Examples Of Dramatic Irony In The Ring

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The fourth, and final criteria of a modern short story is that the readers have more knowledge of events than the characters through the use of dramatic irony. An example of dramatic irony in “The Ring” is that the readers, and Lise know where the ring is, but Lise pretends not to know. Sigismund, however does not know. He also does not know anything about Lise’s meeting in the woods with the sheep thief, but we, the readers, do. An example of a different type of irony used by Dinesen in “The Ring” is in the line of Lise’s thoughts, “‘What an absurd person he is, with his sheep! What a baby he is! I am a hundred years older than he.’” (page 2, paragraph 2) This is ironic because it is, in fact, Lise who is acting like a child through her jealousy,

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