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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***
Synopsis:
In "The Signal-Man," Dickens makes supernatural beings interact with real people in realistic situations to express concerns about human interconnectedness. His better-known story A Christmas Carol (1843) employs the same strategy. Unlike A Christmas Carol, however, "The Signal-Man" is a pessimistic story with a sad ending.
In "The Signal-Man," a ghostly apparition either warns or belatedly informs a helpless watcher of fatal tragedies. In nineteenth century fiction, the railway was often used to symbolize anxiety about technological progress obliterating traditional ways of life and supplanting intimate social connections with impersonal technological systems. This anxiety is evident in "The Signal-Man" as tragedies occur despite of the carefully constructed means established to ensure safety: telegraph signals, red lights, flags, and bells. Dickens emphasizes the signalman's careful attention to his duty in his faithful adherence to routine and his constant watchfulness. Nevertheless, even when they are conscientiously deployed, technological communications can be ineffectual in preventing the deaths taking place on the railway. The train seems to have an untamed power of its own, impervious to the stratagems of the people who invented it.
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