Characterization is a major role in novels and stories for the audience to be able to picture what each character is like and how they act. In the novel, hush, hush, by Becca Fitzpatrick, characterization helps the audience get a better outlook on the character, Patch. Patch is a fallen angel disguised as a high school student and both the Red Death and the Devil are both evil spirits. The characterization of Patch and the characterization of the supernatural characters in the stories, The Masque of the Red Death and The Devil and Tom Walker, are similar as well as different.
The supernatural characters in the novel hush, hush and the story The Devil and Tom Walker, have similar and different ways in which they are characterized. In …show more content…
In The Masque of the Red Death, the supernatural character, Red Death, isn’t a human body like Patch is in the novel. In the novel, Patch is characterized by the way how his presence can be felt by the main character in the book. In the novel, it says, “…I felt a familiar presence nearby. It was like someone had dropped a scoop of ice cream down the back of my shirt. It was the same shivery jolt I experienced whenever Patch approached” (Fitzpatrick 136) which shows how his presence was felt by the main character in the novel. Likewise, the Red Death gives off an eerie presence that can be felt by the other characters in the story. In The Masque of the Red Death, it says, “When the eyes of Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image…he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong shudder either of terror or distaste…” (Poe). This quote from the story shows that the Red Death made the Prince frightened by his presence. Unlike in the novel where Patch is a fallen angel and is human, the Red Death is an evil spirit in The Masque of the Red Death. The characterization of both characters is to make the audience picture that they both are dark and eerie to match the gothic style in the novel and
The supernatural characters in the novel hush, hush and the story The Devil and Tom Walker, have similar and different ways in which they are characterized. In …show more content…
In The Masque of the Red Death, the supernatural character, Red Death, isn’t a human body like Patch is in the novel. In the novel, Patch is characterized by the way how his presence can be felt by the main character in the book. In the novel, it says, “…I felt a familiar presence nearby. It was like someone had dropped a scoop of ice cream down the back of my shirt. It was the same shivery jolt I experienced whenever Patch approached” (Fitzpatrick 136) which shows how his presence was felt by the main character in the novel. Likewise, the Red Death gives off an eerie presence that can be felt by the other characters in the story. In The Masque of the Red Death, it says, “When the eyes of Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image…he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong shudder either of terror or distaste…” (Poe). This quote from the story shows that the Red Death made the Prince frightened by his presence. Unlike in the novel where Patch is a fallen angel and is human, the Red Death is an evil spirit in The Masque of the Red Death. The characterization of both characters is to make the audience picture that they both are dark and eerie to match the gothic style in the novel and