Compare and contrast how dramatist create and use suspense in the development of two or more plays you have studied.

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to be a catastrophe if there isn’t a buildup of anxiety and fretfulness in the audience.
Suspense is often remarked as a literary device in many interpretations of tragedies, what this means is that for the buildup of interest which every writer wishes to compensate in his writing for his viewers is considered to be an import factor for the development of the play. For the writer to connect one scene to the other, he or she needs to use suspense. If that X factor that a suspense should possess is excluded the importance of the text would be unidentifiable for the reader.
In Jean Anouilh’s “Antigone” suspense is established from the beginning, when Antigone goes on her secret mission, which is to obey the divine law which is to bury her brother. In this tragedy suspense is always encountered around the corner because of the dissident act towards the immoral behavior by Creon, and the contradictory actions which are committed by Antigone.
In Oedipus, the suspense which is ...

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