The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet written by “William Shakespeare” in the late 1500’s in which two exquisitely beautiful lovers took their lives taken. (add details)In the play; Shakespeare shows how young love can lead to unexpected consequences.
Shakespeare’s play is full of dramatic irony. For example he demonstrates dramatic irony when romeo drank the poison potion and dies. Romeo believes that juliet dies but the audience does not. That shows dramatic irony.
Another of shakespeare’s irony is Situational. For example... Going into the story of Romeo and Juliet, most people think that they will hear a love story. However, in the story is actually a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet is actually a story of how two young teenagers lost their lives.
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, where a boy and a girl fall in love with each other during a party hosted by Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet. The two teenager decide to get marry, despite their family's hate for each other and only meeting each other a few hours ago. However, the Montagues (Romeo’s Parents) and the Capulets end their feud after they discover that their children killed themselves. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by Juliet’s parents, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.
One example of expertly used irony is when Hamlet is talking to his mother when he hears a noise behind the curtains, so he stabs the figure behind the tapestries thinking it is Claudius, “How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!” (3, 4, 24), only to find out it is Polonius. This irony can be interpreted as dramatic irony, because the audience knows Polonius is behind the curtains while Hamlet does not. It can also be interpreted as situational irony, because Hamlet suspects that the person spying on him is Claudius. Wanting to avenge his father, he stabs him through the curtain but it turned out to be Polonius. Doing this initiates a chain of events that lead to his tragic death. Another prime example of irony increasing the enjoyment of the readers for the past 400 years is when Laertes is killed by his own poisoned sword. When Osric asks Laertes how he is doing right after he was scratched with his own sword, Laertes responds, “Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric. I am justly killed with mine own treachery.” (5, 2, 308-309). It is quite ironic that Laertes is murdered by his own plan. One would expect Laertes to draw first blood as he is a better skilled swordsman than Hamlet. However, he dies by poison first because the sword that was intended to kill Hamlet was used on him; this is situational irony. Irony brings a greater depth to the story.
In both A Streetcar Named Desire and Hamlet, Tennessee Williams and William Shakespeare, respectively, demonstrate their abilities to create engaging plays which work on several levels in order to produce the desired effect. One of the most important characteristics of these plays is the playwrights' success in using their words to create the worlds surrounding their works. Both Shakespeare and Williams effectively use irony in the aforementioned plays, both in the plot and with specific symbolism, to create mildly existential environments where effective irony is a confirmation of fate and justice. Immediately apparent to the reader upon completion of these two works is the glaring appearance of irony in the plays' plots. For example, in A Streetcar Named Desire, a great deal of dramatic irony is created when the audience is made aware of details that characters are ignorant to.
In Hamlet Shakespeare uses Dramatic Irony many different times for many different purposes, today I will be discussing one of those examples. This particular example comes from Act I, Scene V and it reads; “Now, Hamlet, hear. ’Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forgèd process of my death Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown.” (I:V:34-40). Firstly, this example of dramatic irony has a major impact on the reader’s sympathies towards some of the characters in the play. Secondly, this example of Dramatic Irony develops the Ghost, Hamlet, and King Claudius’s character immensely. Lastly, this example of dramatic irony has a big impact on the conflict of the play as well as the theme of the struggle for justice in the play.
