How Does Hitchcock Create Suspense

Another tool that encourages the reader to continue reading is the mystery. In the mystery, neither the reader nor the protagonist (a detective, a police officer, or an ordinary person) knows who is responsible for a crime, a murder, a robbery, who is the traitor in a group, and so on (Alfred 1). The reader wants to continue reading to find out with the protagonist the identity of that person. Alfred Hitchcock contrasts the mystery with the suspense: "The mystery is an intellectual process as in a 'who done it,' but the suspense is essentially an emotional process." The mystery is an intellectual process because in it there is a question about an element of the past that does not represent a direct or immediate threat to the protagonist and therefore does not generate an emotion as clear as that of suspense. In the mystery, the intellectual curiosity of the reader is fed, so that he continues to read, with different suspects, false clues, reasoning about the real clues that bring the protagonist to the culprit, tense interrogations, anyway (Alfred 1).Of course, mystery and

In suspense, there is partly an intellectual curiosity to know what will happen. For its part, in the mystery, there is suspense about whether this will be resolved and with what consequences for the parties. The intrigue is halfway between mystery and suspense. In the intrigue, some characters reveal parts of a plan (to commit a crime, for example) or actions are shown without revealing their full meaning (Alfred 1). Specifically, the writer hides the purpose and motivations of the plans or actions or some of their parts. In this way, the reader will wonder what these characters are planning, what they are doing, for what purpose, for what reason, and will continue reading to find