How Does Shakespeare Use Dramatic Irony In Romeo And Juliet

“A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves”(banksy)In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet he uses dramatic irony to toy with the audiences emotions or to make them cringe only to wonder why a character reacted to something the way they did. Dramatic irony is a literary technique, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. --- In the beginning of the play the narrator says, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, whose misadventured piteous overthrows both with their death bury their parents strife…”(I.i.5-8). In this quote it is telling the audience that Romeo and