An analysis of the ways in which Thomas Hardy creates suspense in Chapter 56 of "Tess of D'Urbervilles" with reference to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart"

Suspense is defined in many different ways in many different dictionaries and languages. For example the Collins School Dictionary of 1999 defines suspense as "A state of excitement or anxiety caused by having to wait for something. The Oxford Paperback, published at an unknown date, defines suspense as "A state or feeling of anxious uncertainty while awaiting news or an event etc." As you can see from these dictionaries suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and/or anxiousness caused by the awaiting of news or an event. Suspense also causes excitement or nervousness which is what makes our heart rate speed up. In this essay I will analyse the ways in which the 19th Century author Thomas Hardy creates suspense in Chapter...