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"They fell on him and slew him, two to one. Then said the first of them when this was done, "Now for a drink. Sit down and let's be merry, For later on there'll be the corpse to bury." And, as it happened, reaching for a sup, He took a bottle full of poison up And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also, and they perished both." It is clear that in lines 277 through 284, that dramatic irony comes into play. The audience know the men are planning to kill each other, but the men do not know and that is why they all perish. Personally, I really enjoy dramatic irony because it is funny to realize that I know more of what is going on than the people in the work. This one in particular made me chuckle a little because they kill each other without realizing the other was planning to do the same and it is just a funny situation.
Chaucer uses irony numerous times in The Pardoner's Tale in the forms of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. My favorite line of irony was, "If it be your design to find out Death, turn up this crooked way towards that grove, I left him there today under a tree, and there you'll find him waiting. He isn't one to hide for all your prating." This is a perfect example of situational irony. The three men are searching to kill Death, and go to an old oak tree, trying to find him. However, by the end of the story, they are all killed by Death. This is completely the opposite of what the men had intended to happen, which is what makes it so ironic. This situational irony is actually very humorous because of their sheer stupidity in the first place, and because of how it all turned out in the end despite their original intentions.
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