How Did Hg Wells Create Suspense

When gothic literature is written, many different themes can be used to create a feeling of tension and suspense. For example, in “The Red Room,” Wells uses themes of supernatural and fear to give feelings of tension and suspense. On the other hand, in And Then There Were None Christie conjures that suspenseful feeling by using mystery and conflict between characters. Even though the authors use different methods, they both find ways of generating a feeling of tension and suspense. One of the ways that “The Red Room,” creates suspense is from its setting of a dark mysterious castle containing a supposedly haunted “red room”. As the narrator explores the castle and the red room, the gothic setting becomes a bigger part of the story and the narrator becomes overwhelmed with fear. In comparison, And Then There Were None also uses a gothic setting to create suspense and tension. The setting of the big mansion on an island cut off from the rest of the world allows some of the characters to let fear and anxiety seep into their minds and put them on a path of paranoia, as they realize there is no escape. …show more content…
The more the narrator explores the red room, the more he starts to lose his mind and become paranoid. Likewise, in And Then There Were None all of the guests are walking right into Justice Wargrave’s death trap throughout the novel, as they are each killed off one by one, all accordingly to the poem. Again, similarly to And Then There Were None, Justice Wargrave is seemingly toying with the nine other guests’s lives and sanity, as if he is playing a