Dramatic Irony Essays

Different types of irony within The Crucible The Crucible contains several examples of situational, verbal, and dramatic irony. Arthur Miller uses irony in many ways, his reason for using irony is to catch and keep the reader’s attention. For example he uses dramatic irony to create anxiety and tension within the story. Many other authors use irony to make their audience think about what is being said as well as what is going on in the story.

The irony the author A.C.H Smith values as a literary device in Labyrinth is using it to create suspense. To start, there are examples of verbal irony. Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which the speaker says the exact opposite of what she or he means. Here are some examples of verbal irony. To begin with, Hoggle says to Jareth “I am taking her to the beginning of the Labyrinth.”

The classic Greek Play; Oedipus the King by Sophocles is an intricately put together play that uses dramatic irony to toy with the audience’s emotions. The dramatic irony throughout the play allows the audience to know certain details that the main character, Oedipus the King, does not. The prophecy that claimed him from the very beginning, what he’s been trying to get away from the majority of his life, that makes him essentially blind, reads that; Oedipus will shed his father’s blood and sleep with his mother. Oedipus does fulfil his horrible fate before he knows he has already done it and the events that lead and entice the reader along the way make the dramatic irony in this play surreal. This changes how the audience perceives Oedipus,

Is it always wrong to die for the truth, or leave because of a white lie? The Salem witch trials of 1692 are the needle in the haystack of this question. The trials began because some teenage girls danced in the forest, and fell "ill" after they were caught. No natural causes were found, so the doctor suspected witchcraft...which lead to Tituba, the girl's slave, being accused of bewitching them, and, to save her hide, she began to blame others. A storm of accusations, hangings, and lies caught the town of Salem, the question popping up years later;Is everything as true as it appears to be?

In “Harris and Me,” the humor contains more Low Comedy as a result of jocose situations and circumstances. He includes quotes that are full of wit. He has farcical physical comedy involving body parts, and electrocution. He has clever, hidden ideas that may be hard to analyze, but subconsciously, put a smile on your face, making you laugh, even though sometimes you don’t know why. Let’s go ahead and bring out the big point right away.

Irony is vital to any play or story; it adds anxiety and tension for the readers to keep them alert and thirsting for more while reading. “Irony which is an important aspect of tragedy is used as a weapon” (Bhatia Page 1) in The Crucible. ”Irony usually involves a tension between the statement and the meaning, appearance and reality, aspiration and achievements” (Bhatia Page 1). Inclusive there were vast tense moments in the story. And in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller there is an abundant amount of dramatic irony seen throughout the Characters Motives, Behaviors, and Sworn Words.

2. Mr Birling is extremely arrogant. He makes very long speeches at dinner, discussing worldly matters which the audience would already know were incorrect. Priestley uses dramatic irony, where we know things that the characters obviously don’t. For example, when he insists that there will never be a war and that the Titanic is unsinkable.

Julius Caesar Irony Have you ever wondered how many irony situations went on in this play? I can tell you there was a lot. Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. Also there is Irony between the characters, irony between the audience and the characters.

The Irony of Charles Bukowski’s “8 Count” M. H. Abrams describes “irony” as “[…] dissembling or hiding what is actually the case; not, however, in order to deceive, but to achieve special rhetorical or artistic effects” (“Irony”). It can be grouped into three main categories: verbal irony, dramatic irony and situational irony. The most often used form of irony in literary works is dramatic irony. It involves a situation in which “[…] the character acts in a way we recognize to be grossly inappropriate to the actual circumstances, or expects the opposite of what we know that fate holds in store […]” (“Dramatic irony”). An example of dramatic irony would be hearing one of your friends talk about his plans to propose to his girlfriend even though you know that she has no intentions of getting engaged.

The Irony of ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ ‘The Cask of Amontillado’(Poe, 173) is a revenge story that involves two men named Fortunato and Montresor. Our main antagonist is Montresor, who fools and triumphs over the drunken prideful fool Fortunato. Edgar Allen Poe uses irony in a setting and action to foreshadow the demise of Fortunato. He uses a lot of foreshadowing along with verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony to show Fortunato’s misfortunes which eventually lead to his death.

