Tension in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and Susan Hills The Woman in Black :: English Literature

focus in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and Susan Hills The Woman in BlackTension is created in both(prenominal) Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and Susanhills the woman in black but in a different way. In Mary Shelleysnovel Frankenstein strain is created by the settings, most horrorstorys are. Both novels create tension in on that point settings by using thepower of imagination and the unknown. Central to both the plots is the report of dreams and nightmares.Both Frankenstein and the women in black were set at night and both in separate areas.Frankenstein was set in an isolated building in Ingolstadt,Switzerland on a dreamy night of November as the rain pattered dreadfully against the panes. This creates tension as she is using thehorror of the unknown in the isolated building. Candle was nearlyburnt out.Mary Shelley also creates tension in her novel by using thedescription she does when the creature has just been created,His yellowed skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteri esbeneath his hair were of a lustrous black and flowing.The way he describes this creature distinctly gives you the impression itis evil.In the novel Frankenstein after the creature is created the man takes grace and is disgusted with what he has created,The beauty of the dream vanishedFor creating a creature that leave have to live his life knowing thathe was a creation.This is where the tension starts to build and the creature decides totake revenge on the one who created him, shame will have its revenge.However in the woman in black her appearance is not described verymuch. Susan hill does provided describe the look on her face as as adesperate, importunate malevolence it was as though she was searchingfor something she wanted, needed- must have, more past life itself,and which had been taken from her. This helps prepares the reader in