Part one of term paper
"The Red Room" is a short story that identifies fear and the power of suggestion. The story focuses on how the power of suggestion can cause fear, and how the setting of the story or of a place can cause fear even if the main character is cynical and is not initially apprehensive. '"Eight-and-twenty years," said I, "I have lived, and never a ...

Part two of term paper
... and many have violent and deadly secrets in their pasts. To add to this the narrator is already aware that there had been a fatal accident involving the young Duke who had fallen down the stairs, supposedly running away from a ghost. This adds tension because it makes the reader wonder what is going to happen to the narrator as he does not believe that the castle is haunted. The way that the past suspicious happenings appear in the middle of the story also creates a lot of tension, as reading fr ...