The role of irony contributes to characterization by developing the characters personality and by keeping the audience engaged to feel emotion. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, he uses irony to convey emotion to get the audience intrigued. For example, Miller used dramatic irony when one of the characters, Elizabeth (a women who never lies), had lied to “save” her husband but she didn’t know that her husband already disclosed. After she lied, in tears Proctor cries “ Elizabeth, tell the truth… I have confessed it,” (113) but it was too late. This dramatic irony contribute to characterization because it connected with the audience to feel the need to tell the characters what we’ve seen that they haven’t. Equally important, Miller also uses