--Originally Used In Maine South English Class, 5/01/01-- Since the dawn of man’s ability to communicate and regale one another with story, the figurative tool of irony has been a staple to the successful entertainer. Irony, though easy to appreciate, is a difficult nuance to grasp, and many times more to befittingly integrate it into one’s prose. For this reason, Shakespeare’s work, notably that of Romeo and Juliet, is an extremely impressive …showed first 75 words of 1400 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1400 total…a star in his time and a legend in ours. Man’s love for well-crafted story whose eloquent irony finds itself cleverly woven in to every detail has not changed, nor has the bard’s vision or genius. It is an ironic paradox that writers the world over should find promise, enlightenment, hope, and joy in the phrase “For never was a story of more woe/ Than that of Juliet and her Romeo.”(III,V,315)