How important is the setting in the short stories you have read? :: English Literature

How important is the setting in the short stories you have read?In this assignment I testament analyse 5 short stories, which are all pre1914. These are The human being with the twisted lip, by Sir Arthur ConanDoyle, The blushing(a) Room, by H.G Wells, The Signalman, by CharlesDickens, A Terribly Strange Bed, by Wilkie Collins and The Ostler,also by Wilkie Collins.The stories all have an exterior location. For example, in the ablaze(p)Room, the corridors on the way to The Red Room. The language H.G Wellsuses, such as haunted, darkness and shadowy create a feeling oftension and suspense. This is even before you have reached the importantsetting. Compared to The Signalman, the way the settings areportrayed, there is very little difference. Some of the words used byCharles Dickens, such as dark, gloomful red precipitate and cold. Somesimilarities are that they both talk about darkness and lack of light.The interior settings play a significant part in just about of the stories.T he man with the twisted lip, there is an opium den. This sets thescene to a dark and gloomy setting, just as the authors did with theexterior setting. The authors are always using dark and gloomysymbolism. The opium den is described as gloomy, dark and blackshadows. This gets you on the edge, and you want to read on. Incomparison to The Red Room which uses shock and surprise. Where itsays the junior duke had died, it goes on to say, headlong down thesteps. This immediately shocks you because it is such a horrificdeath. This therefore is a very important part of the setting. Inaddition, when the candles skip to go out, the character panics. Thewriter uses phrases such as suddenly went out, black shadow sprangback to its place and darkness was there. This excites the reader,and you want to read on. alike the writer uses short, sharp sentencesto emphasise the panic and terror, which the character is feeling.Also the sub characters help to portray the eeriness of the story. InThe Red Room, there is a man with a withered arm, and a nonher withdecaying yellow teeth. To the reader this is a very unpleasant andsickening thought. The people who spread the myth of The Red Room helpto give out a horrific feeling to the story. In The man with thetwisted lip, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describes the people in the opiumden as bodies, not as people. This shows that he does not see the