Othello- Dramatic Suspense

"My Daughter! Oh My Daughter" I, iii, 62

Dramatic Suspense is created throughout this play with over dramatisations. Often time there are character who all of the sudden want to kill themselves or someone else, only to be talked out of it moments late. The obviously happened with Rodriego, When he was so distraught over losing the love that he never actually had that he wanted to end his life by drowning himself. This was all over a woman that he hardly knew, and he was talked out of it quickly. In the time between Iago talking him out of it and him proclaiming suicide, there is suspense created with the audience. Will he kill himself? Why would he kill himself? Possibly, they root for him to do it, because then they do not have to worry about him killing Othello, in a moment of pure  insanity. Suspense is created, in the fact that it is a Shakespearean play, and some one has to die. The reader hopes that someone is not a main character, or tries to figure out who it is throughout the play.