The tone that authors use in their work is crucial when allowing the audience to capture the style they are writing in so that the story is enhanced and sharpened. An interesting literary device that is constantly used is irony, which is used constantly in multiple literary works to intensify the characters, theme, and plot. There are different types of irony that authors use to have an impact on the audience. According to Approaching Literature, “Style is particularly important for the more complex tone of irony: expression in which the writer or speaker creates a discrepancy or incongruity between what seems to be (appearance) and what is (reality)” (Schakel and Redl 239). Three short stories in Approaching Literature that have irony in them
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The story is about a man, Montresor, and this plan to seek vengeance on a beloved, rich, and respectable man, Fortunato, by beguiling him with amontillado, leading up to his trapping for eternity in Montresor’s catacombs. He had an evil plan that was extraordinarily well-contructed and Montresor could be interpreted as a meticulous psychopath. Dramatic irony is created in this work in the way the audience knows that there is no amontillado they are searching for and it is just a diabolical ruse that Montresor had created to get his revenge on Fortunato. His genius ways of teasing Fortunato with wine and the taunt that Montresor was going to bring Luchesi to search for the amontillado because he knew more of wine, was a sign of dramatic irony. The audience knows these are all tricks that Montresor was contrasting signifying the effect dramatic irony has on the plot. Besides dramatic irony being shown in “The Cask of Amontillado,” it was also shown in “The Story of an Hour.” As mentioned before, the ending with the quote explaining how she dies is a prime indication of how dramatic irony is displayed. It shows the result dramatic irony has in the plot of that specific short story due to the fact that the audience very well knows that she did not die of happiness that her husband was alive, but that she died of shock. Also, “The Story of an Hour” can be related to situational irony …show more content…
Yet, he ending is not too predictable to where the reader would get the impression that the husband is going to be back and especially that she was going to die as soon as he returned. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” situational irony is employed when Fortunato starts discussing with Montresor whether or not Montresor is a mason or not. For instance, “ ‘You are not of the brotherhood.’ ‘How?’ ‘You are not of the masons.’ ‘Yes, yes,’ I said, ‘yes, yes’ ‘You? Impossible! A mason?’ ‘A mason’ I replied.” (Poe 531). This quote indicates that situational irony is present because Fortunato is talking about the secret society of the masons whereas Montresor is literally talking about building walls as an actual mason would do. This affects the plot and the audience because is shows that a reader can suppose that the thought of the secret society of the masons is going to be evident or have some kind of effect on what is to happen later in the plot, but it leads to Montresor’s wall building skills that he integrates in his wicked plan to get revenge on Fortunato. Also, this affects the characters and their misinterpretations od each other, causing the audience to believe otherwise of what was yet to happen in the
The story is about a man, Montresor, and this plan to seek vengeance on a beloved, rich, and respectable man, Fortunato, by beguiling him with amontillado, leading up to his trapping for eternity in Montresor’s catacombs. He had an evil plan that was extraordinarily well-contructed and Montresor could be interpreted as a meticulous psychopath. Dramatic irony is created in this work in the way the audience knows that there is no amontillado they are searching for and it is just a diabolical ruse that Montresor had created to get his revenge on Fortunato. His genius ways of teasing Fortunato with wine and the taunt that Montresor was going to bring Luchesi to search for the amontillado because he knew more of wine, was a sign of dramatic irony. The audience knows these are all tricks that Montresor was contrasting signifying the effect dramatic irony has on the plot. Besides dramatic irony being shown in “The Cask of Amontillado,” it was also shown in “The Story of an Hour.” As mentioned before, the ending with the quote explaining how she dies is a prime indication of how dramatic irony is displayed. It shows the result dramatic irony has in the plot of that specific short story due to the fact that the audience very well knows that she did not die of happiness that her husband was alive, but that she died of shock. Also, “The Story of an Hour” can be related to situational irony …show more content…
Yet, he ending is not too predictable to where the reader would get the impression that the husband is going to be back and especially that she was going to die as soon as he returned. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” situational irony is employed when Fortunato starts discussing with Montresor whether or not Montresor is a mason or not. For instance, “ ‘You are not of the brotherhood.’ ‘How?’ ‘You are not of the masons.’ ‘Yes, yes,’ I said, ‘yes, yes’ ‘You? Impossible! A mason?’ ‘A mason’ I replied.” (Poe 531). This quote indicates that situational irony is present because Fortunato is talking about the secret society of the masons whereas Montresor is literally talking about building walls as an actual mason would do. This affects the plot and the audience because is shows that a reader can suppose that the thought of the secret society of the masons is going to be evident or have some kind of effect on what is to happen later in the plot, but it leads to Montresor’s wall building skills that he integrates in his wicked plan to get revenge on Fortunato. Also, this affects the characters and their misinterpretations od each other, causing the audience to believe otherwise of what was yet to happen in the