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oliviax3
oliviax3
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High School - 9th Grade

What is the situational irony and dramatic irony in "The Necklace"?

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Posted by oliviax3 on Monday October 19, 2009 at 3:31 PM and tagged with dramatic irony, irony, literature, situational irony, the necklace.

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  1. scarletpimpernel Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Situational irony is, simply put, when the opposite of what one expects to happen occurs.  In "The Necklace," Guy de Maupassant relies once again on his dark situational irony to end the story and advance his theme.  At the end of the story, Mathilde who despises hard labor and anything unglamorous discovers that she has sacrificed the best years of her life to replace a necklace that she discovers is a fake.  Someone who prided herself in such taste and appearance could not even tell the difference between the artificial and valuable.

    While this story does not have much dramatic irony, de Maupassant does include some in that Madame Forestier knows all along that the necklace is not real and chooses not to tell Mathilde earlier.  Thus, a character in the story is privy to information that another character does not know.

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    Posted by scarletpimpernel on Monday October 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM

  2. alphadav
    alphadav Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    in the story of "THE NECKLACE " their arer many irony's

    • when his husband brings the invitiation card for the ball of his minister. She through the card and tell what she can do with this card(she wants all good to happen in her life.).
    • she likes her friend forester so much ,but when she went to her friends house from then she was jealous,shy and feels poor. 

     

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    Posted by alphadav on Sunday October 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM