Compare the ways that Dickens builds tension in The Signalman and The Black Veil
Title: Compare the ways that Dickens builds tension in The Signalman and The Black Veil
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 1940 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Compare the ways that Dickens builds tension in The Signalman and The Black Veil
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 1940 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dickens main aim in these two stories is to create and maintain tension in order to entertain his reader. The techniques are very detailed when setting the scene, look at are the use of mood words when setting the scene, his depiction of mysterious characters, his choice of narrative style and his structure of both the stories.
The Signalman is a gothic short story where a railway signalman is haunted to a point where he …showed first 75 words of 1940 total…
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To conclude Dickens similar techniques in both stories for building tension. The most effective of which I think is the way he describes settings so vividly and strikingly.
In my opinion The Signalman is a better story as I find the end of The Black Veil somewhat anti-climactic whereas the ending in The Signalman I find makes me think more about the story I have just read.
