Fahrenheit 451 Verbal Irony Analysis

Ray Bradbury strengthens the use of verbal, dramatic, and situational irony through Montag and Mildred to emphasize his points in the story about Mildred’s lack of acknowledgement for her real family, her forgetting about overdosing and Montag being a firemen who starts fires. Bradbury creates verbal irony to explain Mildred’s neglect for her real family, Montag. We see this happening when he asks her to turn off the parlor and she responds, “That’s my family” (Bradbury 46). This passage proves that Mildred is an example of verbal irony due to her calling the walls with TV’s her family and caring more for them than Montag. Moreover Bradbury generates dramatic irony to emphasize Mildred overdosing on her medicine and then forgetting about it