These four examples of verbal irony highlight the negative results of Eckels’s cowardly actions to present the themes that small decisions can greatly impact the world and that beauty is a quality which mankind must preserve.ĭramatic irony heightens the aforementioned Man Vs.
The catastrophic consequences of Eckels’s decision lend additional credence to two more of his verbally dramatic statements: “If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results” and “Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today.” Eckels’s untimely travails throw the election to Deutscher, and because the future Eckels creates is a society of violent hunters, he is quite right that they will all envy him. Man conflict with Travis, who finally kills him, and ensures Deutscher’s Man Vs. Nature conflict with the butterfly, loses a Man Vs. Eckels’s “r-eckles-s” killing of the butterfly, which symbolizes beauty, is a seemingly insignificant action which catalyses three conflicts: he wins a Man Vs.
I’ve done nothing!”) even more verbally dramatic irony. The desk clerk of the old future despites the “anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual” Deutscher, but the new clerk reveres him: “We got an iron man now, a man with guts, by God!” This victory of war over peace gives Eckels’s denials of wrongdoing (“I’m innocent. Man conflict between Deutscher, whose name and policies allude to Nazi Germany and who symbolizes war, and Keith, a kinder, gentler politician who symbolizes peace. Verbally dramatic irony intensifies the Man Vs.
In “A Sound of Thunder”, Ray Bradbury uses verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to present conflicts and symbols which communicate the themes that small actions have huge consequences and mankind must protect beauty because beauty cannot protect itself.
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