Which two scenarios best exemplify situational irony?
A. In Guy de Maupassant’s short st...
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Which two scenarios best exemplify situational irony?
A. In Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace,” Madame Loisel spends her entire life in poverty, trying to repay the money for a diamond necklace that she lost, only to find out in the end that the necklace was fake.
B. In Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Casque of Amontillado,” Fortunato says in the catacombs that he will not die of a cough, and Montresor replies, “True, true.” A little while later, Montresor kills Fortunato.
C. In Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Mark Antony makes a speech against Brutus to the crowd to show them that Brutus is responsible for Caesar’s death. During the speech he keeps repeating, “Brutus is an honorable man.”
D. In the ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, Oedipus’s parents decide to kill him at birth in an attempt to stop the fulfillment of a prophecy. According to the prophecy, Oedipus will grow up and kill his father. Oedipus survives and grows up with another family. However, through a tragic turn of events, Oedipus ends up killing a man that he does not know is his father.
E. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, Iago acts as a mastermind and provides false proof of Desdemona’s unfaithfulness to Othello. Othello only trusts Iago and ends up killing Desdemona. It is only after he commits this misdeed that he finds out the truth.
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