There are a few characteristics that Realism authors share, and that is the ability to write realistic literature. A few of these books being The Yellow Wallpaper, To Build a Fire and the Slave Narratives by Frederick Douglass. In these three books irony was the common theme.
In To Build a Fire the man sets out having credence in his ability to survive. Little did he know how difficult it would be to complete this unprecedented journey, but the dog, upon intuition knew that the man would not survive. The irony shows up when the man is building a fire under a tree and it is taken out by the very snow he was trying to escape from. “There was the fire, snapping and crackling and promising life with every dancing flame… Where it had burned was a mantle of fresh and disordered snow.”(553) This show that the man was happy with the fire but he didn’t know that the fire would melt the snow on the branch and make it fall and take the fire out. …show more content…
The anonymous woman in the book is put in “rest” by her own husband who is a “physician”. He tells her she is mad and puts her in an isolated room. The room she was held in made her even more mad and she relegated into a state of depression. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? . . . So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again. Personally, I disagree with their ideas.” During her time in the room she became very fond of the wallpaper which was yellow, hence the name of the book. There is also more irony in the third and last piece of
In To Build a Fire the man sets out having credence in his ability to survive. Little did he know how difficult it would be to complete this unprecedented journey, but the dog, upon intuition knew that the man would not survive. The irony shows up when the man is building a fire under a tree and it is taken out by the very snow he was trying to escape from. “There was the fire, snapping and crackling and promising life with every dancing flame… Where it had burned was a mantle of fresh and disordered snow.”(553) This show that the man was happy with the fire but he didn’t know that the fire would melt the snow on the branch and make it fall and take the fire out. …show more content…
The anonymous woman in the book is put in “rest” by her own husband who is a “physician”. He tells her she is mad and puts her in an isolated room. The room she was held in made her even more mad and she relegated into a state of depression. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? . . . So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again. Personally, I disagree with their ideas.” During her time in the room she became very fond of the wallpaper which was yellow, hence the name of the book. There is also more irony in the third and last piece of