One Greek tragedy full of irony is Euripides’ Medea. It is ironic that Jason remarries Glauce to improve his status but instead ended up with nothing at the end of play, and though King Aegeus was sterile, Medea was able to create and execute a ploy that was clearly productive while staying at his palace. Euripides employs verbal irony when Medea fakes compassion towards Jason and Glauce but really intends to keep her original plans to kill her children. There’s dramatic irony in the fact that everyone is aware of Medea’s plan to poison Glauce, but Jason unquestioningly and unknowingly delivers the poisoned items to his wife while thinking that Medea has truly come to her senses. Situational irony is seen in the ambivalent emotions Medea displays throughout the play: she’s incredibly vindictive and resolved to extract revenge on Jason, but she also struggles with remorse and uncertainty about the prospect of murdering her children to get back at him. Lastly, when the chorus says that the will of the gods is inexplicable, it’s ironic for modern-day readers that, as brilliant as ancient Greeks were, they used many deities to explain the result of human
Dramatic Irony is when the irony that is in speeches or text is expressed through a workable structure. The audience knows what’s happening, but the character themselves do not know what’s happening or what’s going to happen. The character is unaware that this is happening, but the readers know how this story will lay out. In the story “The Bicycle” by Jillian Horton, Hannah is a young girl who loves to play piano. Hannah’s aunt, Tante Rose knows how to play so she says that she will teach Hannah how to play but she must obey her aunts rules. One of her aunts rules is that Hannah cannot ride a bike. Hannah has never ridden a bike and all of her friends have, and Hannah wants to ride a bike. The author uses dramatic irony because the readers know that Hannah will ride a bike at some point in her life. The author makes the dramatic irony important because if the author didn’t tell us that Hannah has never ridden a bike, we wouldn’t know why she would want to ride one so badly. This is dramatic irony instead or irony because irony is when the readers expect something to happen and it turns out the opposite way. In this story the reader knows that Hannah will ride the bike and Hannah ends up riding the bike at the end of the story. If Hannah didn’t ride the bike the story would not have ended like it did and then the author would have used ironically. In the short story “The Possibility Of Evil” by Shirley Jackson,
Romeo and Juliet, published in 1597, is known as one of the greatest tragedies is history. A young girl, Juliet, has fallen in love with Romeo; however they cannot be together because their families hate each other. This causes them to keep their romance and marriage a secret. However this leads to many consequences and in the end death. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the secrecy helps develop the theme that keeping secrets will never end well.
Shakespeare also uses situational irony. This occurs when the results of an action or event are different than what is expected. An example of irony occurs when Macduff talks to Malcolm and discusses the tragedies that are taking place in Scotland. Without knowing that his own family has been slain, Macduff says, "Each new morn/ New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows/ Strike heaven on the face" (4.3.4-6).
Irony is very commonly used in literature. It is when something totally different from what was happened takes place. Irony is of three main broad types-verbal irony, dramatic irony and irony of situation. Verbal irony or sarcasm refers to the situation where the character deliberately means the opposite of what he or she is saying. Irony of situation or circumstance refers to a situation when the opposite of what is expected happens. Dramatic irony is the most commonly used one in plays. It refers to a situation when the reader is aware of the truth of the situation or the significance of what the writer is saying or even the consequences but the protagonist himself is not. We find a lot of irony profound in Shakespeare’s plays like Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and even Macbeth. In Macbeth, the entire scene 4 of the first act is drenched in dramatic irony mainly on Duncan’s part and at his expense.
Although heartrending and disastrous in nature and conclusion, Romeo and Juliet is filled with humor brought to the reader with a variety of literary devices. This is very evident throughout the play because William Shakespeare, through the immense use of puns and sarcasm, creates comedic effects in tragic plays such as Romeo and Juliet.
Dramatic irony is shown throughout the book Oedipus the king. In many instances it makes the reader cringe throughout the book. Oedipus went through many trials which made the world of Sophocles, the reader, and the book characters crumble. There wasn't one person the book did not affect. This book made a real dramatic approach to irony, irony is sometimes funny or odd but in this case it was hurtful and very emotional.
One example of dramatic irony is when Oedipus is looking for the killer of the king Laius-his father. The irony here is that he is looking for himself because he is the murder of his father. Oedipus knows that he killed someone, but what he does not know is that it was Laius, the one he murder. Oedipus wants to punish the person who killed Laius, but we, the audience know that Oedipus was the one who killed Laius. Also Oedipus married Jocasta without knowing that she is his mother. We, the audience knew that he was Jocasta's son, but he was unaware of that.
Comedy has always played a part in numerous performances to enrich happiness and lighten the impression. The theatrical production, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is filled with various entertaining elements and characters. Mercutio, an enthusiastic character, is in the middle of the Montague and Capulet family feud that creates destruction and calamity in the city of Verona. He uses animated mockery, vivid dreams, and mischievous teasing to change the melancholy atmosphere. Many comedic elements occur throughout the play, and through these hilarious events, Shakespeare shows even in a tragedy the tale can be amusing.
Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy written by William Shakespeare that has forever changed people's views about love and how it can affect one's person. The story's complexity makes it hard to thoroughly understand what is going, on but the author William Shakespeare simplifies it for us by using quite a few literary elements such as imagery, syntax and etc. Specifically, these elements will be occurring in act 2 scene 2.
Depending on how the reader and author see it, humour can be interpreted in multiple ways. In both Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, different aspects of irony are implemented to create an entertaining story line. The use of dramatic irony portrays the characters in an irrational and humorous light, through the verbal exchanges among those with alter egos; foolish actions originating from adverse situations; and the implications of dramatic irony in love.