Tension in The Red Room, The Cone and The Superstitious Mans Story Ess

Tension in The Red Room, The Cone and The Superstitious Mans Story The Red Room, The Cone and The Superstitious Mans Story are bothshort stories which were compose before 1914. The Red Room and TheCone were both written by H.G. Wells and The Superstitious MansStory was written by Thomas Hardy. All three of these stories werewritten in Victorian Times (1837-1901). These were years of greatscientific and technological developments. The authors of the threestories show us a diminishing belief in intolerance and supernatural.The authors of The Red Room and The Superstitious Mans Story havewritten the stories in the style of a gothic one, although they dontend up being supernatural. However, The Cone has been written withno gothic features, but it shows technological development as thetitle itself contains the word Cone which is position of industrialterminology. Also, the setting is industrial and shows thedevelopment.The Red Room is about a while who goes to a house and in particul ar aroom which is seen to have ghosts in it and, in that respectfore, no one goes inthat room. However, this man goes in to prove there is no existence ofa ghost. We find out that no ghost is present in the room and therenever has been and its just that fear has conquer the person.The Cone is about a man and woman who are having an affair. Tensionis created as the man and woman who are having an affair are not surewhether the womans preserve has found out about what is going on. Atthe end the womans husband kills the other man and then afterthrowing him off a bridge on top of the hot, melting iron at thebottom, he realises he has done something terribly wrong. In contrastThe Superstit... ...nd creates more strain, whereas if it was daytime peoplewouldnt be as scared, although it may influence the readers ascreating tension. Feelings of characters creates tension in allstories, as it puts us in the place of the character and thedescription makes us feel, how the character is fee ling. This createstension and also maintains it, as we dont know what will happen next.Imagery such as metaphors, similes and personification maintains thetension during the stories. It makes us create a flamboyant picture,of what is going on. Sentence structure also gives us a sense oftension as the build up of sentences tells us an important part iscoming up, which creates anticipation for the readers.The work of H.G. Wells and Thomas Hardy has been successful and theway in which all three pre 1914 stories create tension and the way itis maintained.