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Use Of Dramatic Irony In Romeo And Juliet

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William shakespeare uses dramatic irony in the play Romeo and Juliet to enhance and develop the plot of scene 3. The dramatic irony that shakespeare uses is when Juliet is crying over the banishment of Romeo when people around her thinks it’s over Tybalt’s death. Shakespeare uses this in enhancing the fact that no one around her likes Romeo. “Evermore weeping for your cousin's death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?” -Lady Capulet, her mother, not knowing that in fact Juliet has married the person that killed her brother-in-law’s son and is more sad about her husband leaving her than a family member passing ”Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?” -Juliet. With that said, leading into the next use of dramatic irony.

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