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“An very unusual protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's vigil.” Fear is the is the central theme of “The Red Room.” The narrator of the story is trying to challenge himself to try and spend the night in a supposedly a haunted room. Everyone else is terrified of the red room, but he confidently announces that he will prove that the room is not haunted. He himself does not believe in anything that is supernatural, and he is very certain that his reason is good and good sense will conquer whatever his …show more content…

As the story keeps going, the narrator’s fear gets stronger until it gets overwhelming in his self control. Fear is clearly the antagonist of the story. At the end, fear is revealed as a dangerous thing, that akins to an evil spirit, which counts among all the greatest enemies of all human beings. “The Red Room is something of a ghost story after all, it is about a young man’s stay in a haunted room so then they see supernatural things that happen, it really is a important theme to the story. The young man, (Aka The Narrator) is an “adamant skeptic” of all the things that are supernatural, and he considers all of the supernatural things going to be a product of a bygone age and to “dead brains” (like those that are old custodians that he meets). He wants to prove to all of them that there’s nothing supernatural about “The Red Room”. After the night is over, he still wants to stick to his story that there will never be any ghosts. A lot of odd things happen over night that it might be possible to wonder if he did see a ghost after all. At moments, he thinks the sounds as if there actually is seeing one. One of the primary sources of the kind of fear that stresses the narrator of “The Red Room” is that his active imagination to be

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