The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power . How does the author employ the literacy device of dramatic irony in the story?
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the story is indeed a satire on the conceit of those in power. The tiger King has been used as the symbol of this conceit.
the astrologers tell him that his death will come from a tiger. after the king has killed a tiger, he is filled with conceit. he calls the state astrologer and says proudly, "what do you say now?" the astrologer says humbly, " your majesty may kill ninety-nine tigers in the same manner, but you must be very careful with the hundredth tiger."
The proud King vows that only after killing the hundred tigers, he will attend to any other thing. did the king think that death would not come to him after that? And very foolishly he starts hunting tigers to achieve his goal.
after the hundredth has been killed ( thought not by him), he feels that he has no fear of any tiger now. But ironically, his death comes soon after from a tiger only. and it comes not from a real tiger, but from a sliver of a toy tiger. Thus the author has satirised the conceit of those in power through the device of dramatic irony.
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The author has used the device of irony in order to highlight the satire on the conceit of those who are in power. ... An irony is a technical device used by the authors to highten the fact that provides the result which is quite opposite in nature.