Use of irony in Crime and Punishment and A Doll's HouseThere are many connections between Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and A House doll, by Henrik Isben. Each character goes through many ironic situations. In both works dramatic, situational and verbal irony is used. Dramatic irony is used in Crime and Punishment. The reader knows that Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov killed the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta Ivanovna. A quote to support this thesis is as follows: "He took out the ax, swung it with both hands, barely conscious of what he was doing, and almost effortlessly, almost effortlessly, almost mechanically, he lowered the butt on the old man. head of a woman. » (Dostoevsky 114)No one in the novel knows who killed the pawnbroker and his sister, except Raskolnikov. Police officer Porfiry Petrovich suspects Raskolnikov of having killed the pawnbroker and his sister, but he cannot prove it. The reader also knows that Luzhin puts money in Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladov's pocket when she is not looking. After Sofia, whose nickname is Sonia, finishes talking to Luzhin, she leaves. Sonia does not know that Luzhin put money in her pocket. Raskolnikov's friend Andrei Semionovich Lebezyatnikov was present when all this happened. “All this was observed by Andrei Semyonovitch.” (Dostoevsky 460) Luzhin goes to a reception for Sonia's father, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, and announces that Sonia is a thief. Sonia immediately denies the accusation. Luzhin tells him to look in his pocket. Indeed, the money he lacked was there. Luzhin wants Sonia to marry him but she doesn't love him. Luzhin plans to blackmail Sonia into marrying him. The...... middle of paper ......ire. Nora simply says that the temperature inside the house is hot. Nora then gets up and: “Close the stove door and move the rocking chair aside. » (Isben 15) All three types of irony are used throughout both works. Crime and Punishment and A Doll's House would be incomplete without irony. Irony plays an important role in any type of literature. Irony is used to show the opposite of what is actually said and/or done. I think that without irony, there would be no literature. I think literature would be boring and simple if there was no irony to add to its originality and creativity. Works cited: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and punishment. Trans. Constance Garnett. New York: Modern Library, 1950. Ibsen, Henrik. A doll's house. In four major pieces. Trans. James McFarlane and Jens Arup. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.