Comparison Of Situational Irony In Treasure Island And Cyrano De Bergerac

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In The Princess Bride, Cyrano De Bergerac, and Treasure Island, Inigo Montoya, a wizard in fencing, Cyrano De Bergerac, a poetic cadet, and Jim Hawkins, a feared sailor, experience different yet similar adventures in their respective books. In The Princess Bride, William Goldman introduces Inigo as a villain trying to kill the princess bride, Buttercup. Also, in Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand introduces Cyrano as a crazy poet who threatened to kill an actor, Montfleury, just because he did not like the way he acted. On the other hand, Robert Louis Stevenston introduces Jim Hawkins as an innocent boy scared by a pirate. These three characters demonstrate situational irony, but the exodus of the exposition and the genesis of the plot of characters