Labyrinth The labyrinth is like the mind: always coming up with new discoveries and surprises. Author uses literary devices called irony to show surprise. In the labyrinth, it showed lots of verbal irony (not saying the truth, not saying the meaning), in which to show surprise. Some examples are: when Jareth says “Love me, fear me, and I will become your slave” to Sarah. Not true!

One rainy night, a girl name Sarah is home alone babysitting her baby brother Toby. She can not calm him, so she wishes that the goblins would come and take her baby brother. She hears silence and goes into his room to find that he is not there but a goblin king instead. He tells her she has 13 hours to complete the Labyrinth before Toby, her brother, becomes one of them. The author of Labyrinth, Jim Henson, uses the literary device irony to create surprise by using dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony.

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe uses both verbal irony and dramatic irony. An example of verbal irony is when Montresor says to Fortunato, “‘And I to your long life,’” in the catacombs. This was when the narrator and Fortunato just finished drinking their wine and jokingly toasts to Fortunato’s life. When Montresor says this, he is actually saying “And I to your short life,” because he knows Fortunato will die soon. It is like Montresor is using sarcasm.

“Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.” This quote by Ralph Steadman, exemplifies the heart of the character, Montresor, in Edgar Allen Poe's short story “The Cask of Amontillado.” Poe, a compelling writer, weaves together a story in such a way that it captivates and entices the reader to want more, even if it leads to mounting horror. He is an author that develops characters and reveals their complex personalities through descriptive language and imagery. The reader is able to imagine, in their mind's eye, the plot being played out.

Oedipus decided to leave Corinth fifteen years ago because he was told by the Oracle at Delphi that his fate showed him to eventually kill his father and marry his mother. He obviously didn’t want this to happen, so he left his town where he was brought up as a young man. He vowed never to go back because his adopted parents lived there, whom he thought were his actual birth parents. The Priest knew something was wrong with Thebes because he told Oedipus he could see the citizens huddled around temples and shrines praying, he saw the diseased crops, and saw barren women, and even all the poverty resulting in a plague in the city.

In William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well, Mariana states “no legacy is so rich as honesty” (All’s Well that Ends Well). This statement allows Shakespeare to make the claim that honesty serves as a necessity for a successful legacy.

Prior to the acknowledgement of Willy’s suicide, Miller provides Biff with a defensive but harsh persona in which he degrades Willy’s morals, and by doing so, Biff feels that he provides Linda – his mother and also role-model – further protection and admiration. This is illustrated as to when Biff suggests that Willy ‘[spews]..vomit from his mind’ and also as to when he is presented to be ‘[evasive]’. Biff’s unreasonable and ambiguous manner is significant as Miller induces dramatic irony towards the audience, along with catharsis: an emotional release for the audience, as Biff is the only character that knows of Willy’s affair. On the other hand, after being exposed to the true nature of Willy’s mind set, Biff is presented to show sympathy

1. The irony in the statement of the unclasp between the Christ of the gospels and the people of Salem. 2. The people said what they wanted to say even if it wasn’t true in order to get them in trouble because that is what they wanted. 3.

The Greek myth about a king who accidentally killed his father and married his mother is a well-known tale today, as was it in 400 BCE. The play, Oedipus the King by Sophocles, dramatically depicts how this tragedy came to be. The significant influence of religion at the time forces the hand of many characters through their fear of prophetic oracles from Apollo. When Oedipus pursues his quest for the truth in response to an oracle, he is lead to his downfall, forging him into the archetypal tragic hero. Thus, dramatic irony, the situation in which the audience knows crucial information that the characters do not, is created.

“I’ll re you, I’ll fa you. Do you note me?... Pray you, put up your dagger and put out your wit.” (4.5.124-128) Peter, a Capulet is talking to the musicians right after they learn that Juliet is ‘dead’, and he uses musical puns ( re, fa and note) in which his lines can be delivered comically in the tragic scene. However, the second musician follows up his threatening joke with a proposition the fight, quickly turning the scene from somewhat amusing to downright aggressive.