Thursday, January 27, 2011

Dramatic Suspense....again

In last weeks blog, I wrote a blog about how dramatic suspense is created in the play by having the facts never fully revealed to the readers. As I read farther into the play, I realize that as the play continues, more and more dramatic suspense is created, but for partially different reason. Dramatic suspense like last week's continues as Iago will tell us what he plans to do before one of his evil actions occasionally, but we are not certain of what his final goal is. He has already been promoted to lieutenant, but still he continues with his evil plan without fully revealing what his end goal is. By the readers not knowing this final goals, even more dramatic supense is incorporated. However, now there is another whole aspect of dramatic suspense being added not solely by what happens in the play, but because of what kind of play this is. Othello is a tragedy in which it is a play that the hero dies and usually others die throughout the play as well. However, I am now about to start Act V and nobody has died and I feel that the absolute climax is yet to come. With nobody dead yet, I feel that Act V is going to release a lot of action and emotion and having to wait and expect for this causes much dramatic suspense.

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