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The stage directions influence the characters' feelings and emotions in the drama because it controls the different aspects of imagery, the setting, and even the plot. It controls how the characters act and what they may say to the audience/other characters in the ongoing play.
This helps build suspense throughout the play because it creates different tones and moods by using the stage directions to direct. It all depends on what the stage directions are, since it can establish a certain tone within plays. It can also build suspense if we, as the readers/audience, are able to see everything that happens to the characters, unlike them themselves, which is called dramatic irony.
