Part one of term paper
William Shakespeare used dramatic irony in each and every one of his comedies, tragedies, and histories. Dramatic irony, a literary device in which the audience knows something that a character or group of characters don’t, is used in this tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Sometimes, we do not understand the irony, but there are at least five exa ...

Part two of term paper
... by Tybalt and Lord Capulet, but Lord Capulet tells Tybalt to let them be. This is ironic because the audience knows that the maskers, Romeo and his friends, have been noticed, but they do not. Tybalt letting them be, as told by Capulet, lets the two lovers fall in love instantly, which later leads up to the death of the lovers because there would have never been a catastrophe, if the lovers never met. Like in the first example, the dramatic irony in Act II, scene ii also involves the two lovers. W ...