In today’s society, fairytales are most commonly reserved for children. Our fascination for these incredible tales slowly dies out as we mature, and we replace our interests accordingly. This progression is clearly reflected in the films we choose to go out and see. Today’s adult moviegoers will almost always choose drama, comedy, and action genres over fantasy. Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro 2006) successfully brings fairytales back into the realm of adult cinema by combining horror and fantasy with the factual drama of the Spanish Civil War. This film is a rare treat, for it seamlessly blends historical reality with the supernatural. The combination of the two is so fluid that it is actually quite difficult to assign it to any sort of a genre. In today’s world, your average movie-going experience can be both bland and predictable, but I can assure you that this film is neither.…
One of the elements that contribute to Tim Burton’s creative style is irony. Irony is the…
Irony, in literature can be anything from sarcasm to a shocking plot twist that can be inconvenient to the characters toward the end. A type of irony is situational which is where something very unexpected shows up at the last minute making the outcome of the story completely different then you expected. Such as the one in Lord of the Flies that effects one special character named Simon, and really almost all the characters.…
Numerous artists, such as William Shakespeare and Richard Connell, used irony to entertain and engage their audiences. In the well-renown Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare used irony and foreshadow to strategize the story line of the tragedy. Various successful authors and directors use irony to make their story-line more appealing to their audience. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, Richard Connell uses the three types of irony: dramatic, verbal and situational to the engage readers and keep the theme and story-line stimulated.…
Secondly, situational irony is a discrepancy, or difference between what's expected and what really happens. One such example of this type of irony occurs for the accused; The punishment of "witches". Do they die because they truthfully say they aren't witches or live with the lie that they are? Goody Proctor was a genuine person, and yet died with the truth that she was innocent of witchcraft. What is more important, morals, or your own life? You're the judge of the case.…
Disclaimer: I don't own Labyrinth Chapter One: Drunken Wishes "G-guys, tanks for tofight," Sarah slurred as she stumbled along hanging onto to her friends for support. " Well, it's not every day a pretty girl like you turns 21," Dale joked, making sure to keep Sarah from falling, "plus we had to make sure you had a proper taste of alcohol. " Dale smiled and tighten his muscular arm around Sarah's waist.…
Situational irony is a situation in the story that goes opposite to what was suppose to happen, In other words a sharp turn in the other direction. A situation that I thought was a situational irony in the movie was when the lion attacked the man to protect Walter and it died instead of the man.…
Dramatic irony- the reader knows something the character doesn’t know Unexpected irony- something happens differently than what is expected Verbal irony- the character says the opposite of what he means…
Some of the times verbal irony is used to help to enforce the other uses of irony. For instance, as Fortunato is finding out his fate and trying to convince himself that it is a joke, he says that the Lady Fortunato will be waiting for him at the Palazzo, and "Let us be gone" and Montresor's response is "Yes." "Let us be gone." They both say the same thing, but to each of them it has drastically different meanings. Fortunato wants to go home, go to his wife. Montresor wants him to simply be gone, be gone from his life, and be gone from the world. It is an ironic play on words. However this verbal irony also can be taken as the dramatic irony as well, because the character Fortunato is finally beginning to see what the audience has known all along, but still doesn’t quite pick up on the verbal hints of…
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan is another sequel to the Percy Jackson series that involves Greek Mythology. The purpose is to explain my three favorite scenes and why I enjoyed it. The story begins when Percy, the protagonist, that has to go on another adventure with the help of his friends through the treacherous Labyrinth, and find the maker, Daelalus, to not assist Luke, the antagonist of this book. This novel is part of the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. The genre of this book is fiction but also a fantastic book to read.…
There are three types of irony. Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. The two types of irony used in Langston Hughes’ first person narrative “Salvation” is verbal and situational irony. Verbal irony is the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says. Situational irony occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant to happen, happens. Theses two types irony are introduced by Hughes’ Auntie Reed who begins to take Hughes to church for several weeks, and then talks about taking Hughes to the children revival. This sets up the beginning of Hughes traumatic experience with religion.…
Dramatic irony- words and actions of characters have a different meaning for the reader than the character…
There are many types of irony used in Macbeth.. Without the irony, the tragedy would not be quite so tragic. Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony was used in the story of Macbeth.…
“Buy Local, shrink the distance food travels, save the planet.” Locavore is a diet a person takes up to eat only local food. It consists of a group of people that insist to help the economy and reduce the size of carbon footprint by eating local food within a 100 mile radius. Alex Hallat the creator of “Artic Circle” comic strip portrays the idea of locavore to inform and entertain people.…
Dramatic irony is an element used in a tragedy. This element creates situations where the audience knows the characters thoughts, personality, or events that have occurred to a character before another character does. The author uses this element to instil fear, frustration, or suspense to the reader. An example of dramatic irony used in the Shakespearean tragedy ‘Othello’ in Act 3, scene III is in lines 170-175 in which Iago says, “ Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the…