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An Analysis of the Use of Suspense in the Plot Development of Agatha Christie's Tape-measure Murder
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Title | An Analysis of the Use of Suspense in the Plot Development of Agatha Christie's Tape-measure Murder | |||||
Language | en | |||||
Publication date | 2020-12-01 | |||||
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Aye Aye Soe | ||||||
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Detective fiction is one of the most popular narrative genres today. It includes any story that has a crime and its solution as a central feature of its plot. In detective fictions, suspense plays a very important role and it supports the development of the plot. This paper focuses on the use of suspense in the plot development of the detective short story Tape-measure Murder written by Agatha Christie. The research was carried out to analyse the phases of the plot and to classify the types of suspense used in the story and to investigate the impact of suspense on the plot development of the story. In conduction this research, the phases of the plot were analysed by applying Pyramid Theory proposed by Gustav Freytag (1900) and the types of suspense occurred in each phase were classified by applying the classification of suspense proposed by Nino and Tarmar (2013) and Reedsy (2018). According to the research, the use of horrific suspense is mostly found to express the fact that each occurance of suspense affects the plot to be more horrific and shocking. It is found out that the use of suspense in the plot development provides a satisfactory impact on the readers who love detective fictions as it promotes their critical thinking and problem-solving skills together with the detectives. It is hoped that detective stories can be used as classroom materials in teaching English Literature. |
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detective fiction, suspense, plot development, Agatha Christie, tape-measure | ||||||
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2020 | ||||||
Yangon University of Foreign Languages Research Journal | ||||||
38-51 | ||||||
Vol.11, No.1 |