Irony in "Brave New World"

Many authors use irony as a way of questioning the reader or emphasizing a central idea. A literary device, such as irony, can only be made simple with the help of examples. Irony can help a reader to better understand certain parts of a novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald helps the reader to recognize and understand his use of irony by giving key examples throughout The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s lush parties, Myrtle’s death, Gatsby’s death, and the title of the novel to demonstrate how irony plays a key role in the development of the plot.

Irony and foreshadowing are literary devices used in literature. Foreshadowing is when an element in the story is used to hint an event that will occur further along in the story. There are many different types of Irony. One of these is dramatic irony, which refers to when a character thinks something is true yet the audience know the actual truth of the situation. Another type of irony is

Irony is a useful device for giving stories many unexpected twists and turns. In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," irony is used as an effective literary device. Situational irony is used to show the reader that what is expected to happen sometimes doesn't. Dramatic irony is used to clue the reader in on something that is happening that the characters in the story do not know about. Irony is used throughout Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" through the use of situational irony and the use of dramatic irony.

An example of dramatic irony is when Fortunato tells Montresor not to worry about his health and that “the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I will not die of a cough” (POE 238) Montresor then replies, “True–true.” When the reader reads this, they see that Fortunato is clueless of Montresor’s true plan is and while he tells Fortunato he will be all right. That he will not die, he is planning to kill him. This is dramatic because we as the reader feel a sense of sorrow because we know the truth about what will

A very dull and boring story can be made into a great story simply by adding in something that is unexpected to happen. When the unexpected is used in literature it is known as irony. An author uses irony to shock the reader by

A sense of dramatic irony is thought to be used throughout the reading. However, the book often takes a turn so that the reader’s previous thoughts on the plot are changed.

Once Lenina learns that they share the same feelings towards each other, she takes it as a physical desire rather than an emotional desire, which John ends up loathing.

Irony is defined as “a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character:”(“Irony” Entry 3. Oxford Dictionary. November 5th, 2015, Web.) In literature, irony can be used to foreshadow situations about to occur. Irony is a literary technique that can be expressed in 3 different ways. There is Dramatic irony, Situational Irony, and Verbal Irony. Situational irony is defined as, “irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.” ("situational-irony."(Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 05 Nov.

In both of these works, Community and Brave New World, the director and author both use satire and irony to criticize how easy it is to become a tool in the regime. When readers were introduced to John, it was apparent that he would be an important part of the story, he showed the society what real happiness looked and felt like. John was upset with himself and showed true emotions, “ which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet.”Kill it, kill it, kill it…" The Savage went on shouting.” In this quote, Huxley uses irony and

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley constructs satire in order to warn the reader of utopian or a perfect world society who are controlled by government, technology, and conditioning. First, in Brave New World each caste is confined to what the government wishes them to think or do. Gaydosik displayed information about how the government set up the system for society, "divided by brainpower into five classes, these scientifically create humans arrive in adulthood already trained to do their assigned tasks" (Gaydosik). Each caste gets the job, according to their level where they have no freedom to choose what job to do, which class they belong to. Secondly, the world state uses conditioning as a way to pressure children to perform a certain

Brave New World is a futuristic Sci-Fi novel based on genetically bred humans. Instead of a mother and father, people are created in assembly lines and conditioned from the day they are created for their life’s work. This conditioning controls their entire life, from opinions to emotions. Choices in controlling one’s own life are also limited due to the censorship in the novel.

Lenina's final defining factor that separates her from the men in the novel, namely John, is her ability to love. It appears to be a mutual love between Lenina and John, but it is exposed later that John's love for her is only because of his love for his mother. Lenina on the other hand immediately thinks that John is "such a nice-looking boy"� with a "really beautiful body"� (117). This is the beginning of her adoration of John. She wonders what it would be "like to make love to a Savage"� (166) which makes her curiosity and interest in John obvious. Finally to her friend Fanny she admits that she "likes him"� (166). After many encounters, Lenina gets the courage, with the help of soma, to face John and attempt to seduce him. She goes to his room in a "white acetate satin sailor suit"� (189) which is like the pearl imagery when Lenina is first introduced invokes a sense of innocence in her love for John. John cannot be with her due to his connection between her

People watch other individuals experience irony all the time. When something is ironic it means that the thing that was to happen, did not happen the way it was thought to happen. Sometimes irony happens to those who least expect it or irony happens to everyone. There have been songs, television ads, and stories written about irony or that have included ironic events or details. One piece of literature that contains a lot of irony is Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”. Crane uses irony in many different ways in the story to tell of four individuals who survive their ship being wrecked and everyone else aboard has drown.

This novel takes place in the year 632 A.F. The government controls the population of Utopia, there are only test tube births and an artificial process for multiplying the embryos. Marriage is forbidden. There are ten World Controllers; these people control the government and all of their plans. In the very beginning there are students being given a guided party line tour through the London Hatcheries. Two employees that work there are Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne, they have been dating each other too much and are discouraged by the state. So Lenina’s best friend, Fanny, picks on her because of this. Lenina then meets Bernard Marx, and grows to like him so much that she agrees to go on a vacation with him to a New Mexican

first world war, to brainwash the people into supporting the government and supporting the war