Open Document The Gothic Imagery in Red Room by Nicci French Gothic Imagery 1: The red-room is dark like blood. It emits strange noises and has a large mirror that distorts Jane's appearance. The late Mr. Reed died there, and Jane imagines his ghost now haunts the room, troubled by ...
Examine what aspects of the The Red Room by H.G.Wells and A Vendetta by Guy De Maupassant are typical of the horror and ghost story genre. At first look, both of these stories appear to be alike. One is a horror story and one is a ghost story. To most people these are extremely ...
若是一位明察秋毫的观测者,或许会发现一条几乎不可见的裂缝,从建筑前部的屋顶开始延伸,沿着墙壁曲折而下,直到没入那阴沉的湖水中。 Noticing these things, I rode over a short causeway to the house. A servant in waiting took my horse, and I entered the Gothic archway of the hall. A valet, of ...
him. This also builds tension because at the beginning of the story the man was making it out as if he was brave and wasn’t scared of anything, now that he is in the room he has a gun in case of a threat, this shows that he changes his mind now that he is in the red room...
oftherooms.WhenProsperoconfrontsthisstranger,hefallsdead.ThestoryfollowsmanytraditionsofGothicfictionandisoftenanalyzedasanallegoryabouttheinevitabilityofdeath,thoughsomecriticsadviseagainstanallegoricalreading.Manydifferentinterpretationshavebeenpresented,aswellasattemptstoidentifythetruenatureofthediseaseofthe"RedDeath...
we could dimly discern the spot where they threw out their side-branches into Gothic upward curves which coalesced to form one great matted roof of verdure, through which only an occasional golden ray of sunshine shot downwards to trace a thin dazzling line of light amidst the majestic...
eachoftherooms.WhenProsperoconfrontsthisstranger,hefallsdead.ThestoryfollowsmanytraditionsofGothicfictionandisoftenanalyzedasanallegoryabouttheinevitabilityofdeath,thoughsomecriticsadviseagainstanallegoricalreading.Manydifferentinterpretationshavebeenpresented,aswellasattemptstoidentifythetruenatureofthediseaseofthe"RedDeath....
She couldn't find him from the top of the steps, and he wasn't on the veranda.On a chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas. A stout, middle-aged man,...
There was no reason why the young man should not have come earlier, for he had dined at seven, alone with his mother and sister, and had lingered afterward over a cigar in the Gothic library with glazed black-walnut bookcases and finial-topped chairs which was the only room in the ...
when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have ...