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In response to the claim that all outsiders in fiction are oppressed victims rather than strong non-conformists I have compared two novels, featuring one or more outsider, ‘Silas Marner’ by George Eliot and ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ by Harper Lee. The claim has some measure of truth in that, at the beginning of the […]

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, was written in the 1960s, but the story is set in the 1930s. The novel is also set in a small town called Maycomb in Alabama, and Scout Finch, a six-year-old child, born and raised in the town, narrates the story. Historical Context is very important to the […]

“… As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes […]

The fact that Maycomb County is described as a microcosm, or in other words, a “miniature representation”, immediately shows the reader that it is a quaint, closely structured town with a small population. Harper lee shows this by having family and social groupings such as, the Cunningham’s, Ewell’s, Radley’s and Finches. The book has been […]

Arthur “Boo” Radley, a main character in To Kill A Mockingbird, was involved with the wrong crowd as a teenager and faced legal trouble. Consequently, a judge ruled for him to be sent to a state industrial school. However, Arthur’s father opposed this decision and negotiated with the judge to allow him to bring Arthur […]

‘The darkness out there which I will refer to as ‘The darkness’, and the Red Room are both short stories in which fear is used to engage the reader, but fear is used in different ways in both stories. The beginning of each story starts in a very different way. The Darkness begins peacefully with […]

In 1896, H G Wells wrote ‘The Red Room’, a tale about a conceited man who visits a dilapidated house inhabited by strange elderly tenants. His purpose is to debunk the notion that the titular room is haunted. Upon arrival, he encounters an odd trio, including a man with a crooked mouth and an old […]

The exploration of themes such as time travel, communism, and different leadership styles advocated by the author has made H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ an acclaimed science fiction novel. Herbert George Wells was born in Kent, England on September 21, 1866. Although his father was a cricket player and shopkeeper and his mother had worked […]

‘The Red Room’ by H G Wells (1896) and ‘Farthing House’ by Susan Hill (1992) are two short ghost stories written in different centuries and in different styles. Both stories have similarities and differences in different areas such as language, atmosphere and setting. I will look at these similarities and differences and analyse them, deciding […]

Typically, when perusing a ghost story, one may observe that the tale transpires in a dark and secluded site, frequently during nighttime. The apparitions typically consist of individuals who have perished amidst misfortune or wrongdoing. Ghost tales commonly aim to induce fear and discomfort in readers, often by employing suspenseful tactics and gradually escalating tension […]

I have chosen to compare The Red Room by H. G. Wells and The Monkeys Paw written by W. W. Jacobs. In The Red Room, there isn’t a ghost but it’s about a man who is overwhelmed with fear when he spends a night in a haunted room. There isn’t a ghost in The Monkeys […]

Herbert George Wells, now more commonly known as HG Wells was born on September 21, 1866. One of the most defining incidents of his life is said to be an accident he had in 1874, when he was seven years old, which left him bedridden with a broken leg. To pass the time he started […]

Penelope Lively and H. G. Wells both wrote stories with large similarities even though they were written in completely different eras. The two main characters in ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Darkness Out There’ stories both go on stories of self-discovery and realization, although they are placed in different situations. Lively creates a character called […]

The Red Room, which is the pre-1914 text, is entirely set within a large country house. On the first page the house is clearly described to the reader including “a creaking door”, “a queer old mirror” as well as revolting characters with grotesque physical deformities such as “a withered arm” and “decaying yellow teeth”.Farthing House […]

Language was used effectively by mystery writers in the 19th Century to create a feeling of terror in their readers. With regard to the three short stories you have read, namely “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, “The Red Room” by H.G. Wells, and “The Judge’s House” by Bram Stoker, discuss the following: These three […]

This adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood and werewolf mythology explores the horror and sexuality of fairytales. The girl, Little Red Riding Hood, weaves a series of complex fantasies revealing her confusion about men, sexuality and desire. Little Red Riding Hood is a young girl in the story who is only just becoming a woman. […]

This poem by Thom Gunn, tells a story of a man dreaming about a conversation between himself and another incarnation of himself. The other man is a red-coat and seems bloody and tortured, but he keeps on chanting ‘I regret nothing’ and some variations of it.The man arrives in a cave, and goes to sleep, […]

In this essay, I will analyze how H G Wells has portrayed fear in The Red Room. I will concentrate on fear-related aspects and evaluate the effectiveness of the writer’s techniques to convey them. I aim to support my arguments with relevant quotes in my essay. The Red Room, a short story of the 1800s, […]

This essay is written to compare the tension between these two stories, ” The Red Room” by H G Wells and the “Farthing House” by Susan Hill. To do this differences and similarities between the stories must be compared, by looking at certain aspects of the story that effects the tension in the stories. These […]

I think the most successful ghost story; out of ‘The Red Room’ by H. G. Wells and ‘Farthing House’ by Susan Hill is the latter. Both of the stories that we have read explore the feelings of horror and fear. In each story the characters react very different to the different types of ghost that […]

After having read the passage several times, it is comprehensible that the evident meaning of it is what she (the young woman about to marry) feels, thinks and experiences in this new phase of her life. The themes are the ones of apparent love, which suggests that the proceedings in this passage are only superficial […]

The three characters I have chosen are the Narrator from Charles Dickens’ “Confessions Found in a Prison, Isaac Scatchard from Wilkie Collins’ “The Ostler” and the Narrator from H.G. Wells’ “The Red Room”.In C. F.I.P (Confessions Found in a Prison) the narrator seems quite a normal man, but is driven to the murder of his […]