Examples Of Irony In King Lear

should live in harmony and laugh together. In the context of the play, the quote is actually quite ominous and foreboding. Aside from the tattoo being a false version of the actual line, which reads “we’ll live… and laugh at gilded butterflies,” the line is understood to portray the exiled King Lear’s attempt to console his daughter as they are escorted to prison, and the absence of faith in his own words. Of course, there is always the possibility that Megan Fox actually studied the tragedy of King Lear and chose the particular quote very carefully to symbolize and remember someone she lost who was very dear to her, with the hopes that their soul is in Heaven laughing with those that they loved in life. However, in an interview, Fox said that her interpretation of her tattoo was “to not get too caught up in Hollywood because people will end up laughing at you.”
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, released in 1975, is an example of one such popular spoof. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, title character Hamlet says to Ophelia “get thee to a nunnery.” In the original work, “nunnery” is used as Elizabethan slang for a brothel, thus insinuating that Ophelia was unvirtuous or imploring her to be so. In the British comedy, the line is changed to “bring me a shrubbery.” Instead of commenting on a woman’s virtues, Graham Chapman, who delivered the line in the movie, is describing a plan to make a path with a “two layer