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Essay / Tension in Well's Stories - 2255
In the short stories, Wells creates tension (a feeling of expectation) by using: personification, dramatic irony, and vivid imagery. Many of these techniques recur throughout the stories and certain values and moral viewpoints are also frequently discussed. Many of the values Wells expresses through his writings were advanced for the times in which he lived. The tension in Well's stories is initially created through the titles "Red Room" and "Cone". Unlike "Treasure in the Forest" in which the content of the story is immediately explained, these two titles leave the content of the story more to the reader's imagination, creating both mystery and tension. The name "Redroom" also creates tension because red is a very strong color that can be associated with blood; it gives the reader the idea that something bad is going to happen. In "The Cone", what the title actually refers to is not revealed until the end. As things begin to get more difficult for Raut's character, the reader may begin to guess that the discovery of what "the Cone" is will not be pleasant, creating a growing sense of tension as we reach the end. end of story. the characters' stories are created with very little detail. In "The Cone" and "The Treasure of the Forest", the main character is called by his last name. In "Redroom", no name or description is offered for the character. However, in "Redroom", lesser characters are described in more detail, usually by a prominent and often grotesque feature, for example "the man with the withered arm", which leads you to think of this character as being in some way sort of subhuman. The characters lose their humanity as no names are given, with the grotesque tour de force...... middle of paper ...... of all the stories, it was "Redroom" and the one I My least favorite was "Treasure". in the forest. I liked "Redroom" because it has all the hallmarks of a ghost story, it has a number of believable characters some of which are exaggerated to make them seem more gruesome than they really are. I particularly enjoyed the air of mystery created by the title and the words Wells used “walked through the cold echoing passage”. Give an impression of temperature and sounds heard by the character. I liked "Treasure in the Forest" the least because of how Evans betrays Hooker even though he is about to die. Wells uses a number of techniques to create tension in his stories, drawing on an understanding of human psychology and using the human senses as his tool. He uses them most of the time in all three stories, although he does so in different ways..