The Humor of Pride and Prejudice Of all the novels that Jane Austen has written, critics consider Pride and Prejudice to be the most comical. Humor can be found everywhere in the book; in it's character descriptions, imagery, but mostly in it's conversations between chara...

A Passage to India - Forster's Comic Irony What aspect of A Passage to India justifies the novel's superiority over Forster's other works? Perhaps it is the novel's display of Forster's excellent mastery of several literary elements that places it among the greatest novels of the twentieth century...

The Theme of Marriage and the use of Irony in Pride and Prejudice The apparent theme of this novel is husband hunting. Mrs. Bennet is anxious to secure suitable matches for their five daughters. The young girls are also separately eager to settle down. The Lucas family is worried about their plai...

Garcia Marquez's "Death Constant Beyond Love." Gabriel Garcia Márquez uses the technique of magical realism in his novels as well as his short stories to blend reality and fantasy so that the distinction between the two erases. Irony is the use of words and images, to conve...

"It is a truth universally acknoledged, that a singlr man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Within this opening line Austen instantly introduces us to the comic irony and surroundings of "Pride and prejudice." The use of the words "universally acknowlrdged" humoursly ...

In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, suffering is an integral part of every character's role. Dostoevsky uses comic characters as instruments for competing ideological issues. A typical example is the loquacious bar room character Marmeladov, an alcoholic with an ironic abstract...