Opinion about “The Signal-Man”



The Signal-Man" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.  The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him.

The Summary



The story is quite simple, when young man have an encounter meeting with stranger who works as the signal-man on the train intersection. This event that cannot be explain at the first meeting, give strange impression on both of them. And by the second meeting, the signal-man open-up about was troubling him for  days.

More and more on the detail, I suspect there is a ghost somewhere – victims that cannot be identify yet, or be found, until the signal man solve the mystery of the appearance of the ghost. The only things we all agree that the ghost give a warning of ‘Danger’ that someone or something will be die if the answers of its mystery cannot be solve.

Opinion

In The Signalman by Charles Dickens we have the theme of uncertainty, fear, isolation, madness, trust and respect. There is also some symbolism in the story which may be important. The story is set at night time, in the dark, which in many ways mirrors what happen to the signalman. The continued use of the red lights in the story also lead the reader to think that something of an unkind nature is going to happen. Which it does. The signalman is killed by the train. It is as though the red lights act as foreshadowing to danger.
The end of the story is also interesting as Dickens leads the reader into believing that there will be an affable resolution to the story. The signalman has been killed while possibly chasing the spectre or at least thinking that he has seen the spectre again. What is also interesting about the signalman’s death is the narrator’s reaction. Although he only briefly knew the signalman he liked him and was attached to him.



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