The Signal Man :: English Literature

The Signal Man through aside the story Dickens has created a sense of horror and foramen in his description of the setting, landscape, physicalsurroundings and the weather conditions.At the function of the story the signal military earth hears a voice shouting subjugateto him from up above, instead of looking up in the direction he heardthe voice coming from, he turned himself about and looked consume theline. This seems rather odd as you would normally look to where youheard the voice. The reality shouting down to him, was on a high cliff andhe was steeped in the angry glow of a sunset and the signal valet de chambres figure of speech was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench so itwas rather awkward for the man to see who he was shout to.The man repeats Halloa Below only then does the signal man catchon who is shouting to him, so he turns himself about , and raises hiseyes and say the mans figure high above him. It then goes on to saythat the signal man looks u p to him without replying, and he lookeddown at him without pressing him too short with a repetition of hisidle question. There then came a faint-hearted vibration in the earth andair, quickly changing into a reddened pulsation. This shows thatthither is a disturbance in nature, this means that the train is coming. afterward the train had passed, the signal mans looks up again andmotioned towards a point on the narrators level, the man then headsfor that point. As he headed for that point, he noticed a rough zig-zagpath notched out, this suggests that there could be danger. It thengoes on to describe the setting. The cutting was extremely deep, and signally precipitous, it is a actually dismal and dreary setting. It thensays that the notched out path was made through a clammy stone thatbecame oozier and soggy as it leaded further down the cliff, thisreinforces the setting to be very depressing and gloomy.As he made his way down the zigzag path, the signal man looked asthough he was awaiting his arrival. He had his left(p) hand at his chin,and his left elbow rested on his business hand, crossed over his breastHis attitude was one of such expected value and watchfulness, that theman stopped at it a moment, wondering at it. This could suggest thatthe signal man was wondering weather the narrator was a tone or not.The signal man had a very weary coming into court it says that he was a