The Landlady Roald Dahl Suspense Analysis

Suspense is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty of what may happen. Suspense is used in movies, books, and tv shows. to give the audience uncertainty about what is going to happen. Suspense is also what we feel as a reader or an audience. We don’t know what is about to occur so we may feel frightened or scared. Suspense can be effective by using descriptive words, or if in a tv show or movie they can show and play suspenseful sounds or show glimpses of what may occur next. Suspense is effective when the author of a book or the director of a tv show or movie doesn’t give away too many details about what is coming next in the book, tv show or movie. Suspense is most effective in movies, tv shows, and books because we as the

Dramatic irony changes the story so that the characters may never figure out some information. Suspense relies on dramatic irony because when we don’t know what's going to happen next but we do know what the characters are about to encounter it drives us crazy and it drives us to keep watching the movie or tv series or reading. In The Landlady Roald Dahl has many examples of dramatic irony because the main character is a young man who is just beginning to go out on his own, which tends to make Billy nieve. Dahl says, “‘Left? She said, arching her brows. ‘But my dear boy, he never left. He’s still here. Mr. Temple is also here. They’re on the fourth floor, both of them together’”(p.177). This is an example of dramatic irony because we know that the landlady is going to preserve Mr. Weaver’s body. We know she has had prior experience to preserving bodies because it says, “‘ It’s most terribly clever the way it’s been done, he said. It doesn’t look in the least bit dead. Who did it? I did. You did? Of course.” (p. 178) Roald Dahl writes, “‘if I happen to forget what you were called, then I could always come down here and look it up. I still do that almost every day with Mr. Mulholland and Mr. . . . Mr. . . . “Temple” Billy said, “Gregory Temple”(p.179). This is an example of dramatic irony because we know that the landlady doesn't really care about them, but Billy is so naive that he

It’s not what the author or director intended for us to feel is tone. Since suspense gives us that anxious feeling it affects how we feel about the characters, the movie or book as a whole, and how we feel about the author and the storyline in general. They also relate because during a suspenseful moment we tend to create the mood we feel at that moment, when we are anxious about what is about to occur and why we feel that certain way. Dahl shows mood throughout the whole story, by creating, awkward, weird, scary and suspicious scenarios. One way Roald Dahl shows mood in The Landlady is when he wrote, “‘I’m so glad you appeared, she said, looking earnestly into his face. “‘I was beginning to get worried”’(p.174). This is an example of mood because we feel weirded out. We feel this way because she says she’s was getting worried about him so that tells us that she was expecting his company. Roald Dahl also wrote, “‘ Excuse my asking, but haven't there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years”(p.179). We begin to feel suspicious about the landlady and her bed and breakfast because at a bed and breakfast there are normally people often staying there. Another example he wrote, “‘how amusing, she said. “But come over here now, dear, and sit down beside me on the sofa and I’ll give you a nice cup of tea and a ginger biscuit before you go to bed”’. This is an example of mood because