Web definitions for Dramatic Irony is a circumstance in which characters reveal their inability to understand their own situation. Dramatic irony is most effective when characters make fateful choices based on information the reader realizes is incorrect.
My original thought was: no, it's not dramatic irony because the character still is aware of the situation. In the case of Hamlet one might say that he feigns madness and therefore ignores the situation, but is it dramatic irony? Not in that case. Certainly the "irony" that exists in dramatic irony is that between the audience and the play - the audience knows something that the character doesn't and when the character acts on his/her misinformation the irony takes place even though we saw it coming. There's a nullification of the irony even in the case that the character acts on misinformation that he already knows is false -- he's doing it for another reason and therefore it isn't ironic.
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is a circumstance in which characters reveal their inability to understand their own situation. Dramatic irony is most effective when characters make fateful choices based on information the reader realizes is incorrect.
My original thought was: no, it's not dramatic irony because the character still is aware of the situation. In the case of Hamlet one might say that he feigns madness and therefore ignores the situation, but is it dramatic irony? Not in that case. Certainly the "irony" that exists in dramatic irony is that between the audience and the play - the audience knows something that the character doesn't and when the character acts on his/her misinformation the irony takes place even though we saw it coming. There's a nullification of the irony even in the case that the character acts on misinformation that he already knows is false -- he's doing it for another reason and therefore it isn't ironic.
I hope I haven't rained on your wedding day. :-P
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