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    Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Paradox and Irony

    In 5 pages this paper examines the uses of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony as it emphasizes the plot's paradox within the ...

    Othello by William Shakespeare and the Value of Irony

    In 5 pages this paper analyzes the significance of dramatic irony in this Shakespearean tragedy in terms of character and plot dev...

    Room With a View by E.M. Forster

    In twenty pages this paper considers the literary devices including symbolism, tone, irony, and metaphor that the author employs i...

    Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

    various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

    George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man and R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End

    In five pages these plays are compared and analyzed in a consideration of irony and expectation as well as appearance versus reali...

    'A Father' by Bharati Mukherjee and Irony

    In five pages this paper examines the importance of irony to Mukherjee's story with other thematic components considered as well. ...

    Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease, Moliere's Tartuffe, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Irony

    daughters. This structurally ironic situation creates the entire basis for the plot of King Lear, as it quickly becomes apparent...

    Robert Frost's Irony and Humor

    In 5 pages this paper discusses how Frost humorously employs irony in his poems 'The Secret Sits,' 'A Cloud Shadow,' 'Mending Wall...

    'Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe and Irony

    In 3 pages the author's employment of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in this short story is analyzed. There are 2 source...

    Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Dramatic Irony

    In five pages the representation of dramatic irony in these plays are compared in terms of their similarities. There are no other...

    Irony in the Greek Tragedy Oedipus the King

    In four pages this paper discusses the dominance of the all powerful Greek mythological gods within the context of this tragedy by...

    Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Dramatic Irony

    In five pages Twain's use of dramatic irony in Chapter XXXI is examined in terms of Huck's decision regarding Jim's mistake and it...

    Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi and Irony

    In five pages the basic ironic construction of this opera by Verdi is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

    Irony in 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

    In five pages this paper discusses the author's use of irony in the essay 'A Modest Proposal.' One source is cited in the bibliog...

    Journey's End A View of the Conflicts of War by R.C. Sherriff and Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

    In five pages these works are compared in a consideration of peace and issues of heroism along with war irony and symbolism as ref...