In this film, the director gives to the audience a lot of information and from the beginning they know what is happening but what keeps the suspense throughout the film is the idea that Brandon and Phillip would eventually be discover as they fail to hide their crime. Also what keeps the audience in suspense is the hypothesis of how the crime would be discovered, who would bust Brandon and Phillip, and finally what would their reaction be. But according to (…) in Hitchcock films there is usually an underlying topic, cover by a plot that involves unreal situations but what really wants to address of a personal issue that could be in a relationship or the daily life politics. In the Rope, the underlying topic could be homosexuality as both characters
behave oddly close despite manifesting being only friends, and by (1940s) homosexuality was considered immoral and bad. There could even be a psychoanalytical approach to this theme and even a justification of the murder, as Freud mentioned that in every person there are two driving forces the drive to love “Eros” and the impulse of death “thanatos”, if the person is not able to express the “Eros “, then his or her action would become impulses of death that range from self injuring to damage another person (…), in other words is the displace of the frustration. In the film it is shown that maybe as the characters are not able to express their homosexuality they decide to release this force through doing something that for society at that time is as equivalent as bad to commit murder. Similarly, the trunk could be a metaphor for their relationship and the fact that is placed in the middle of the living room, because everyone can notice they have a secret but nobody wants to talk about it.
Without a general supernatural stigma from the witches, the story would not be as interesting as it is and wouldn’t lay a clear foundation. The reader can enhance their experience by making predictions about the prophecies, thus grabbing the readers attention to continue to read. The role of supernatural is to also create suspense. Suspense of the prophecies gives the reader a sense of what’s to come next. In contrast this will make the reader have motivation to continue as it is a difficult text to understand. The following quote creates suspense as it shows the reader Macbeth is at decline point while constantly relying on the prophecies to save him The mind I sway by and the heart I bear. Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a mystery that offers great suspense and interest. This is because of the irony that Poe creates and the setting that makes a dangerous mood and foreshadows the victim’s death. In the beginning of the story, the narrator meets a man named Fortunato at an Italian carnival with the intentions for murdering him in the foreseeable future. The narrator talks with Fortunato saying, “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met,” (1). These first words spoken by the narrator show verbal irony because the narrator is not really saying that they met luckily. In fact, as I stated before, the narrator was planning this encounter, with the plan ending with Fortunato’s death. This proves to be suspenseful for the reader because they want to discover Fortunato’s actual fate while wishing they could tell Fortunato of the
Suspense is a key factor to the story, “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe. According to the Oxford Dictionary, suspense is the state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. Poe uses the senses to bring the reader aware of the building suspense. He does this by telling the reader about the ominous setting of all the chambers, especially the seventh chamber. The sound of the grandfather clock, sending sinister shivers throughout the party goers each hour, keeps them on their toes. Finally, the fast-paced chase of the intruder and the Prince build to the suspense at the final moments of the story.
Many horror stories can leave a mark on you. This could be a good mark or a bad one. Is the horror genre good for children to be reading. There are many ways to create suspense in whatever you are watching or reading. The short story “Tell Tale Heart” can definitely be one of the front faces of horror for the age group of 12 to 14 year olds. We student read many different types of genres. Reading these genres can unlock many more things in our learning potential. So does this mean that the horror genre is bad? When we crack open a book like the “Tell Tale Heart” we already know what we are in for. We are expecting a scary setting with probably a unsteady character. In the story “Tell Tale Heart” we have these components. In this
Suspense in a story is one of the most important parts of the work. Suspense gets the reader hooked to that story and hungry for more. Anticipating what will happen next. Waiting and waiting for either a good outcome or bad. Edgar Allan Poe is a genius with suspense and in his story "The Pit and the Pendulum" and the poem "Annabel Lee", he creates suspense by using an unreliable narrator, imagery, and diction. Using these three elements, he builds suspense in the reader causing the reader to want to read on and see what comes next.
...he chessboard. In this poisoning scene, the audience’s psychological changes are strongly tied to the elements that constituted by Hitchcock. As a master of suspense, he puts the audience in an extreme intense condition through the whole scene, but not the audience only get shock in one particular moment. When the Mrs. Sebastian says the plan should practice without anyone’s suspicious. In fact, the audience is the one who actually suspicious the most in the game of Hitchcock. The reason why we are the one in most suspense can explain by the audience could anticipate the answer before hand, but the character in the scene does not know it. The process is a “torture” to some audiences, because it is similar to the theory that a prisoner might be executed just in five seconds, but the process of waiting for the execution maybe five minutes, five days or five years.
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is a film which functions on multiple levels simultaneously. On a literal level it is a mystery-suspense story of a man hoodwinked into acting as an accomplice in a murder, his discovery of the hoax, and the unraveling of the threads of the murder plot. On a psychological level the film traces the twisted, circuitous routes of a psyche burdened down with guilt, desperately searching for an object on which to concentrate its repressed energy. Finally, on an allegorical or figurative level, it is a retelling of the immemorial tale of a man who has lost his love to death and in hope of redeeming her descends into the underworld.
Creating Suspense in Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. In the gothic genre there are numerous techniques the author can use. to add interest and suspense to a story, such as the choice of words. the time of day and pathetic fallacy, to name but a few.
William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is truly a masterpiece of writing, and a great example of this is Shakespeare’s use of the writing technique Elision to create a feeling of suspense, as well as provoking imagery and emotion throughout the play. This writing technique is used by making key events take place of stage. These such events were the killing of king Duncan, the death of Lady Macbeth and the beheading of Macbeth.
Personification is the best literary device that gives suspense. Personification gives the nonliving objects human like qualities meaning that the object can have more power than the object usually has. Also it reveals the suspenseful location the characters are in with personification. It creates suspense because it uses words to interest the reader. Personification proves that suspense is not only created with scary details but also with words with a different tone.
Edgar Allan Poe, controversially one of the best writers of all time, has written —what some people say are the “best of the best” short stories and poems of all time. “The Raven”, his most famous poem written in English, was how he received his title of macabre. One of Poe’s greatest ways of completing a story or poem is using mystery and suspense to give the illusion of a cliffhanger within his work. By using different literary elements and his personal experiences, Poe is able to express different emotions and details to construct formal suspense.
mind and it did not exist. We are told by the narrator that he thought
The 1975 film Jaws is remembered as one of the best examples of suspense and horror in cinema. Composed by the legendary John Williams, the soundtrack captures the audience and incites fear whenever there are tense moments. Spielberg’s expertise in cinematography and William’s skill in composing couple together to produce a fantastic movie that still scares audiences today.
The movie opened up on a street in the afternoon, directed towards an apartment where two young men were strangling another man with a rope. From the moment David had been killed and stuffed into a trunk, it was clearly visible that Brandon and Phillip shared an intimate relationship. Robin Wood discussed much of the films “Fascination from the equivocal relationship between the two murderers (the whole action can be seen as a working out of suppressed homosexual tensions)” (66). However, it’s a bit ironic that Alfred Hitchcock casted Farley Granger and John Dall, both homosexuals, to play the roles of two gay college students. What’s even more scandalous than the strangulation was the party Brandon had planned shortly after. Guests arrived to the scene of the crime, a stunning apartment with an incredible view that overlooked downtown New York. Shortly after, Brandon began to express his superiority by believing he could get away with hiding David in a large chest that would provide as the party’s centerpiece. The unknowing housemaid carried on, setting the entrée on top of the chest, which contained the co...
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