... have of our own world. Insidiously yet unabashedly delighting in the power to frustrate inherent in limited perspective, Hawthorne toys further with his audience by trolling them along with dramatic irony, using what should give readers confidence in their knowledge to ultimately disarm them into a state of complete uncertainty and suspense. By the time we have reached Chapter 18, Hawthorne has ... the judge is indeed dead. However, the narrator follows this with the buoyant comment, "A most refreshing slumber, doubtless!" We want to believe that this positivity is merely dramatic irony...

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... -looking" and she turns out to be the mother of his converser. While us readers would expect the Marquess to react with shame and embarrassment at his howler, there is irony and incongruity in his response as it is entirely different from what we would expect; all the Marquess says is "My dear, how too shaming" before immediately returning to what ... ...

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... from the dominant experimental position which they believed lacked validity as it took no account of intergroup relations in a social context or considered any broader cultural and historical factors. The irony of this is that social identity theory came about initially through Henri Tajfel's experimental laboratory based research on social perception which highlighted cognitive biases. His results suggested that people overestimate ... ...

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... state not out of free will but rather out of fear of punishment. Hence, they become involved in the process of their own subjugation by the political authority. Orwell uses irony to further illustrate the animals' submissiveness. This is manifested, for example, in the exaltation of the hen claiming that «  'Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid ... ...

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