Comparison of Two Short Stories the Red Room and Farthing...

Comparison of Two Short Stories: the Red Room and Farthing House I have been asked to compare two short stories for my English coursework. These two stories are called The Red room and Farthing House. These stories are considerably different, partly because of the respective eras during which they were written. Farthing House was written by a female author, Susan Hill in 1992, while The Red Room was written by the famous H G Wells in the late 19th Century. There is almost a century of culture and ideological changes between the two stories. This difference means the language used and settings are almost certainly going to be quite different. Farthing House is a more unhackneyed ghost†¦show more content†¦An added appurtenance of this tale that sets it as a more frightening story is the physical descriptions and apparent fears of these elderly people. They have abnormalities; one has a withered arm, another appears to be unusually old while the third seems to be relatively normal. These characters also tend to bicker and argue with each other. The descriptions and characters outlined contrast completely those in Farthing House where similarly aged residents are happy, surrounded by kind and gentle nurses in a warm and cosy environment in beautiful countryside. The initial impressions therefore are a scary setting and characters in one, contrasted by the opposite in Farthing House. The Red Room opening has been set up to frighten people. The only slight twist in Farthing House is that it is set near a graveyard. Now I am going to examine how the atmosphere is created in both stories. In The Red Room, the first impression that the young man receives is quite an unsettling one. Although all the way through the first part of the story he tries to show his bravery, creating an atmosphere of bravado. This is to do with the old people having very strange appearances and living in an environment where they are constantly arguing. This creates uneasiness and an underlying tension, as though a deeper darker secret is yet to beShow MoreRelatedFigurative Language and the Canterbury Tales13472 Words   |  54 Pagesbiblical references, historical events, legends, geography, or earlier literary works. Authors often use allusion to establish a tone, create an implied association, contrast two objects or people, make an unusual juxtaposition of references, or bring the reader into a world of experience outside the limitations of the story itself. Authors assume that the readers will recognize the origi nal sources and relate their meaning to the new context. †¢ Brightness falls from the air/ Queens have diedRead MoreVarian Solution153645 Words   |  615 Pagesthese numbers as being daily rent payments.) Person Price = A = 40 B 25 C D 30 35 E 10 F 18 G 15 H 5 (a) Plot the market demand curve in the following graph. (Hint: When the market price is equal to some consumer i’s reservation price, there will be two diï ¬â‚¬erent quantities of apartments demanded, since consumer i will be indiï ¬â‚¬erent between having or not having an apartment.) 2 THE MARKET (Ch. 1) Price 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Apartments (b) Suppose the