What is the irony in the Tell of the melon city ?
Answers
he tale of melon city” is best understood for its irony and humour.
Humour – The king decides to make an arch across the thoroughfare to edify the spectators. He creates a humorous scene when he dashes with the arch and loses his crown.
-The king is of the mind of punishing the guilty that made the faulty arch. His chasing one after another and their excuses and blaming the king indirectly presents a ludicrous show.
-When the wisest man is called, his conclusion of pointing the arch to be the culprit and their assay to hang it, giggles us.
-we cannot but grin when we find the king to be the fittest person for the hang.
-The process of choosing the new king and melon as the king creates utmost humour in us.
IRONY
-The king who desired for a hang to punish the guilty, gets hanged for the public wanted a hang.
-The wise man was selected because he was old and he could not see anything and points the arch to be the guilty and should be hanged without any precision.
-The ministers chose a king on basis of a fool’s choice. i.e. a melon. And all accepted without bothering whether the king was human or not.