Situational irony happens when events in a story are the opposite of what the reader or character expects to happen. For example, one time I went to a horse show and I felt very well prepared, but my horse ended up being hurt. Also, in the story "Thank you M'am", a young African boy tries to steal a purse from an African American woman. He thinks she will bring him to jail, but she helps him instead. In the short story "The Necklace", we learned that Mathilde borrowed a fake necklace from a very
Situational irony can be used to produce humor or sympathy or justice. Situational irony is used everywhere even though people may not see it. Like in the short story “Ransom of Redchief” O. Henry used humor to create situational irony. Or in the short story “The Necklace” Guy de Maupassant used sympathy or justice to create situational irony. Examining both stories, O. Henry and Guy de Maupassant used humor or sympathy to create surprises in the story with situational irony. O. Henry creates humor
Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace,” puts an ironic twist on the not-so-classic riches to rags adventure. The story begins by introducing the reader to the main character, Mathilde Loise. Mathilde desires a life of delicacy and luxury, but lives a rather normal lifestyle. When Mathilde’s husband scores an invitation to an upper-class dinner event, Mathilde becomes concerned about what she will wear in order to blend in with the rest of the crowd. She then frantically decides to ask one
Longaville presented a necklace to his love, Maria, while Dumaine gave a glove to Katherine. The princess received a jeweled broach by her suitor, the King of Navarre. Lastly, Rosaline obtained a hair piece from Berowne. A necklace, a jeweled broach, a glove, and a hair piece symbolized the pairings between each lady and her suitor. Once Boyet communicated the men’s plan to disguise
“Cannibal Tours” is a documentary directed by: Dennis O’Rourke in 1988. It was a documentary based on rich tourist exposing “global tourism” as they traveled to the Sepik River in New Papua Guiana. These tourists were mainly Europeans traveling through the different villages with camcorders to capture memories with the natives. They were communicating with natives and trying to get a sense of their culture and there ways of living in pure nature. Although the Europeans couldn’t understand the basic
of purity and virtuousness. In the opening scenes of the book, Blanche is dressed in “…a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear-rings of pearl, white gloves and a hat…” (Williams 117). This symbolism of color is ironic to the fact that Blanche is immoral in character; living a live full of lies, is promiscuous and is linked to someone who murders her lover. The irony brought out by color is further underlined when Blanche says, Well, life is too full of evasions and ambiguities, I think