Irony is inescapable. I often think it to be the one true thing in our world. After a bout with Animal Farm and the three types of irony, let us have a little echo or review of dramatic irony.
Dramatic Irony is a situation within a text, narrative, play, movie, or any type of story where the audience or reader knows something that a character (or characters) do not know. Our example from The Odyssey is from Book I, Line 176 (although the entire stanza qualifies as an example):
Telemachus asks the disguised goddess Athena: "For surely you did not come here on foot?"
The reader knows how Athena arrived at the island of Ithaca (home of Odysseus, Telemachus, etc.), Book I, Lines 93-95:
"That said, Athena fastened on fine sandals: / these - golden, everlasting - carried her / with swift winds over seas and endless lands." This is how she arrived at Ithaca. The reader knows, but Telemachus does not.
Task #2 - Please share other examples of dramatic irony in the comment section. Thanks,
Mr. Matluck
mr.matluck i have jhust finished the novel. i loved it. at first i read it slowly and found it hard to under stand. but i started reading the book faster and found that it made more sens that way.
ReplyDeletemason forth
Hello I've just finished the book and most of my essay i need your help on a final sentace or to its driv9ing me crazy this is what I have for a final paragraph I need help please write back asap thx
ReplyDeleteAll in all throught the book there is an unsung law called Xenia that is equivalent to modern day Karma where if you are not extending you upmost amont of respect you will have bad things happen to you and if you are bad enough you could die by the hands of the gods. The suitors are a great ,offtenly expained, example of Xenia. Someone with liittle to no respect. Nestor the horseman though hardly talked about was in my opinion the best exasmple of good Xenia.