"Two things are to be done: My wife mut move for Cassio to her mistress, I'll set her on, Myself the while to draw the Moor apart And bring him jump when he may Cassio find Soliciting is wife. Aye, that's the way. Dull not device by coldness and delay." - II. iii. 345-351
This post addresses #4 on pg. 1119, addressing how suspense is created. First off, sunspense is a very big portion of this play so far. Starting sort of in "the middle of things" in the lives of the characters, rather than before conflict occurs, the audience experiences the tension right off the bat. Next, suspense for me is created mostly in Iago's soliloquies. For example, in this quote, Iago has just told Roderigo that it will take a little time for him to win over Desdemona, but Iago's real intention is to anger Othello, discrediting Cassio, and getting revenge for not being promoted to lieutenant. Showing his alternate personalities, Iago's speeches show his true colors and create suspense by creating two scenarios: what the audience is honestly told about Iago's intentions, and who other characters perceive Iago to be. Suspense is also created in the discrepancy of the amount of information the characters know versus what the readers know. This creates the effect of on-edge eagerness to read ahead. Even though Iago spells out the entirety of his innermost thoughts, the reader feels an urge to continue because the reader does not know how or when those details will be revealed to the other characters or how his plains will unfold.
This post addresses #4 on pg. 1119, addressing how suspense is created. First off, sunspense is a very big portion of this play so far. Starting sort of in "the middle of things" in the lives of the characters, rather than before conflict occurs, the audience experiences the tension right off the bat. Next, suspense for me is created mostly in Iago's soliloquies. For example, in this quote, Iago has just told Roderigo that it will take a little time for him to win over Desdemona, but Iago's real intention is to anger Othello, discrediting Cassio, and getting revenge for not being promoted to lieutenant. Showing his alternate personalities, Iago's speeches show his true colors and create suspense by creating two scenarios: what the audience is honestly told about Iago's intentions, and who other characters perceive Iago to be. Suspense is also created in the discrepancy of the amount of information the characters know versus what the readers know. This creates the effect of on-edge eagerness to read ahead. Even though Iago spells out the entirety of his innermost thoughts, the reader feels an urge to continue because the reader does not know how or when those details will be revealed to the other characters or how his plains will unfold.
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