Sophocles Use Of Dramatic Irony In Antigone

Here, too, though, a caution is in order. We will miss much if we insist on seeing only this general fact. The particular "flavor" and thematic resonance of individual instances of dramatic irony in a given tragedy will depend on the particular circumstances of that individual work. The questions at the end of this memo are designed to prompt us to take stock of the what may be special about what Sophocles wants to use dramatic irony to emphasize in this particular work. We should remain open to the possibility that even the same playwright, in another work (for example, Sophocles in his Antigonê), might undertake to use the same general effect to quite different thematic