In Julio Cortazar’s story, “House Taken Over,” Cortazar creates an atmosphere of fear by giving the illusion of the unknow. He does this by not letting the character or the reader know what is going to happen. For example on page 39 paragraph “ the sound came through the muted and indistinct a chair being knocked over onto the carpet or the muffled buzzing of a conversation he later the narrator describes hurling himself at the door to stop the intruder. The second way the author creates fear is by making the characters fearful of the intruder, on page 42 paragraphs 26-28 the narrator asks irene “did you have time to bring anything” and him remembering leaving behind fifth teen thousand pesos in his wardrobe. The third thing that the author
Monsters will NEVER ever die: all cultures around the world have them and have had them since people first thought of them. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, Stephen T. Asma, in his essay, Monsters and the Moral Imagination, describes how we look at and are drawn to monsters. But not just monsters, murderers and psychopaths also. Monsters never age, ranging from the first civilization to now. In Asma's essay he asks, "Why do monsters exist?
The teleplay “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” by Rod Serling, is all about prejudice and suspicion. It tells the story of the citizens of Maple Street, which is the victim of an alien invasion. The neighbors turn on one another in suspicion and end up just about wiping each other out. The teleplay negatively criticizes the people of Maple Street, showing that they reacted poorly and should be an example of what not do to in a tense situation.
Holly Bender 5/2/2023 Prof. Quattlebaum Science Fiction Breaking Barriers in Twilight Zone “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone,”.
Literary Analysis Suspense. It's what makes us sit on the edge of our seats at movies, or has us biting our nails as we read. It’s the backbone behind any classic horror film where the babysitter keeps getting unknown phone calls about checking the children and she asks the police to trace the call only to get a call back saying it's coming from upstairs.
One of the themes in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is that fear can prevent people from doing the right thing. The theme is developed by the two main characters, Bruno and Shmuel. Shmuel is a Jewish boy that is in a concentration camp and Bruno is the son of an SS officer. And through unlikely circumstances they become friends. But fear takes hold of them and makes them help themselves and not each other.
The Power Of Fear in “Lord of the Flies”: No Greater Illusion Than Fear Fear is intangible yet has perceptible effects. It plays a significant role in human behaviour. Each individual reacts to fear differently, some overcome it, while others give in to it. In William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” the theme of fear is discussed and it becomes clear that fear has the power to take over not only one’s mind but also control one’s actions.
Once the reader begins to question the lack of explanation surrounding the event, a suspenseful tone beings to grow. Due to the unexpected
In the mountains North of the Golden Valleys lived hideous creatures that were feared by the humans living in the South. Though they were never seen, it was said that they lurked in the shadows, waiting patiently for the perfect moment to strike. Despite the obvious lack of clear evidence of the existence of said creatures, countless tales and songs existed. Those stories centered around a legend that really existed, for it was experienced on the longest night of the year, when one of the many princesses of the Golden Valleys would vanish in thin air.
In “Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, the characters and the places advance the plot because everyone was blaming each other. According to the writer, Steve and Don saw something in the sky. “What was that? A meteor?”The reason he says that is because they see something in the sky and they want to figure it out. Also according to the author Tommy tells Steve not to leave Maple Street.
One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most known attributes is his use of fear in many of his stories. He used words and images to instill the fright into his readers. He strung together scenarios that happen to his characters that encapsulates real fears that a reader could have. Poe would use fear in his stories in multiple ways. A story could relate around a certain fear.
The dense, thick smog enveloped every living thing, turning them into thoughtless creatures. The grey, rectangular structures extended into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun to create eternal darkness. Invisible eyes stalked them from the shadows, the Health Agents, listening to every word just like living security cameras. The threat of contamination haunted every mind scaring them into devastation, the virus controlled every thought except those of the unique. Ethan Harwood stood in his grey business suit with brown hair, greying at the temples and his blue eyes, dulled with despair.
Meticulously directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo a film-noir psychological thriller has become the greatest movie of all times in America. A police detective John Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) gets crushed with vertigo and acrophobia after chasing a criminal on the rooftops of San Francisco, and watching his colleague fall to death. Criminal Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) places reliance on Scottie’s mental illness in order for the murder of his wife Madeleine ( Kim Novak) to appear as a suicide. Manipulation, obsession and guilt accompany Scottie during the pursuit of Madeleine.
Victor is frightened of the brute because his brute was turning more into a monster I know this because the creature has killed one of his siblings which were his brother. Victor hated the monster since he killed his brother, “Abhorred monster! a demon that thou craft! The maltreatment of the world below is too clement vengeance for thy misdemeanour. dolorous fiend!
The detective story usually places its characters into an old house, a mansion, and the feeling of claustrophobia and mystery arises from darkness, shadows, stormy weather and light strange reflections. Atmosphere of Gothic suspense came from the threatening feeling or fear enhanced by the unknown. At times, characters did not know their ancestors and could not say where they came from (Day 1985: 123). Undoubtedly, an atmosphere of mystery and suspense is present in both kinds of productions.
