Free Essays on Suspense to Get Inspired & Learn by Example

‘The Maltese Falcon’ is a typical depiction of genre convention. The story follows the crime and mystery pattern and absorbs the reader into it. The genre convention used in the story complies with the underpinning themes of corruption, deceit, suspense, mystery. The darkness and murky atmosphere created by the author makes all the readers ready for the proceeding story. In the novel ‘The Maltese Falcon’, the author has used genre convention frequently to give the reader the effect of a crime suspense story. The genre conventions used in the story has given the story a real taste of crime Continue reading...

In the short stories The Bride Came to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane and A Flower for Emily by William Faulkner are ridden with a number of literary devices and among them is suspense. Crane and Faulkner use suspense from the beginning of their stories, and the reader gets to know the truth at the end of the stories. In The Bride Came to Yellow Sky, the gunfight between the antagonist Scratchy Wilson and Potter never materializes. At the same time, there is an internal struggle in Potter who does not know how best to break the news about Continue reading...

The name of the film and the narrative of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell that we here during its first minutes say encompass the main subject of the story: deterioration of a modern society, decline of morals which brings new unknown before evil that outmatches old heroes for whom there is no place in this world anymore. The narration about good old times and how everything is changing is a statement of the film, “I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure.” The main subject Continue reading...

Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his surprisingly suspense thrillers. His 1960 masterpiece, ‘Psycho’ was one of the best. The use of Mise-en-scène very craftily for most of the scenes and settings of the movie. To produce something so creative and suspenseful in 1060 is truly a huge challenge. In modern world, all the technology and special effects are there to support the vision of a director. This paper talks about the in-depth analysis of the movie ‘Psycho’ from the point of an argumentative level. The center of focus is the ‘Women domination’. The thesis of this paper is Continue reading...

Imagine being in a dark house and hearing the eerie sounds of an unknown voice calling out from a far off distance and then the figures of unknown people emerging from walls. The idea is quite scary to many readers and movie lovers, but this scare is exactly what Jackson and director, De Bont attempt to bring out in both presentations of “The Haunting of Hill House.” With the major characters Eleanor, Theo, the doctor and Luke, Jackson and De Bont draw the readers and viewers into a world of ghosts as each storyteller protest the social injustice and Continue reading...

Introduction

This essay is purposefully written to make an evolution on the movie named ‘Gravity’ which is directed, produced and co-written by Alfonso Cauron. The movie has been released in 2013 and it stars Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone, a biomedical engineer and George Clooney as a veteran astronaut named Lieutenant Matt Kowalski. In the movie it is shown that both Dr. Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski have been left stranded in the space when their space shuttle has been destructed by the space debris in a routine space travel and followed by their subsequent attempt to come back Continue reading...

Dracula 1931

First of all, Dracula violates Working Principles, as the viewer is attracted by the antagonist, by his charm and manners. Especially women. Secondly, Dracula describes us the example of forbidden love between Renfield and Mina, which violates the Plot material section. Plot material is also violated by Dracula’s showing us that we all will pay for our sins. However, his live is long and looks very seductive, his crimes do not look amoral. Renfield has some deep feelings to beautiful Mina, which are described in his attempts so send her away from Dracula. Dracula can be seen like Continue reading...

The genre of the heist film is a very particular and entertaining sub-set of crime film; as with any genre, there are a series of conventions that must be followed (Maltby 85). In this genre, the protagonists are often a rag-tag team of criminals of various allegiances and skills, who assemble in order to pull off an intricate ‘job’ involving meticulous planning and all manner of twists and turns. Most intriguing in the genre of the heist film is when directors and filmmakers play with the concept of time within these films; as the structure of heist movies is Continue reading...

Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, shot “Vertigo” and “North by Northwest” within a year of each other – in 1958 and 1959. Both films were very successful and are still watched by the contemporary audience. Alfred Hitchcock is a director with a prominent style and his pattern can be traced in each of his movies. Still, there are two with particular similarities worth of discussing and analyzing – “Vertigo” and “North by Northwest”.
Both films are thrillers with a music score by Bernard Herrmann. The main character (Scottie/ Roger) goes through some psychological and physical difficulties for the reason that Continue reading...

Gothic literature is a unique literature which is marked by a great usage of horror and mystery. The most common elements of gothic literature are the following: mysterious atmosphere and setting, passionate characters, forebodings, drama and the presence of supernatural. Another common gothic convention is the concept of crossing boundaries which means that boundaries between the common laws of conventional reality and the existence of supernatural may be crossed. In her book Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic, Anne Wiliams claims that there are a lot of boundaries in gothic literature. Moreover she adds that “Gothic systematically represents “ Continue reading...