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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Look on my works, ye mighty...
Can you think of other examples of situational and cosmic irony that we have encountered in the works we've read?
I believe another example of situational and even cosmic irony would be Shakespeare's Macbeth. Indeed, Macbeth gave up everything he had, his honor, his loyalty and even his sanity, to become king. Much like Ozymandias, Macbeth had his "works" to show off, and also similarly to Ozymandias, everything he worked so hard for ended up in "ruins" and "decay." Another example of this could be found in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which Victor devotes his whole life to science, to the reanimation of the dead. Yet, after all his hard work, and all the sacrifices he made for it, it was his Creation that ended up ruining him. He, much like Macbeth, never really took much time to weigh out the consequences and therefore ended up in a situation he never would have imagined possible.
I believe another example of situational and even cosmic irony would be Shakespeare's Macbeth. Indeed, Macbeth gave up everything he had, his honor, his loyalty and even his sanity, to become king. Much like Ozymandias, Macbeth had his "works" to show off, and also similarly to Ozymandias, everything he worked so hard for ended up in "ruins" and "decay."
ReplyDeleteAnother example of this could be found in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which Victor devotes his whole life to science, to the reanimation of the dead. Yet, after all his hard work, and all the sacrifices he made for it, it was his Creation that ended up ruining him. He, much like Macbeth, never really took much time to weigh out the consequences and therefore ended up in a situation he never would have imagined possible.