Jane Austen's use of Irony | 'Pride and Prejudice'

  Irony means difference between appearance and reality. Jane Austen has introduced ironic situations, ironic characters and narrative irony very frequently in her well reputed novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ . Ironic situation occurs when a character condemns something at one time and accepts that very thing after some time. Then, there are ironic characters who think that they are very respectable, honourable and worthy persons but, in fact, they are ridiculed and made fun of. They think that they are elevating themselves by their certain actions but these very actions become a great source of disgrace for them. When they are disillusioned, the readers get amused with it. Narrative irony means to describe a trivial object at a very high level, or to say, to use heavy and jaw-breaking words for less important things. It is also a great source of amusement. The very theme of the novel is ironic . There are two types of characters in the novel i.e. simple and intricate characte...