... to reach her husband (and brother) in spite of adverse Fate, and of a cunning enemy, killed all sense of bodily pain within her, and rendered her instincts doubly acute" (234). Here Marguerite's character stays strong while she overcomes all obstacles. For a third literary device, Orczy exercises irony through the character of Marguerite. Meditating on matters of the heart, Marguerite thinks to herself "could it ... be that with the waning of (my) husband's love, (my) heart had awakened with love for him?"(57). Also, early on in the ... betrayed, and sent to his death" (240). This is i...

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... on a love story. Works of the master of both tragedy and comedy William Shakespeare can illustrate this proximity of the tragic and the comic. Let us look at his "Romeo and Juliet- and "Much Ado about Nothing,"" a tragedy and a comedy, respectively, to see the similar literary devices used by Shakespeare in two ... genres, which are considered to be the exact opposite of each other. Both "Romeo and Juliet- and "Much Ado about Nothing- tell the audience about love stories that ... ignore the reasons that keep them apart, comic reasons in the comedy, and tragic in the tragedy. The disguise...

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