macbeth
In Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, comic relief and dramatic irony play an Important part in the play. ... Two incidents that contain dramatic irony are when Macbeth contemplates the consequences of teaching people to kill and when Lady Macbeth goes crazy due to her guilt after being involved in several murders. ... 89) The porter pretends that Macbeth’s castle is hell and that he is the porter of the gate of hell. He calls Macbeth the devil. ... An incident where dramatic irony was used and could have been seen as humorous occurs when Macbeth says “ That we but teach/ them bloody instructions which being taught return/ to plague the inventor. ... This is some what humorous because Macbeth is teaching others to kill and although the same people who he has taught to kill will not kill him, Shakespeare displays to the audience that what goes around comes around and that crime does not pay.