Examples Of Irony In Romeo And Juliet

Treyvionte Moorer

April 30, 2015

1st Period Irony is a very important piece used in literature all over the world. Many of the world greatest writers used Irony in their writing pieces. Irony is sometimes confused with a coincident, actually there’s a huge difference between the two. Irony can be divided into three categories such as verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. Irony is one of the many techniques that authors use to grasp their readers attention. The rhetorical device of irony is usually deeper than what the author is implying. In the play Romeo & Juliet Irony helps make the play what the play has become today. Verbal irony is used many times in the famous play Romeo and Juliet. Juliet Father wants her to marry a guy named Paris

It’s the day Juliet and Paris Wedding and the nurse goes to Juliet’s room to awake her for her Supposed to be big day. When she walks in she finds what she thinks that Juliet has died. Capulet Find out and says to Paris in act 4 scene 5 line 37, “O son, the night before thy wedding Hath death lain with thy life”. Which he is saying the night before you and Juliet is supposed to get married she has died. Lord Capulet is losing his mind. Tybalt tries to fight Romeo, but Romeo says no due to him being related to Tybalt because he just married his cousin Juliet. Mercutio Romeo’s best friend says well if he won’t fight you then I will. Tybalt kills Mercutio, and Romeo kills Tybalt. Romeo knows he has made a mistake so in act 3 scene 1 line 98 Romeo says “O, I am fortune’s fool”. He knows he has just tended his whole future with Juliet because he has killed one of her family members. There is no way Juliet’s family will approve of him and her being

There are tons of things that the audience knows in this play that only if the characters knew maybe Romeo and Juliet would have actually been together. Romeo opens the tomb and discovers that Juliet is dead. She is not really dead; she has drunk a potion that was supposed to last for 42 hours. A letter was being sent to Romeo to let him know what is going on but the letter didn’t make it to him before he left. When he makes it to the tomb and discovers Juliet, she is getting ready to awake from the potion so all of her features are coming back. To Juliet Romeo says in act 5 scene 3 lines 110 – 114, “Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous, and that the learn abhorred monster keeps thee her in dark to be his paramour “. Juliet has always been a beautiful girl, but when her family found her dead she actually looked pale like the life had been sucked out of her body. Romeo looks at her and sees how appealing she is looking and he is like you are so beautiful even when you are dead. Romeo no longer wants to live if he has to live without Juliet so he drinks some poison, and yes the poison is strong. Romeo says in act 5 scene 3 line 131 “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die “.The poison is working very fast. He gives Juliet his last kiss then he