Situational Irony In The Video 'Hall Monitor'

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.” This quote by Robert A. Heinlein matches the Crucible perfectly because by the end of the story, many people will have died because of ironic circumstances. In regards to this, there are three types of irony that appear in the Crucible; they are situational, dramatic, and verbal.

Irony is a technique that uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. For example, dramatic irony is a type of irony which is shown in the first Shrek movie. Fiona loves Shrek but only Donkey and the audience know. In this situation, dramatic irony is being created because the character Shrek does not know that Fiona loves him but the audience does. The short stories “The Lottery” the reader may find both situational and dramatic irony that both create the ironic ending.

Situational irony occurs when there is a situation which appears to have an assumed conclusion, but then something ironic happens and the end result is different than what was expected. Harrison, the unique son of George and Hazel, is a tall, strong man who is attempting to overthrow the government. He manages to break out of jail and takes control of the television station, declaring himself the Emperor. Just as it appears that he is going to succeed in his takeover, the Handicapper General came into the studio. ”She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.” This is not the expected outcome and creates irony in this situation.

Situational irony is when the opposite of what is expected to happen happens. This type of irony can be found in many different works of literature, take The Interlopers and The Machine That Won the War for example. The Interlopers and The Machine that Won the War differ in many ways, like in characters and setting, but use situational irony in a similar way.

AEC Paragraph: Situational Irony in The House on Mango Street In “The House On Mango Street”, Cisneros uses (situational) irony to show and express the environment Esperanza lives in and the people she lives around. A major irony of the story is that Esperanza’s family had decided to move into a house of their own because they wanted to feel a sense of safety and security. Mango Street is anything but safe and secure and the house is nothing the family dreamed of having. Esperanza explains, “It’s not the house we’d thought we’d get” (3).

Situational irony occurs when an event is not what is expected by the reader or the audience. For example, “ which is a lot, because they are REAL FANS, by which I mean drunk”(Barry 3). This is an example of situational irony because you are not expecting the “real fans” to be druk. The reader may think that they actually are real fans or they are just rude people, not drunk. When Barry is talking about the “real fans” that are standing up at a sporting events when it is unnecessary, he is making fun of the people that are unexpectedly drunk and probably will not remember that happened the day after the game. Another example of situational irony would be “But when they’re dealing with somebody they consider to be not useful, or unimportant, especially if that person pretty much has to take the abuse-an underlining, a salesclerk,a waiter,a flight attendant- these people feel free to be rude. These people are what we call ‘jerks’”(Barry 2). When Barry started to talk about all these rude people the reader may think that there is an actual specific name for these types of people, nothing as simple as “jerks”. Situational irony intended response is mostly the same as sarcasm intended response. Only that situational irony does not make you think as

“The Eye of the Beholder” uses situational irony and the ending was opposite of what you expected. It builds up until her face bandage is taken off in the end and she has what we would describe as “a normal” face. Throughout the video, you hear how her face has always been different and how she has gone through many treatments to get her face somewhat like other’s faces, but all failed and her face stayed the same, making you think that her face must be really awful. The tension builds even more when he says that this would be the last chance for her ugly face to be fixed and that if this failed she would have to live in a community with her “deformity”. Finally, in the end, when the doctors take off her bandages it shows that she had what

One example I’m going to show you is about dramatic irony is Madame Schafer she see’s fire when they are on the train to Auschwitz from a very long distance and keeps on screaming that they are going to be burned alive so the people on the train had to quiet her down by hitting her in the head over and over till she had stopped yelling and crying and she was quiet again. Every

An example of the use of dramatic irony is when Cady dumbs herself down for her crush, Aaron. This shows how she changes who she really is just to fit in. In the movie, Cady, who is by far the smartest girl in her math class, fails her test purposely so her crush Aaron Samuels will tutor her. By doing so, she hopes that he will end up liking her. The teacher eventually catches on and explains to Cady that it isn’t a good idea. This is dramatic irony because the audience knows that Cady is faking being dumb but the characters do not know it except for her math teacher. Another example of dramatic irony is when Cady is sabotaging Regina. Regina wanted to lose three pounds for the dance, so Cady told her that she had these weight loss bars from Africa, but in reality they were bars from Africa that made kids gain weight. This shows that Cady is turning into someone who she is not, just to hurt someone else. These two pieces of evidence show that a lot of the time, people fake who they really

The next type of noticeable irony in The Crucible is situational irony. This irony is defined as is a difference between what is expected to happen in a story versus what actually happens. One example of situational irony occurred for the accused: the punishment of the "witches". Will they die because they honestly claim they aren't witches or will they live a life of lying about their true witch identity? Goody Proctor was a genuine and honest person, and yet, she died with the truth that she was innocent of witchcraft. Which is truly more important: your desires or common morals? Another example of situational irony takes place in the courts of Act III, the sin of wrong-doing buried in the heart of John Proctor, when he finally admits he

Appearances can be deceiving. The Crucible exemplifies this statement at the crux of a tangled web of lies. Each and every character has a personal agenda and the constant betrayal casts a shadow of darkness over the town of Salem. This very darkness makes the people lose their reason and turn against each other. Amidst a series of persecutions, Miller has used situational, dramatic, and verbal irony to create tension and make the reader question the transparency of every motive.

Situational irony is when the opposite of what is expected happens. An example of situational irony in the episode is when peter brings home boxes filled with fake lottery tickets that he purchased by taking a second mortgage out on the house. After searching through enormous piles of fake tickets peter explains to the family they were all fake and it was a test. Brian, the dog, criticizes the lottery saying, “Peter this is idiotic. Don’t you know the odds of winning are like a hundred million to one. The lottery is just a tax on stupid people” (MacFarlane, Seth). Peter then brings out a final box and the first ticket Brian picks up is the winning ticket. This is situational irony because after Brian explains that chances of winning the lottery are very slim and only stupid people succumb to the lottos promises of fortune, he finds the winning ticket. The directors reason for including this segment is to hint at the lottery being a scam and having unfair

In the story “Invitation to Murder” by Josh Pachter, situational irony is presented in a number of examples. Situational irony is when what is expected in the plot, does not occur. Mrs. Eleanor Abbott invited twelve of the nation’s most accomplished detectives to witness a murder. The detectives were invited to her home in New York City. When the men entered the room, a table mounted in the center of the room had multiple weapons lying on it. The weapons included an amber bottle with a skull and crossbones, a knife, a gun, and a wire. The men waited until the party commenced.

The power of strong female relationships allow love in a world filled with male violence, Alice Walker, in The Color Purple, implies symbolism, dramatic irony, and connotation to show how love between females help a young girl get through tough patches of her life. The entire story is told by a young girl who has faced tremendous horrors throughout her life but despite all the odds she still managed to keep her hope. Celie lives her days writing letters to god since no one else can help her get through this although she has no mother, she does have a sister but is too young to understand what Celie goes through a daily basis. No one has helped her bear this moment only god. God is the only one she’s vented her tragic moments to. Just before Celie slowly matures into a woman with enormous confidence her sister, Nettie, is taken away and she is forced to marry a cruel man who isn’t in love with Celie but is with Nettie. As she still lives her abusive life with her husband new people are introduced in the story. A person in particular is Shug. Shug is Celie's husband's mistress who she is going to have nurse. As Shug grows

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.