1. Name : Virani Nilam
Role No.:18
Sem:4
Paper:E-C-405(Thomas Hardy)
Submitted to:
S.B.Gardi Department of English,
S.M.K. Bhavnagar University

2. •It has humorous or emphatic effect.

3. Basic features of Irony

4. Types of Irony
Socratic irony: a mask of innocence and ignorance adopted to
win an argument
Dramatic or tragic irony: a double vision of what is happening in
a play or real-life situation
Linguistic irony: duality of meaning

5. Cont...
Structural irony: a quality that s built into texts, in which
narrator point up deeper implications of a situation
Romantic irony: in which writers conspire with readers to
share the double vision of what is happening in the plot of novel

6. Cosmic Irony in Hardy’s novel:
Mode of philosophical expression
 features
 Person’s desire and Opposite outcome
 Person’s mismarriage
e.g. Marriage of Eustesia and Clym, First
meeting of Angle with Tess

7. Irony in ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’
Henchard discovering Elizabeth-Jane's true parentage at such
an inappropriate time.
when Mrs. Goodenough only betrays Henchard's past because
Susan and Elizabeth-Jane remind her of it.