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Dramatic Irony is when the audience knows something the characters do not.
Because of this understanding, the words of the characters take on a different
meaning to the audience, and give the audience a depth of understanding that
the characters do not have. This can create intense suspense or humor.
Suspense is the intense feeling that an audience
goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. It leaves the
reader holding their breath and/or waiting for/wanting more.
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Identify
a piece of dramatic irony from
Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial ‘M’ for Murder
(i.e. an example of when you, the audience, knew something that one or more characters
did not). How is it an example of
dramatic irony? In what ways did it help
to create suspense? Explain, using specific examples or details from
the film in your response. In order to receive credit, be sure to include YOUR NAME when posting.
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ReplyDeleteA piece of dramatic irony in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” was when Mark Halliday solved the mystery of the attempted murder of Margot Wendice without knowing it. The audience knew the mystery had just been solved, but Mark didn’t. It helped create suspense because the audience didn’t know when Mark Halliday would figure out that he had just solved the case or when Tony Wendice would “crack”. Mark Halliday was trying to make something up for Tony Wendice to say to the police, but instead he solved the case without even knowing it.
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In Alfred Hitchcock's dial M for murder shows a lot of pieces of dramatic irony. one of those pieces of dramatic irony is when Margot is convinced that she killed swam for black mailing her. Margot did not mean to kill him she was just doing this for self defense cause it was swan trying to kill Margot. This is a piece of dramatic irony because it shows how the police think Margot killed swan. of corse it was part of Tonys plan to kill Margot but why would they think this. This was part of Tonys plan to kill margot and a piece of dramatic irony for the audience.
ReplyDeleteOne piece of dramatic irony happens in the beginning of Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder." Tony Wendice takes Margot Wendice's key out of her purse, and Margot is not aware. This is an example of dramatic irony, because Margot did not know that Tony took the key. Tony's action created suspense because we did not know what Tony planned on doing with the key, or if/when Margot was going to find out it was missing.
ReplyDeleteA peice of dramatic irony in Alfred Hitchcock's "dial M for Murder" was in the middle of the movie. The dramatic irony was when Tony Wendice put the blackmail letter in swans dead body. This created a suspence because we knew that Tony was blackmailing Margot and put the letters in the body but Chief inspector Hubbit and mark haliday did not.
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There are many pieces of dramatic irony in “Dial M For Murder” by Alfred Hitchcock. One was when Mark Holliday explained how Tony Wendice set Margot Wendice up for getting murdered. He explained every single small detail but only got one wrong. He explained how Tony stole the handbag and planted a blackmail note, because she was cheating. He also blackmailed Swan into trying to murder Margot Wendice. The only thing that he got wrong was where he put the keys. He explained all of tis just to be an excuse, he didn’t even know if any detail was true.
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ReplyDeleteOne piece of dramatic irony in Dial M For Murder was when Mark Halliday solved the murder case of Margot. This happened when he was trying to come up with a story that Tony would tell the police to save Margot without realizing that he solved it. We knew the story was that Tony planned for Margot to be murdered and Mark did not. This created suspense because we did not know if Mark would realize he that solved the mystery of the murder case or if Tony would tell the truth to Mark.
ReplyDeleteA piece of writing I found dramatic irony is when CJ Swan was hiding behind the curtain waiting to strangle Margot Wendice. I found this dramatic irony because the audience knew that CJ Swan was hiding behind the curtains and Margot didn't know that he was there. This helped create suspense because Swan kept leaning into Margot to strangle her but kept backing away and waited for the right moment to attack. I found this as suspense because we, as the audience, were waiting for Swan to strangle her and see what would happen next, but he kept stalling making us more anxious.
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In the piece "Dial M For Murder" by Alfred Hitchcock there are many example of dramatic irony. One piece of dramatic irony is when C.J Swan was hiding behind the curtains in Tony Wendice's house waiting to strangle Margot Wendice. We (the audience) knew that Swan was behind the curtains waiting to kill Margot but Margot had no clue that Swan was behind the curtains. It is an example of dramatic irony because "us" the audience knew something that one of the characters did not know. Some ways that this part created a suspenseful mood because we knew that Margot was going to get strangled, but Margot did not have one clue was happening.
