Similarities Between Paranoia In And Then There Were None Andthe Red Room

In Gothic Literature, there is usually some type of setting that tends to creep people out, whether it be the readers or the characters. In ¨The Red Room¨ that particular setting is a specific room inside a remote castle. In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None there is not a specific place that gives off this feeling, rather than the people in this said place. Paranoia plays a huge role in both stories as well. In And Then There Were None, the characters became more paranoid as the story goes on just as what happens in ¨The Red Room. What is pretty crazy is that both of these ¨spooky¨ places are a pretty huge part in what leads to the all of the paranoia. The characters in both stories become paranoid after something jurastic. In And Then There Were None it was after some of the murders have taken place and after they learned that Lombard had a gun. In ¨The Red Room¨ it was after he has in the room for a while and he started seeing the feared beings that allegedly haunted said room …show more content…
Instead you are just given clues as to who is speaking, such as ¨the man with the withered arm¨. This is in contrast to And Then There Were None where you know the names of pretty much every single character. Also in ATTWN Christie makes the destination of where all the characters are heading to extremely well known. But in ¨The Red Room¨ H.G. Wells makes it so it is unknown where this alleged room is until later on in the story when the narrator starts having flashbacks about the past of this room and the castle it is located