Dramatic Irony In Romeo And Juliet

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Juliet’s window, without her knowing, Romeo overhears her. He overhears her say, “O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?/ Deny thy father and refuse thy name!/ Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/ And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” Basically, what Juliet says that she wants to marry Romeo and will defy her father to do it. This is dramatic irony because she does not know that he is there, but the audience does. Her saying this makes him want to marry her too, and them getting married later leads up to their death.
Unlike in the previous scenes, Juliet is not involved in the dramatic irony in scene i of Act III. In this scene Tybalt derides Romeo, but he doesn’t know of Romeo’s marriage to his cousin. The irony of this scene is because the audience knows about the marriage, but Tybalt doesn’t. Death plays a part in the scene because Romeo just takes the remark from Tybalt, it angers Mercutio, and he and Tybalt fence. Romeo jumps in to try to stop them, and Mercutio gets ...

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