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An Analysis Of Alfred Hitchcock's Master Of Suspense

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Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock has been known as the Master of Suspense, and loves to put his audience on the edge of their seats. Hitchcock uses movies, stories, and essays to demonstrate how he believes suspense is made. The Master of Suspense states that suspense is made when the audience “plays God”. Hitchcock writes an essay to explain his theory. This theory is known as letting the audience play God. He uses his movie Rope as an example. In paragraph four, Hitchcock says: “It’s a brutal act, but if the audience does not know whether the young man is a killer or a hero they will not know whether to cheer or weep”. If the audience does know, they have basically been told all the secrets that the characters do not know, so they’ll
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