Dramatic Irony In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dramatic irony is in speeches or a situation of drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. For instance when Judge Danforth and Elizabeth Proctor were talking; Danforth: "We are given to understand that at one time you dismissed your servant, Abigail Williams...Why did you dismiss Abigail Williams?" Elizabeth:"She dissatisfied me; And my husband" (Act IV). This quotes shows dramatic irony when Elizabeth lies to protect Johns reputation, but what she does not know is that John himself has already confessed to adultery. Thus both of their reputations are damaged, John’s for adultery and Elizabeths for

Bottom makes more remarks to being an ass, but because he is a fool, he never realizes that he is an ass literally. Puck's prank had a bonus when Titania wakes to Bottom's singing and falls instantly in love, due to the potion, with him. Puck's enjoyment in trickery and Bottom's stupidity combine and make bad go to worse in this scene, but then again, this whole scene was to further the action of the

Helena puts forth the evocative themes of “hate” and “mock[ery],” clearly exhibiting that she feels quite a lot of emotion towards the way that Lysander and Demetrius are acting. Helena’s evidently very low self-esteem causes her to believe that Demetrius and Lysander are “joining in souls” or teaming up on her to make fun of her, when they are contrarily being quite affectionate. This clearly exemplifies how dramatic irony, a common theme throughout the play, can actually intend to teach the lesson that love is very complex and quite magical, conveyed by the fairies. Similarly to Helena, Bottom, a farcical member of the mechanicals that gets comeuppance for his high self-esteem by being turned into an ass by Puck, is also unaware of the reality of his situation. When Bottom comes to the realization that he has undergone some sort of change, he is still completely uninformed about his true state of being, but yet the audience knows exactly what has occurred. Bottom infers, “This is to make an ass of me” (3.1.99). It is very ironic that Bottom thinks they are “mak[ing] an ass of [him],” when in reality he has literally been transformed into an ass. This random, confusing aspect of the play symbolizes the randomness and complexity of love. Additionally, later in the scene, Titania admires Bottom’s appearance, demonstrating the blindness of love. Shakespeare evidently utilizes the comedic device of

Right after Bottom scared all the people with his ass, he meets Titania (Applied to the love juice). Titania immediately falls in love with Bottom and his ass’s head. When she hears Bottom sing, she says "I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again: Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note; So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape; And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me. On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee." (Act 3 Scene 1 Line 121). She treats Bottom like her own child, she feeds him, she sleeps with him and pampers him. This is a comedy, as it is absurd to fall in love with a person with an ass. When Oberon takes the spell away from Titania, she also thinks that it is not possible and is startled. She says “My Oberon, what visions i have seen! Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.” (Act 4 Scene 1 Line 75). Titania is a the queen of fairies and has a lot of power and reputation amongst her people, In Act 3 Scene 1 Line 139, she was so powerful, she could just say “I’ll give thee fairies to attend on thee”, and Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustardseed immediately came to serve her. Titania should not be under a spell. Imagine Julius Caesar falling in love with a hippo, it just does not make

Dramatic irony is defined as the audience knowing something that some or all characters don’t. There is a great example in Act 1 that best demonstrates dramatic irony at the beginning of Scene 5. Hamlet enters the room and his father’s ghost appears. The father tells Hamlet all about how his death was not an accident like the people of Denmark believe. He was not bitten by a

Dramatic Irony in Cyrano de Bergerac HOOK. Dramatic Irony occurs when a certain character knows something that another character doesn’t know. Cyrano de Bergerac consists of love, sword fights, eloquent ballads and dramatic irony. Cyrano even though he is chivalrous and eloquent he is conscious of his abnormal nose. Christian on the other hand is handsome but not eloquent.

There are many examples of irony in the book. The first example of irony is that Ky left the village that he was sent to, only days before Cassia arrived there with the rest of the girls

