Irony Essays

Elements of Irony in Native Son Native Son paints a disturbing, harsh picture of life within the “Black Belt” of Chicago in the 1940s. Wright uses irony; sometimes subtly and at other times obviously to shape the view of the reader and as a foreshadowing mechanism. From our initial scene …

The Company Man AP Essay Ms. Goodman’s attitude towards Phil, the work-aholic subject of her column is that of disgust, disappointment, and ridicule. She’s sarcastically saddened that he wasted his life and ignored his children for his job and executive status. She hints that the obituary does not accurately describe …

With many variations of fantasies, “Happily ever after” is reoccurring in every fairy tale. “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton is a different variation of the classic tale. The author sets up her version of Cinderella with four anecdotes sharing how others can go from poverty to riches or gritty reality to …

Eavan Boland’s poem “The Necessity for Irony” begins in narrative tone, when on a unremarkable Sunday Eavan, with her daughter, go browsing for antiques in town. However, by the end of the poem, Eavan’s tone is lyrical, as she sends an apostrophe to the “spirit of irony,” asking it to …

Irony is a strategy writers use to set contrast between what is supposed to be true and what is reality, just as in verbal irony, an author might say or write one thing and at the same time mean the complete opposite. In the story by Frank R. Stockton “The …

In the short story “The Rocking Horse-Winner” by D. H. Lawrence it is illustrated that money cannot buy happiness. The short story displays the way people allow money to control their lives. The passage includes the literary devices; character development, contrast, suspense and dramatic irony. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is written …

Satire means irony. People use satire to expose folly or vice. Interestingly, in Voltaire’s Candide and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, they both use satire to express their profound observations. They have some similarities; such as they both criticize the human weakness. They also have many differences between them. In “Candide”, Voltarie …

In this essay Goodman retaliates at the middle class, constantly trying to become the upper class in a fit of greed lost in a fog. The Company Many is an ironic essay, in which the main character “Phil” represents every American that loses touch with reality in the fog of …

In The Necklace and The Story of an Hour both Guy de Maupassant and Kate Chopin use irony and descriptive narration to portray Mathilde Loisel and Margaret Mallard as female protagonists whose thoughts and actions are at odds with the expectations of society and the norms of 19th century marriage. …

When the idea of a birthday party comes to mind, it usually associates feelings of a joyous and lavish celebration shared with family and close friends. Contrasting toward that idea, Katharine Brush in “Birthday Party” portrays how joyless a marriage can be when the two companions are bound to the …