We have to analyze "the red room" and decide if it's fantastic, marvelous, or the uncanny.
im pretty sure it's the uncanny but i'm stuck on how to back up my answer. Could someone give me some ideas please
These are the directions:
Considering the statement by Tzvetan Todorov (below) concerning what constitutes the fantastic, the uncanny, and the marvelous, explain why Wells’ story is an example of either the fantastic, the uncanny, or the marvelous. Refer to both Todorov’s definitions and to examples of dialogue and action from Wells’ story to support and develop your answer.
The fantastic. . . lasts only as long as a certain hesitation. . . [in deciding] whether or not what they [the reader and the protagonist] perceive derives from “reality” as it exists in the common opinion. . . If he [the reader] decides that the laws of reality remain intact and permit an explanation of the phenomena described, we say that the works belong to another genre; the uncanny. If, on the contrary, he decides that new laws of nature must be entertained to account for the phenomena, we enter the genre of the marvelous
-Todorov
im pretty sure it's the uncanny but i'm stuck on how to back up my answer. Could someone give me some ideas please
These are the directions:
Considering the statement by Tzvetan Todorov (below) concerning what constitutes the fantastic, the uncanny, and the marvelous, explain why Wells’ story is an example of either the fantastic, the uncanny, or the marvelous. Refer to both Todorov’s definitions and to examples of dialogue and action from Wells’ story to support and develop your answer.
The fantastic. . . lasts only as long as a certain hesitation. . . [in deciding] whether or not what they [the reader and the protagonist] perceive derives from “reality” as it exists in the common opinion. . . If he [the reader] decides that the laws of reality remain intact and permit an explanation of the phenomena described, we say that the works belong to another genre; the uncanny. If, on the contrary, he decides that new laws of nature must be entertained to account for the phenomena, we enter the genre of the marvelous
-Todorov