This essay will begin to look at the stories, ‘The Darkness Out There’ and ‘The Red Room.’ Both of these stories seem to hold at first glance similar themes but closer reading and analysis show the reader that there are different attitudes to the main theme fear.
This essay will try and take the main ideas and compare the differences in attitude towards ghosts, fear of the supernatural and the state of mind of the main characters through the author’s use of language.
The emotion fear, is found quit differently between the two stories, The Darkness Out There is set in an area in the woods, its an area where people do not want to go alone this means that people are scared of the area. However, The Red Room The Red Room, is a room in an old house, it’s a room that frightens people hence, people do not want to go into the red room.
The people living around each place have their own myths and stories of the supernatural. In The Darkness Out There, little children made up......
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