Use Of Dramatic Irony In Happy Endings By Margaret Atwood

Dramatic irony is an elaborate gadget that is generally utilized by storytellers, in plays, in the theater, and in movies. This produces tension between what characters say and do, and what the audience knows to be true. The use of dramatic irony was used in two dramatic productions, both the short story Happy Endings written by Margaret Atwood and the movie Chinatown directed by Roman Polanski. In the short story Happy Endings the author introduces her literature into six stories labeled from A-F, which in reality makes up just one. Whereas in the film Chinatown, the director wanted the audience to realize how many themes can come together and show the big picture. Roman tries to concur with the idea that the world is corrupted and we are too ignorant to do anything about it. In Happy Endings, Margaret combines six stories into one.This gives the reader the option to choose …show more content…
She begins by introducing the main characters, both John and Mary in version A. In version A, their lives are going great which is where the title from the story was perhaps given. Even though in this version it isn’t quite clear to us because there are undeveloped characters remaining that we know nothing about. Version B displays John, as being an individual who is being selfish and only using Mary for her body. He’s ungrateful to realize the effort she puts to work things out between the two of them. The verbalization then used by Atwood shows that Mary may have been delusional. In addition, she writes this version in second person in order for the reader to be more hooked and reveal the characters through a different way. In Version C, John is having an affair with Mary meanwhile being married to Madge who he has a family