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Discuss how the settings in ‘The man with the twisted lip’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘the Red Room’ by H.G. Wells and ‘The Signalman’ by Charles Dickens create mystery and suspense.
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Discuss how the settings in 'The man with the twisted lip' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 'the Red Room' by H.G. Wells and 'The Signalman' by Charles Dickens create mystery and suspense. The Victorians were extremely inventive when it came to entertaining themselves. Unlike us they could not simply slouch on the sofa, with the lights on bright and catch a quick episode of 'Eastenders', instead they often met up to share their ghost stories. With the ever flickering candle light casting ghouls all around, and that familiar blackness introduced by the shadows that managed to hide a twenty foot monster, it was no wonder that the Victorians were so petrified by such stories. In those days, everyone believed in everything supernatural so to them these stories where very real. I have read and studied the following Victorian short stories: The Signalman. By Charles Dickens The Man with the Twisted Lip. By Sir...
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