Waking Ned Devine and the Drunkard Contrast

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Waking Ned Devine, a comedy film written and directed by Kirk Jones, in a broad sense is about a man who wins the lottery after playing all his life only to die from the shock of it and have the villagers claim the ticket for themselves after his death. Although its rather… grim plot Jones used Irony in several different ways to move and shape the plot throughout the movie to one of more interest to viewers. As for Frank O’Conner’s The Drunkard, Irony was used mainly during the climax of the story to help catch the reader’s attention and to make the plot.
The most obvious... And perhaps only forum of irony Kirk Jones used In the film Waking Ned Devine is situational Irony. In fact, Jones used situational irony to draw attention to the main parts of the story such as when Ned had died from winning the lottery after playing his whole life, only to die from shock shortly after. Another example would be when the man who worked for the lottery was divining back after issuing the cheque almost hit the phone booth with the woman in it, he did miss it but unfortunately in his attempts to avoid it he had caused another vehicle to swerve out of control and knock it off the mountain. What made this so important and ironic is that she was the only person in the village that had not agreed to sign saying that she will lie about Ned being alive and strangely enough… It is actually the priest who had hit her off the mountain and killed her. Evidently it is quite obvious that Kirk Jones had intentionally used irony at a good portion of the main events in the film to help build the viewer’s interest and to move the plot forward throughout the film.
Similarly to Waking Ned Devine, Frank O’Conner’s The Drunkard uses one very obvious form of irony, Situational. The best example in the story of situational irony is when the son went to the bar with his father to

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