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Irony In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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This play shows multiple examples of irony throughout the story. Shakespeare shows that in the story because all the characters feeling were mixed up while they were in The fairies forest. King Oberon wanted his wife, Titania to love something bad so he told one of his fairies to go and get a flower that when is applied on the eyes, makes the person love the first thing they see. The first thing she saw was a donkey.

Like that one, after he turned into a donkey he didn't realize why his friends were running away. Another example is when no one likes Helena. but after Robin puts the spell on Lysander and Demetrius, they both like her and she thinks they are being sarcastic and get mad. But earlier in the
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