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    full of tensions" Explore the ways that Golding achieves these tensions and what they bring to the novel ‘The Spire’ revolves around Jocelin and his quest to have a spire built on the cathedral. Through his blind faith‚ Jocelin accepts the cost that this building is having on the cathedral and the people that inhabit the cathedral. Tension is built throughout this novel in a number of ways‚ most notably in the impact that the building of the spire has on the people around Jocelin. Tension is achieved

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    The entertainment industry have been known to use heavy foreshadowing in an attempt to create high levels of suspense. It helps to create an edge-of-the seat feeling to keep the audience fascinated in the work. The use of direct foreshadowing and the effect of suspense is commonly shown through John Steinbeck’s short novel‚ “Of Mice and Men”. Written about two migrant workers in the midst of the Great Depression‚ this useful technique helps illuminate the previous experiences of the characters as

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    that Steinbeck uses adverbs to describe people’s actions. Steinbeck uses the phrase he lay ‘rigidly’ to describe the way Candy is feeling‚ which obviously is very upset about the fact that his dog has been taken away to be shot; George is being careful of Candy’s feelings and shuts the door ‘gently’. When Slim talks ‘loudly’‚ it is to fill the silence that is created as the men wait for the inevitable shot but because the silence is so strong‚ even Slim is intimidated by it. Steinbeck uses

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    How does Kazan create tension and suspense in On the Waterfront? On the Waterfront‚ directed by Elia Kazan in 1954‚ portrays Terry Malloy‚ the protagonist of the film‚ who goes on a journey to redeem himself for the murder of Joey Doyle. Terry‚ a former prize fighter‚ could have been a “contender” but now is a “bum” under the command of Johnny Friendly‚ a corrupt union boss. Throughout Terry’s journey‚ the director uses various methods to create tension and suspense in some of the scenes. Joey’s

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    crisis. In this analysis‚ I have analyzed several fractured narratives in the novel. Andres is the main character in the novel - and is someone that the writer wants to sympathize. Therefore‚ the writer used a fractured narrative so that he could create tension and sympathy in his novel. The writer had made a huge contrast - from a stadium of triumph and glory to people being shot. In the scene when introducing the Silver Lion‚

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    Priestley presents tension in various ways withing in the Birling family. At the beginning of the play‚ Priestley creates his tension by changing the colour of the lighting. The start is a ’low and intimate pink’ which could suggest a hidden tension within the family home. After the inspector arrives the lighting changes to a ’bright‚ harsh white light’ which makes the family look like they are in the spotlight of a police interrogation. This shows that there is tension at the heart of the Birling

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    extract‚ that Jekyll has only been experimenting with science produces dramatic tension. Throughout the extract‚ Jekyll confesses that he can only speak ’by theory alone’ regarding his attempts to create the potions to transform himself into Hyde. This represents his constant uncertainty about the results of his experiments. Therefore if even Jekyll‚ the man performing the experiments‚ is uncertain of the results‚ dramatic tension is caused for the reader to discover the results of the experiment. Jekyll

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    significant imagery to show the isolation and importance of the situation. There is a certain tension in the air when the two old friends reconnect after their falling out. They are alone in the middle of nowhere: “Victor looked around the desert‚ sniffed the air‚ felt the emptiness and loneliness” (159). Alexie uses imagery to encapsulate the situation that the two young men are in. To help the reader feel the tension of the isolated experience‚ imagery is used to describe the spacious and lonely desert

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    Tony Caselle Poling 1 Period 2 01/14/16 William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is widely known as a horrible tragedy about two teen lovers whose death bring their feuding families together. While there may be a dramatic ending to the play‚ it starts off as a funny and delightful comedy. To divert the audience’s attention from the cruel reality of the play‚ Shakespeare focuses on the parts that make it entertaining for the audience. If humor was not added‚ Romeo and Juliet would have been a very tiresome

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    My current‚ and so far only thesis for Shakespeare’s Sonnet 53‚ and entirety of the sonnets in general is that he wrote the sonnets in such a fashion that he created a unique work that embodies both a subjective-objective goal‚ as the objective of the story seems to be shrouded in ambiguity so much so that even it is lost in the subjective hurricane of theories and emotions‚ that generate a turbulence among those who read and study the pieces‚ so much so‚ that one page containing no more than fourteen

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