An example of dramatic irony would be when Baba tells Amir that the only major sin one can commit is theft. His quote that depicts this would be, “When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.” This is ironic because Baba himself withheld the fact that Amir and Hassan were half-brothers, meaning he stole his friend’s wife, as well as Hassan’s right to a family. He lectures Amir on moral and integrity, but refuses to admit to his own mistakes, which results in him living a false and immoral life. The irony in the relationship between Baba and Amir is that Baba tries to pass down positive traits to Amir, and Amir attempts to inherit those traits by trying to become more like Baba, but the most significant quality they both come to share is betrayal. Both father and son deceive their friends in different ways. Baba steals his friend’s wife while Amir refuses to help Hassan, and abandons him after doing so. Another one of Baba’s quotes that portrays irony would be, “Believe me that there’s no one you’d rather have at your side than a Pashtun.” This is also ironic given that Amir didn’t help Hassan while he was being bullied by Assef and the other kids despite being a Pashtun himself. The story starts off with an irony because while Amir’s motive for getting the kite was to make Baba proud, his father would’ve actually been disappointed if he had known about Amir’s betrayal to Hassan. “In a moment, I'd blink and rouse from this beautiful dream, get out of bed, march down to the kitchen to eat breakfast with no one to talk to but Hassan. Get dressed. Wait for Baba. Give up. Back to my old life. Then I saw Baba on our roof. He was standing on the edge, pumping both of his fists. Hollering and clapping. And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on

Another example of dramatic irony is when Jareth told Hoggle that if Sarah kissed Hoggle, he would go into the Bog of Eternal Stench. Sarah did not know about this, but the audience does know what is going on. Another example is when Sarah and her friends were facing away from Ludo- her doggish friend- when he fell into a hole. Sarah and her “gang:” all thought he disappeared. The audience knows what is going on, but the characters did not. Jim also uses situational irony- the irony where something happened that the audience and the characters don't expect it. One of the situations when this is used is in the beginning there are fairies, we all expected them to be nice and sweet, but instead they bit Sarah's finger. Later in the movie, Sarah found herself in a junkyard in the labyrinth, she found an exact replica of her house. Her house fell apart while she was in there. The audience and the characters did not expect that. The last example is at the very end where all the characters good or bad, were “partying” with Sarah at the end of the movie. In conclusion, When authors use these 3 kinds of irony it makes the story, labyrinth more

In general, there are three types of irony that authors use as a literary device to create the element of surprise. Furthermore, there's verbal irony, when a character says something, but really means the opposite. For example, when Sarah tells Jareth, the Goblin King, "It's a piece of cake".

But it is this openness that also makes him easily manipulated. He easily accepts Titania and the faeries care, which is actually him falling into Oberon’s plan to humiliate Titania. As a result of Bottom’s arrogance, foolishness and friendliness, Bottom is an easy target for Shakespeare to turn into the joke of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through both his own

The rise of tension between characters is another characteristic of comedic plays. After Oberon sees the way that Helena has been treated by Demetrius, he orders Puck to apply the juice to the eyes of Demetrius. Puck accidentally applies the juice to Lysander’s eye, which causes him to fall in love with Helena. After the mistake had been caught, Oberon sends Puck to watch Helena and Oberon applies the juice to Demetrius’ eyes. This causes both men to fall for Helena and now the battle is for Helena and not Hermia. Helena is convinced that this is a joke or prank because neither of the two men loved her before. Now because of Puck’s mistakes the four decide to find a

Helena obsesses over Demetrius like Hermia obsesses over Lysander, except Demetrius does not love Helena. Helena chases Demetrius around endlessly hoping and crying that he would love her. Demetrius does not like this and tries to get away but Helena does not give up. “You’re risking your reputation by leaving the city and stalking someone who doesn’t love you. Standing around alone in a deserted area in the middle of the night isn’t the best way to protect your virginity,” said Demetrius “I rely on your virtue to protect me. And because I can see your shining face, it doesn’t feel like nighttime to me,” said Helena “I’ll run from you and hide in the bushes, and leave you to the mercy of wild animals,” said Demetrius (2.1.215-225.) Even if Helena could not have Demetrius she does not give up on trying, Hermia had a chance with Lysander until he was put under a spell in which he fell in love with Helena and Hermia kept trying to change him. But in the end it all works out because Helena marries Demetrius and Hermia marries Lysander.

In this play we see a love rectangle devolving where certain people are bound to love each other but don’t. In this play Demetrius is bound to marry Helena by her father's request but Helena has her heart won over Lysander whom her father does not like. Hermia who is Helena’s best friend had a burning love for Demetrius and is constantly chasing after him in hopes to get a relationship with him.

Whenever an author conveys to his reader an unspoken point, he creates a sense of collusion against all those, whether in the story or out of it, who do not get that point. Irony is always thus in part a device for excluding as well as for including, and those who are included, those who happen to have the necessary information to grasp the irony, cannot but derive at least a part of their pleasure from a sense that others are excluded” (Booth 304).