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The short stories “Young Goodman Brown”, by Nathanial Hawthorne, and “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Allen Poe, use dramatic irony more than any other type of irony. They both use symbols, imagery, and foreshadowing to connect to mostly dramatic irony that reveals to characters in the stories having evil intentions. However, these literary devices and ironic situations also lead to different items in each short story.…
When the 54th Regiment heads down South, they are put under the command of Colonel James Montgomery. In this scene, the Union army, under Montgomery’s control, pillages Darien, Georgia, stealing valuables from within the houses, and eventually burning the town.16 Creighton’s essay, while about Confederate soldiers, is similar to this scene as the corruption of morality is exemplified in the description of “independent bands of horsemen… [who] used the Confederate invasion as an opportunity to terrorize and pillage.”17 This pillaging is seen in Colonel Montgomery, who allowed his men to seize whatever they wanted and shoot at civilians’ houses, taking advantage of his authority for personal gain, similar to the independent horsemen, who took the Confederate soldiers as their authority and right to pillage the town.…
The author use irony to make the characters seem real because the characters say something and do the opposite. Real people do that to.…
Irony expresses and often underlines the contrast between two opposite concepts creating an indirect, more sophisticated method of communication. Irony is as efficient in a literary work, as the reader can perceive it. Therefore, often times the reader must carefully analyze the material, reading it repeatedly if necessary, in order to fully understand the author’s message and intent. Tobias Wolff and Alice Munro employ irony in their short stories in attempt to surprise the readers, giving them an opportunity for discovery. In Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow”, irony acts as a tragicomedy agent, but its role is mainly to reveal the true nature of the protagonists’ characters. On the other hand Munro’s use of irony gives her story, “How I Met My Husband”, a nice and funny finale, suggesting coming of age through epiphany and also the transition from phantasy to reality. Hence, irony is used differently in the two stories, such that in Wolff’s story it is a repetitive theme that keeps the reader engaged, while in Munro’s story irony provides the punch-line ending.…
¨Nothing stayed put. Nothing had a name.Nothing was as it once was.¨ In ¨The Drummer Boy of Shiloh¨ by Ray Bradbury, Joby, the drummer boy, thinks he is not an important part of the war. He wants to be a soldier and have a gun but the general changes his mind by telling him how important he is to the army. And how, if the general were to die, he would be the general. After hearing this, Joby realizes how important he is to the army. Thus, becoming a proud drummer boy. In the story, there are symbols of hope, fatherhood, and strength. A symbol is something with a hidden meaning. In Bradbury's story there are the drummer boy symbolizes hope, the general symbolizes fatherhood, and The Battle Of Shiloh symbolizes strength.…
*The historical allusion to King Richard I or better known as Lion-Hearted is seen in the text on page 17 and is stated by Hornbeck. He says, “Shield your eyes monk! You’re about to meet the mightiest of your descendants. A man who wears a cathedral for a cloak, a church spire for a hat, whose tread has the thunder of the legions of the Lion-Hearted!”…
In the Christ hymn, Paul endeavors to get his message across through a chiastic structure. By using this structure, Paul helps his recipients to be able to “feel” the decent of Christ from God to the worst death possible. The death that only belonged to non-citizen slaves. Paul then helps to to “feel” the wonderful and mighty exaltation that was given to Christ in return for the sacrifice He made.…
In Chapter 26 of Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, he explains that any great literary work is dripping with irony. At first glance, a reader may not see the it, but a closer look at a book like Kate Chopin’s The Awakening will make a reader snicker at all the irony that comes to light. In The Awakening, the relationship between protagonist, Edna, and her husband is ironic. As Edna is approaching, sunburned, he looks at his wife “as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage” (Chopin, 7). Mr. Pontellier feels as though he owns his wife, but throughout the book she ignores his opinions, has affairs, and eventually leaves him. The relationship with her husband is not the only ironic one Edna has; she has a love hate relationship with her children. Trying to appease her “mother woman” friend, Adele, Edna says, “I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself” (Chopin, 80). However, Edna’s death was very selfish because instead of saving her children, she took away their mother. Edna’s death was Chopin’s great irony in The Awakening. At the end of the book, Edna wades, into the sea, purposefully, until “it [is] too late; the shore [is] far behind her, and her strength [is] gone” (Chopin, 190). Edna’s great awakening, her realization of freedom and self, leads to her suicide. Once a reader is trained to look for irony, she will never stop seeing it, adding depth and humor to the reading…
3) Examples of irony is when the narrator says that “the minds of the king’s subjects are refined* and cultured*” by witnessing the events in the arena. This statement is ironic because a person being slaughtered is neither refining nor cultural. We are also told that the princess finds out that the lady chosen to be behind the door just happens to be a woman the princess was already jealous of. She has to choose whether or not to give her lover to a woman she hates, or to a tiger that will kill the accused person was instantly punished, and there was no escape from the judgments of the king's arena.ent of innocence or guilt up to chance is very ironic.…
The first use of irony is arguably the most humorous, which foreshadows the ridiculousness of the narrators actions throughout the story. It also defines the narrators desire for female acquaintance. He wanted a female so badly, not a divorced mother in her thirties, that he would do it seemed almost anything to get one. If it was not clear when Alena’s dog Alf, peed on him and he didn’t care, then it is even more clear when he decides to be a vegan, like her. If you had taken work off to spend a day alone on the beach and a woman’s dog walked over and peed on you, don’t you think you’d be angry at her? As a reader, we expected him to be angry, and when he wasn’t. It was clear how badly he wanted to be with her, and that he wouldn’t stop at much to achieve his goal. It didn’t take Alena long to rope the narrator into her lifestyle. In fact, it took her one night. The next morning he was up protesting with her and her friends. That is, until he got knocked out. Yet, this didn’t phase him. First he gets peed on by a dog, next he gets knocked out. for a guy who grew up eating meat, this is where one should wonder if this girls really worth it.…
In “Good County People” as well, there exists irony as all O’ Connor’s short stories contains. Joy thought herself to be “wise” for she is pursuing a Ph.D.in Philosophy. Her own theory being that, “she believes in nothing but her own belief in nothing.” However, she is fooled by a Bible salesman whom which steals her wooden leg leaving her in deep sorrow. In a sense, the wooden leg is part of Joy’s personality and with the loss of it, she feels empty. “If you want to say that the wooden leg is a symbol, you can say that. But it is a wooden leg first, and as a wooden leg it is absolutely necessary to the story. It has its place on the literal level of the story but it operates in depth as well as on the surface. It increases the story in every direction, and this is essentially the way a story escapes being short.” (1650) Irony plays a major role in this story one of them…
Situational irony plays a big role in this story’s plot. For example, the wife throws a surprise party, of sorts, for her husband, but instead of being surprised and grateful, he becomes “hotly embarrassed, and indignant at his wife for embarrassing him”. This is ironic because the reader first believes that he will be delighted, but their expectations are not met. The author uses the irony to contradict what the readers expect and create drama and suspense. The irony also serves as a lesson that actions can be misleading and to expect the unexpected.…
Prompt: In the final chapter of Anthem, Prometheus writes that he now understands “why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.” What has Prometheus come to understand about himself? Why does his society regard the “best in him” as sinful?…
“The Chaser” by John Collier is a short story provided by Professor Minor for Comp II. In search for the heart of Diana, Alan Austen reaches out for help through a special potion that will make Diana slave-like to his every movement. Alan Austen doesn’t realize how powerful $1.00 can…