Monday, November 4, 2013

Dramatic Irony

When dramatic irony is used in a work of literature, readers are given an insight into situations that the characters do not have. Readers know more than the characters. With this device, the characters often believe one thing to be true, while the readers know it is not. 

Do not imagine comrades that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility  No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where would we be? 

What is ironic in Squealer's statement to the animals?

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