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    role in society. Even in a loving relationship‚ a woman was still unequal to a man; she did not have the freedom she desired. Chopin uses irony‚ symbolism and reverse theory to express Louise Mallard’s thoughts as she grieved her husband’s death and embraced her newly found freedom. Throughout the text‚ Chopin uses two types of irony; situational and dramatic. This story is mainly based on ironic issues‚ meaning that the readers are portrayed one picture and the opposite that’s not expected is what

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    Irony is a fundamental part of Greek tragedies. This irony is created when the audience knows something that the characters in the play do not. As a result‚ the audience feels more engaged with the story‚ creating feelings of suspense and foreshadowing later events. In the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles’ use of irony does just that. He uses three different types of ironydramatic‚ verbal‚ and situational‚ in telling the story of the journey of Oedipus. Dramatic irony is a form of irony in

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    The Role of Irony in "Everyman" The desire for wealth and prosperity is what drives many in this world‚ but is that truly the best motivation? In the play Everyman‚ irony is used to promote the idea that materialistic things are pointless and the only truly valuable thing is the goodness of a person’s deeds. When the time comes to leave this life‚ nothing but good deeds will follow over into the afterlife. Wealth and friends will not be able to help a person once they die. Help will come only

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    Dramatic irony occurs throughout "Much Ado About Nothing" enabling the audience to know facts of which the characters in the play are ignorant. It is used in the play to create suspense‚ comedy and cause conflict between characters‚ thus making the play more entertaining while allowing the plot to intensify. The most notable uses of dramatic irony in the play are Hero’s "infidelity"‚ her death and the "duping" of Benedick and Beatrice. The first notable use of dramatic irony occurs during the masked

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    Spielberg brought these questions to the forefronts of the minds of millions of people. Through their combined works of 1984 and A.I. they present the question of humanity and our ability to love with the use of imagery‚ symbolism‚ and situational irony. George Orwell’s depiction of Party members as animalistic‚ subhuman creatures paints a chilling portrait of our regression back to simple primates. Throughout 1984 a society where individual thought and emotions are smothered and annihilated to

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    McCarthyism trials. Miller’s extensive [use of] irony in the crucible reveals the actual motives behind events carried out during the Salem witch trials‚ and thereby he exposes the dark truth of what happened during 1950’s McCarthyism trials on Unamerican activities. Even in the very beginning Miller wastes no time in describing the abject of his play. Some circumstances surrounding the ritual committed by the girls are near perfect representations of dramatic irony‚ that bring to light innocent people accused

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    The gender that makes a more dramatic impact has to be the male for many reasons. The males are the one that ends up starting things over a family feud that we don’t even know how it started. Like at the start of the story it starts out with them trying to fight with Montaue servants just because of a family feud. Then when Montaue and Capulet come and see what is going on and they found out that their servents fighting‚ which made them want to join but their wives to them not to because they are

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    Explore the ways writer’s present human violence and sin in “Macbeth” and the dramatic monologues of Robert Browning Weakness and fatal flaws in literature reflect human nature. This means the reader can relate to the main character. In the two dramatic monologues by Robert Browning and in the play‚ ‘Macbeth’‚ each protagonist has a fatal flaw which is made evident in the first few scenes or stanzas of the narrative. Macbeth is motivated by ambition whilst in the Robert Browning’s monologues; the

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    Blair Language Arts 20 March 2014 Rise of one person at the expense of another‚ contrasting worlds‚ disguises‚ and redemption reveal the four most common Dramatic Patterns found throughout The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. To start with‚ rise of one person at the expense of another is a pattern that ultimately describes an individual whose actions take effect upon themselves. In this case‚ an example of this

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    though they cannot be with each other and that did not stop them they still loved and cherish each other. Shakespeare in the story uses a lot of irony to show that you should do anything for true love. Shakespeare’s play is full of all three different types of irony in Romeo & Juliet: dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal. For example‚ he demonstrates dramatic irony‚ Mercutio and Benvolio thinks Romeo is still in love with Rosaline but the audience

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