DramaticIrony

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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet // Shakespeare uses dramatic irony, when the readers know something the characters do not. At the beginning when the chorus are telling the story we know what will happen at the end of the plot. The readers know what will happen at the end but the characters dont. When Juliet is crying because Romeo is banish, Lady Capulet and Capulet think she is crying because Tybalt was killed and has not been avenged yet. Another example of dramatic irony is when Capulet annouces that Juliet shall marry Paris this is an example of dramitic irony, because the readers/listeners know that Juliet is already married to Romeo. This Dramatic Irony spurs another example of dramatic irony. Which is when Friar Lawrence says that Juliet is in a better place when she is "dead". All of the readers/listeners know that she has only taken a potion but all of the characters, except the Friar, think she is dead. Another example of Dramatic Irony is when romeo thinks Juliet dead but we know she is just asleep in (V.i.1-10). Friar Lawrence sends a letter to Romeo, but the Franciscan Friar John is quarantined in a plague infested house. So the readers and the Friar know that she is not dead but everyone else think that she is dead. When Romeo enters the tomb Paris thinks he has come to desicrate Juliets tomb but the readers know that he has come to kill him self and lie forever with Juliet. Paris tries to kill Romeo for this but he gets killed in the process. The dramatic irony in //The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet// lightens the mood in the play. picture provided by : [| http://www.manteno5.org/webquest/high/LanguageArts/RomeoandJuliet/image001.jpg] http://www.deathreference.com/images/medd_02_img0128.jpg