What is it that after all these years that can keep a reader glued to a novel? What is it that keeps the pages of a novel flipping? What is it that can make an hour seem like ten minutes? The answer is suspense: each novel of this genre constantly repeats the same steps over and over, yet each ...

In this essay I am going to explore the way that Shakespeare has written the play 'Hamlet' and also the devices he uses to create suspense. I will also try and analyse the dramatic impact the linguistic style and the devices have on an audience watching or reading the play. Throughou...

The Silence of the Lambs took the Academy Awards by storm in 1992, winning all five major categories, direction, screenplay, acting and Best Motion Picture; beating the odds in more ways than one. Dark psychological thrillers rarely win Best Picture (the last occasion was back in 1940, Hitchcock&ap...

Abraham Lincoln and Equal Rights With America struggling in a state of Civil War, the nation's very core was being shaken. Abraham Lincoln, who was president during this period, realized this, and delivered one of his most historically renowned speeches, "The Gettysburg Address". This speech ad...

As Daphne du Maurier finished her novel, she said to herself, "So it was. A finished novel. Title, Rebecca. I wondered if my publisher would think it stupid, overdone. Luckily (for me) he did not. Nor did the readers when it was published." Little did d...

Horror and suspense-filled movies, books, and stories are America's favorite form of entertainment. One of the most famous American writers is Edgar Allen Poe who wrote the two famous stories "The Tell- Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat". In the "The Tell- Tale Heart" and " The Black Cat" narrative and...

Overview The play is set in an imaginary town called Brumley, somewhere in the North of England. Mr. Burling has a selfish attitude towards life, and also an attitude to only care for himself and family, and basically forget everybody else, in fact, this is exactly what he tells a speech on at the ...

"Rear Window" Watching movies is what I do best, but all this time I have never watched anything so thrilling, tense and amazingly significant as an Alfred Hitchcock movie. His greatest film..."Rear Window" is probably Alfred Hitchcock's most perfectly constructed film. It takes p...

As a social critic and prominent feminist in the United States of the late 1880's, Charlotte Perkins Gilman had to overcome a lot of challenges. In the short story "the yellow wallpaper" Gilman once again defied society. The story is about a depressive woman who is socially c...

The film 'High Noon' is an excellent western film which effectively gives a portrayal of many key ideas through the techniques which the director uses. These ideas progress in meaning and depth as the film progresses. In each stage of the film brings about more suspense and gives a deeper...

Title: Pretend You Don't See Her Author: Mary Higgins Clark Number of Pages: 318 Publication Date: 1997 Summary Pretend You Don't See Her is one of my favorite murder mysteries that I have ever read. My favorite part of this novel is that the ending is very unpredictable. This...

Mid-term Break C.E. The poem I am evaluating in this essay is titled "Mid-term break" and was written by Seamus Heaney. The poem is about the laying out to rest of a four year old told from his older brother's perspective. I will be dealing with and trying to explain the ...

Mid-term Break C.E. The poem I am evaluating in this essay is titled "Mid-term break" and was written by Seamus Heaney. The poem is about the laying out to rest of a four year old told from his older brother's perspective. I will be dealing with and trying to explain the ...

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London on August 13, 1899. His father, William Hitchcock, a grocer, and his mother, Emma Whelan Hitchcock, brought him up. As a young boy he loved to travel, and by the time he was eight he had ridden every bus line in London and explored all of its docks and sh...

Positive Analysis Anthrax is a very infectious disease that is caused by the spore- forming bacterium, known as, Bacillus anthracis. Although there are many forms of Anthrax, only three forms that infect humans: inhalation anthrax, cutaneous anthrax and intestinal anthrax. Inhalation anthrax i...

RebeccaRebecca, a classic suspense novel written by Daphne Du Maurier is considered oneof the finest Gothic romance of the 20th century. It was first published in 1938, andbecame immediate best seller. Alfred Hitchcock gave it a yet wider audience when hemade it into a memorable motion picture. S...

Is Americas Pastime on Dope? Are steroids a problem in Major League Baseball? Since the early 1980's MLB has wanted to test players for steroids. MLB and the players have not reached an agreement in the player's contract for MLB to have the right to test fo...

Fighting Impaired Driving Impaired driving impacts all of us, the following are some things each of us can do to make our roads safer. • Wear a safety belt. • Be a responsible host. Serve food and have non-alcoholic drinks available. Don't let your guests drive after drinking al...

How does the writers create tension and suspense in the two stories that you have studied? In my coursework I am going to be looking at how the writers create tension and suspense in the two stories. The two stories that I have studied are The Red Room by H.G Wells and The Tell- Tale Heart by Edg...

Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" came as a shock to many viewers and received a number of complaints due to the content and sexual explicitness. There was a lot on controversy that evolved around "Psycho" as before the film was released Hitchcock produced a trailer in which he stared in a ...

Book Review 1 1. Name of Book/ Short Story: I Heard The Owl Call My Name 2. Name of Author: Margaret Craven 3. A List of 5 Books Written by the same Author: I Heard The Owl Call My Name Again Calls The Owl Walk Gently This Good Earth The Home Front 4. Interesting Facts ...

Romeo and Juliet Then and Now By Tyler Harris In Verona, an ancient grudge continues to throw new mutinies and violence between the Capulets and the Montagues. Through bad luck, Romeo and Juliet, the young descendents of those two prominent families fall in love at first sight. Believing t...

The Man in the Woods By Rosemary Wells The Man in the Woods, an action packed suspense story, takes place in New Bedford, MA. The setting switches between New Bedford Regional High School, Helen's (the protagonist) home, the woods, and the libraries & the Fairchild mansion. Rosemary Wells...

As I entered English this year it was with a knot in my stomach and a sense foreboding lingering in the back of my mind. I was not exactly keen to return to a subject that for me, personifies my inadequacies on paper. At a point somewhere around the second day of class we began a discussion on what ...

According to Henry James, characters are only as interesting as their responses to particular situations. The character's response in the two short stories I have chosen is the reason I chose them. In Jack London's "To Build A Fire" and Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell...