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Fear And Paranoia In The Uncomfortable Bed

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The two texts, "The Uncomfortable Bed" and the excerpt from Dracula both demonstrate fear of the unknown and shows the reader clearly what fear and paranoia can look like. However, Dracula's excerpt has a theme that surrounds superstition being true and dangerous while the short story has a theme of unnescessary paranoia. This is all through the respective story's enviroments and the feelings of the narrators.

Figurtive language is used throughout both texts but more so Dracula in order to get an eerie feel. Their enviroments are different and it sigifies where the paranoia is coming from. From Dracula it's descriptors such as "I took it that my eyes deceived me straining through the darkness," "They were a hundred times more terrible in …show more content…

"The Uncomfortable Bed" shows us a main character who has already decided what's to happen. He's insecure and we see this at the very beginning of the story with the quote "When I arrived, they gave me a princely reception, which at once aroused distrust in my breast. They embraced me, they cajoled me, as if they expected to have great fun at my expense." He hasn't considered that his friends were only greeting him and assumes the worse. Which, consequently has a negative impact on his trip and brings him feelings of paranoia and distrust. It isn't until the end that he finds out he was wrong with the quote, "The precautions I had taken in closing the shutters and going to sleep in the middle of the room had only brought about the interlude I had "een striving to avoid." With Dracula, the feelings that the narrator aren't decided, but they build and instead become intense. In the beginning paragraph the quote, "but the driver spoke to them soothingly, and they quieted down, but shivered and sweated as though after a runaway from sudden fright." demonstrates that yes there's something going on but the narrator is not worried. Nothing has built and nothing has intensified and the narrator will allow himself to settle down. He is only describing his surroundings. The reader is told that the narrator gets used to his surroundings with the quote, "In a few minutes, however, my own ears got accustomed to the

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