Give examples of irony, tone, and suspense from Shakespeare's play Othello.

In much of Othello, Shakespeare creates a suspenseful
tone.  In the first two acts, for example, we learn what Iago plans to do to and how he
plans to create his web of lies and deceit.  This is also dramatic irony as we, the
audience, know the truth of Iago's evil plan but Othello does not.  The suspense lies in
how Othello will react.

The tone, of course, varies
throughout the play as Shakespeare's characters take on a range of tones.  The suspense
builds at the end of the play when we know Othello plans to kill Desdemona and yet we
hope he does not.  We know Desdemona is innocent, and we hear her injured tone. Othello
himself expressed an enraged tone at the thought of Desdemona's infidelity yet a
remorseful tone when he sees what he has done.