Umm.. Anti-Suspense?

"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet" (page 56) and then he did. Umm, anticlimactic?

What will the monster be like? I feel like it just happened and then the suspense came afterwards. Vick's little freakout created the suspense that we all expected to occur during the creation, which probably created more suspense that way.

I need to refocus.

I kinda thought that the monster would play a bigger role right after he was created, but he just sort of disappeared. This made me crazy curious as to what happened to Mario (the monster's name). "My enemy had fled" (page 60).. Well that's cool. I'm glad that all my thoughts about what Frankenstein was before reading this book were really, really wrong. I think maybe the purpose of making Mario runaway is to show Vick wallowing in self-pity.. he has time to think about what he has done and it sets the stage for the murder of William.

Dramatic Suspense!

Contrast the amount of information possessed by the audience as the play proceeds with the knowledge that various other characters have: what is the effect of such a contrast?

This is pretty obvious. Poor Othello is so out of the loop. In Act III, Iago has multiple conversations with different people, so the audience knows all sides of the story. In his asides or conversations with Roderigo, he reveals that he is not the "this fellow of exceeding honesty" (III.iii.259) that he claims to be.

But Because Othello believes Desdemona is cheating on him and Desdemona has no idea, suspense is created. Will Cassio and Desdemona live? (More importantly, will Iago DIE?)

Iago's extreme jealously has driven him to frame a good man against Othello, which will ruin many lives..

Desdemona is "most unhappy in the loss of the [handkerchief]" (III.iii.95) but Emilia does not say anything about it, which is really annoying. She has the power to fix it, if she would just tell Desdemona about Iago stealing it.