Question

The story ‘The Tiger King’ is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ the literary device of dramatic irony in the story?


(125-150 words)

Answer 1

Dramatic irony is employed in theater, movies or even in poems wherein the audience knows about the irony that is inherent, but the characters are unaware of it. Kalki uses the literary device, i.e. dramatic irony very effectively to heighten the effect of the turn that fate takes when the Tiger King has to kill the hundredth tiger. As the astrologer challenges him to be beware of the hundredth tiger, when he kills (seemingly) the hundredth tiger, the reader knows more than the Tiger King that the tiger is not killed. The tiger just faints which the readers and king's officers come to know soon after. However, convinced of having altered his fate and having proved the astrologer wrong, the king is ironically killed by the hundredth tiger, though a wooden tiger only.

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