The effects of dramatic irony can be seen in any story. Watching a character operate in circumstances where they don’t know the entire truth can be dramatic or suspenseful. But it can also be funny.

(Situational Irony) as we had left him – dead in Circe’ hall (Line 578 – 580), This is Situational Irony because the readers didn’t know that one of Odysseus’ men died in Circe’ hall.

Dramatic irony is a form of irony that is expressed through a work’s structure: an audience’s awareness of the situation in which a work’s characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters’, and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different—often contradictory—meaning for the …

Situational irony occurs when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you’d expect the result to be. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows a key piece of information that a character in a play, movie or novel does not.

List the examples of dramatic irony in Act 2, scene 2. Juliet addresses “Romeo, Romeo…” since the audience knows he’s nearby. Another example is the fact that we know the two will fall in love but that this also leads to their death.

The audience sees Prospero watching and Ariel overseeing so they know that the whole thing is orchestrated. Dramatic Irony 6: The audience, unlike Ferdinand and Miranda, knows what has upset Prospero. They have been anticipating the assassination plot. The youths are kept in blissful ignorance.

Although many characters believe other characters have perished in the tempest, the audience knows that this is not the case. This form of dramatic irony indicates to the audience that the play’s events likely lead toward a peaceful resolution rather than toward tragedy.

Language

• Soliloquy. A soliloquy is where a character, onstage and alone, reveals their thoughts to the audience.
• Aside.
• Imagery.
• Personification.
• Hyphen.
• Antithesis.
• Repetition.
• Verse and Prose Changes.

When the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays was published in 1623, The Tempest appeared under the genre category “comedy.” Like all of Shakespeare’s other comedies, the play resolves happily, with the promise of a wedding between Miranda and Ferdinand.

“At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda’s true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone – except Caliban – is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas.

The Tempest is unlike any other play in Shakespeare’s body of work. It takes place all in one day; it is filled with magic and spirits; it revisits many themes Shakespeare has tackled before; and, it focuses on Prospero, a main character who is totally in control of his own story.

Othello is a tragedy because it tells the story of a noble, principled hero who makes a tragic error of judgment, leading to a devastating climax in which most of the characters end up either dead or seriously wounded.

William Shakespeare’s play Othello, the Moor of Venice concerns the downfall of Othello who was a Moorish General and can be considered a tragedy. The main character who is the hero in the drama faces trouble at the end of the play when he kills his wife suspecting her of being unfaithful.

Othello. Othello is a play that is a mainstream Shakespearean tragedy and therefore is an obvious text for Paper 1. Significantly Othello’s knowledge comes too late, a key aspect of tragedy. Othello is also a domestic tragedy: the tragedy of marriage.

What are some things Othello considers in his soliloquy before he kills Desdemona? He hopes for her to repent her sin (the alleged affair with Cassio). He hopes if she does this, her soul can go to heaven instead of hell. “I will not kill thy unprepared spirit.”

Othello’s mention of looking at Iago’s feet suggests that he’s looking for cloven, or hooves, as many believe that the devil has cloven feet. Further, he asks the officials in Cyprus to ask Iago, whom he refers to as “that demi-devil,” why he has ruined Othello’s life.

Othello is beginning to realize that Desdemona did not have an affair with Cassio and that Iago has been lying the entire time. Othello attacks Iago because he finally realizes that he was tricked. Desdemona was always faithful to him and she did not need to be murdered.

Desdemona was an innocent character and did not deserve her fate. Iago and Othello are both to blame for her death. Iago is responsible for Desdemona’s murder because he manipulated Othello; however, Othello is more accountable for the crime because he was too trusting of Iago.

Iago wants Desdemona dead because getting rid of her will help him to destroy her husband, Othello. Desdemona is a threat to Iago because she doesn’t trust him. So, long as she’s around, she can act as what Iago regards as a dangerous influence on her husband, and Iago can’t stomach such a prospect.