Cook, A. L. (2007). Narratives of Irony: Alienation, Representation, and Ethics in Carlyle, Eliot, and Pater. A Dissertation at University of Pittsburgh. [Online]. Retrieved at: www.d-scholarship.pitt.edu [August 15th 2011].…
Squealer gives ennobling speeches on the glory of sacrifice, but the other animals acquire their real inspiration from the example of Boxer, who works harder than ever.…
Great writing can move readers to tears and the use of sympathy and sentiment helps cause this response. Sympathy and sentiment is used through narrative language to appeal to emotions. Irony is one way to draw out sympathy and sentiment by collapsing feelings into an intellectual, narrative, and linguistic control. Irony can be angry self-reflexive and is the end point for sympathy and sentiment in the 20th and 21st centuries as seen in The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow. The angry self-reflexive irony can be observed by the many powerful “voices” and narrative intensities in The Book of Daniel. The story follows Daniel Isaacson and the revisiting, in flashbacks, of major events that occurred in his life between a first-person and a third-person…
The author use irony to make the characters seem real because the characters say something and do the opposite. Real people do that to.…
Overall Boxer had quite a good life, but it was ruined at the end for he is taken away to be made into glue, such a sad ending for such a grand horse.…
Thesis: Irony is heavily used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through religion, racism, and the fact that Jim is a free man throughout the majority of the novel.…
All in all the irony shown through out the novel has brought a plethora of tones in the course of the book. It has shown us a playful, suspenseful, depressing, and saddening tone. All of those tones have contribute to the mainstoryline and conflict on the book. And the irony and tones it provides has a signified impact .…
Two types of irony are presented in the short story The Story of an Hour, situational and dramatic irony. Situational irony is irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. Dramatic irony is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play or story. Situational irony is expressed through Mrs. Mallard’s actions to her husband’s death in the train accident. When she first heard the news of her husband’s death Mrs. Mallard “wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment”(188). It appeared to everyone that she was very sad and upset so she went upstairs to her bedroom; although, she was flowing with excitement. It is natural for a person to be very upset after losing a loved one, so they all understood what was happening.…
Boxer is a helpful animal. He is always ready to offer help to any of the animals. When the boulder began to slip and the animals began to cry out in despair at finding themselves dragged down the hill, it was always Boxer who…
15. What is written on the side of the van that takes Boxer away? -- Horse Slaughterer…
William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, used irony to tell his story of a group of young British boys stranded on a deserted island. The readers can clearly spot the irony in the dialogue and Ralph, one of the main character, is also aware of the irony in his situation. The irony in the novel forces the readers to step aside and think about the hidden meanings the author is trying to express.…
6. Dramatic irony examples in act 4: scene 1, lines 24-28; Paris asks Juliet to confess to friar Laurence that she loves him, and Juliet carefully avoids denying it. We know that Juliet loves Romeo, not Paris. Scene 1 line 6 ; Paris thinks that Juliet grieves for tybalt, we know that Juliet cries for Romeo. Scene 2, lines 17-22 and scene 3, lines 1-13. The irony builds tension because readers sense that the unfolding tragedy is unavoidable.…
A good example of dramatic irony in the play is when Eddie and Mickey decide that as they are such good friends they will become blood brothers. "Hey, we were born on the same day. That means we can be blood brothers." The audience knows that they were actually…
Ve rbal irony also emphasizes the pain and suffering on the slaves behalf. By showing a contrast in the meaning of the words used and what they communicate, such as in…
The irony within situations and statements dominates a story's plot, contributing to both the rising and the falling action, which William Golding accentuates in Lord of the Flies. When a group of young boys crash their plane on an island, they perceive the situation as an adventure, but they soon realize the danger in the unpropitious circumstances at hand. Through the situational and verbal irony that arises, Golding delineates how people can hypocritically adapt to having characteristics they do not condone in others and how innocence shields children from seeing flaws in adults.…