“Stay gentle Helena. Hear my excuse, my love, my life my soul, fair Helena!”, irony at its finest. Midsummer Night’s Dream may be 400 years old . . . it still has many scenes of irony in it. It has all three types of irony. Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic irony appear a number of times in the play. What do these types of irony mean though . . . Verbal irony is when a character says something they don’t actually mean. Situational irony is when you think something is going to happen and the opposite happens. Finally, Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters don’t. These are what they mean . . . here’s where the play used them.
A use of verbal irony in the play is when Lysander is put under the flower’s spell to fall in love with Helena. He really loves Hermia but the flower is making him say the opposite of what he means. Another use is when Titania is under the flower’s spell to make her fall in love with an ass . . . I mean Bottom. She doesn’t really love Bottom but the flower is making her say how much she loves him. These are how Verbal irony is used in the play. …show more content…
. . and the flower goes in Lysander’s eyes. The audience thought that the flower would go in Demetrius’s eyes but it goes in Lysander’s. Another example is when Puck does get the flower in Demetrius’s eyes and it only makes things worse, because now we have to guys willing to kill each other to get Helena. This is how Situational Irony is used in the
A use of verbal irony in the play is when Lysander is put under the flower’s spell to fall in love with Helena. He really loves Hermia but the flower is making him say the opposite of what he means. Another use is when Titania is under the flower’s spell to make her fall in love with an ass . . . I mean Bottom. She doesn’t really love Bottom but the flower is making her say how much she loves him. These are how Verbal irony is used in the play. …show more content…
. . and the flower goes in Lysander’s eyes. The audience thought that the flower would go in Demetrius’s eyes but it goes in Lysander’s. Another example is when Puck does get the flower in Demetrius’s eyes and it only makes things worse, because now we have to guys willing to kill each other to get Helena. This is how Situational Irony is used in the