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A piece of dramatic irony in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” Tony want Margot to be murdered because he wants to get his revange on Margot by cheating on him.Tony asked Swan to murder Margot,to get his revange.Tony told Swan the plan and do it at night while Mark and Tony were at a party. Tony called Margot,but he didn't say anything until.....Swan murder Margot. Margot killed swan with sharp scissors.Tony and Margot lied to the Inspector about what happen last night.Mark tried to figured who killed swan and why Margot got murder.The Inspector and Mark is going Swan's footsteps last night.Tony came back home and he got caught by Mark,Margot,and the Inspector.Now he had to tell the truth.
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ReplyDeleteIn the movie, Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock, there is lots of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something a character doesn’t. A great example is when Mark thinks he is making up a fictional story that could keep Margo from getting executed; he is unaware that his story is actually what happened. The audience knows that he has solved the mystery, but Mark doesn’t. This adds a good amount of humor and suspense. The humor is that it is just funny but the suspense is that we have seen Tony do many things. We know that he is a clever guy so we freak out like what is he going to do next. Yet there is never a tie in that knot because we never see him finish his master plan because he gets caught before he finishes. This also gives a cliffhanger.
Samantha Mager
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Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the characters do not. I thought that there were many different examples of dramatic irony in the movie “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” by Alfred Hitchcock. My personal favorite was when Mark figured out Tony’s plan to murder Margot, and didn’t even know that he figured out Tony’s actual murder plan. This piece is an example of dramatic irony because the audience knew Tony’s plan and that Mark had figured out the whole murder even though he didn’t know that. Suspense was definitely created. After Mark figured out Tony’s plan, I was so confused and wanted the movie to keep going. I kept saying to myself, “Oh no, what's going to happen next?” and “Is Mark going to realize he was right all along?” I guess writing horror novels does come in handy when solving crimes.
Ethan Terezakis
ReplyDeleteAn example of when I knew something that one or more characters didn’t know in Dial M for Murder is that Tony Wendice planned to murder his wife. This situation creates suspense in many ways. One example of this is when Margot was trying to figure who was the one that planned to kill her and why. A final example of this is Chief Inspector Hubbard was investigating the crime scene.
One example of dramatic irony from Alfred Hitchcock’s
ReplyDelete“Dial M for Murder” is when Swan tried to kill Margot and she didn’t know it. This is an example of dramatic irony because it made me want to jump in to the movie and warn Margot that something terrible was going to happen. It helped create suspense and I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the killer to strike when Margot was least expecting it. When Swan was behind the curtain and Margot was on the phone that is when I realized that Margot was going to die and she didn’t know it.
Jess O'Reilly
One piece of dramatic irony was when I knew that Chief Inspector Hubbard and Mark Halliday teamed up to prove that Tony Wendice was trying to kill Margot. Even though I knew Tony would get caught I still didn't really know that yet and that was very exciting. I really wanted to see if Tony would get caught. When I heard Inspector Hubbard's plan to catch Tony I thought it was very smart and I knew it would work. It was almost like he predicted the future.
ReplyDeleteOne example of dramatic irony in "Dial 'M' For Murder" was when Mark tells Tony to make up a story in order to save Margot from execution. Mark tells Tony to make up some believable story to save Margo. He says to say that he hired the man to kill Margot and that he was trying to kill her the entire time. In fact, this is actually what happened. This part of the movie is so (dramatically) ironic because Mark had actually solved the entire mystery without even knowing that he did. He had no intent of finding out exactly what happened. Tony had hired Swan to attempt to murder his wife so Tony wouldn't have to face the consequences. However, Margot fought back and actually killed Swan by stabbing him in the back with a pair of scissors. That is why the scene is so ironic.
ReplyDelete*** Also Mark and Chief Inspector Hubbard are able to put everything together and come to the conclusion that Tony hired Swan to murder Margot.
DeleteBy Ryan Leech
One piece of dramatic irony is when mark and chief inspector Hubbard planned for tony to go into the house see them and arrest tony for what he's done write I front of him was Margot she was there so she knew that tony tried to kill her.tony doesn't know they did that but we did
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An example of dramatic irony is when someone knows something that someone doesn't know. In the movie Dial ‘M’ for Murder, Tony was blackmailing Margot and no one knew. Its an example of dramatic irony because no one knew that Tony was blackmailing her and was going to kill her. It helped create suspense by how I wanted every one to know that Tony was the bad guy. Also when the inspector knew that Margot and Mark were together and Tony never knew. It's an example of dramatic irony because Tony never knew that the inspector already knows about Margot and Mark. It helped create suspense because Tony and the audience never knew that the inspector knows about Margot and Mark.
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