On Dramatic Irony --from TypesofIrony.com
This form of irony is considered by many writers as a potent tool for exciting and sustaining the interest of readers and audiences. The irony creates a big contrast between the immediate situation of the character and the episodes that will follow, and therefore, generates curiosity.
This form of irony is considered by many writers as a potent tool for exciting and sustaining the interest of readers and audiences. The irony creates a big contrast between the immediate situation of the character and the episodes that will follow, and therefore, generates curiosity.
By allowing the reader and audience to know more things ahead of the characters, the irony puts the reader and audience [in a position] above the characters and encourages them to hope, to fear, and anticipate the moment when the character finds out the truth behind the situations and events of the story.
Dramatic irony is also used more often in the tragedies. In such stories, the readers and audiences are pushed to sympathize with the characters all the way to the tragic end. The irony is used to emphasize the fatality of limited understanding even on innocent and honest people, and to demonstrate the painful repercussions of misunderstandings. The characters in the story or play remain ignorant about the bad fate while the reader or audience knows about the heartbreaking end.
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