Marlowe’s use of irony in Doctor Faustus

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

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Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

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QNO2:  Comment on Marlowe’s use of irony in Doctor Faustus.

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rony is the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Marlove’s Doctor Faustus has many ironies in it.

To begin with, Doctor Faustus holds a sort of balance of opposites between morality and heroic strains of tragedy. This oppositional balance is not simply thematic or intellectual but is the core of drama, and particularly that of tragedy, defined as irony. Marlow follows the dramatic form of the play but the point of Marlow‘s irony is a dilemma on the part of.........................

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