On hisway there he encounters ordinary objects which look minacious due tothe contrast of the moonlight. Once in the red room strange thingsstarted happening. What made the room feel haunted was fear.In the Victorian era, pre 1914, community were very rational. People inthe 19th Century had just come out of the Industrial Revolution, theywere more educated than before and by and so they had became lesssuperstitious of the myths about earls, countesses or the timidwife, scoffingly alluded to in The Red Room.