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Module 1.11 Discovering Irony
What I learned doing this assignment is…..Irony is the opposite of what you expect. It appears to be one thing but it’s really something else. The 1973 Sci-Fi movie “Soylent Green” appears to be a miracle food but it turns out to be……..(disturbing)
Assignment 1 “Mr. Robot”
Elliot is sent by Allsafe to a Server Farm to protect the Servers of E-Corp from hackers but he is the ultimate hacker!
Mr. Robot begins as a confrontational ally but is eventually shown to be Elliot’s father.
Tyrell Wellick begins as an adversary but is really an ally.
Angela Moss hates E-Corp but winds-up working for them.
Assignment 2
My series “Perfect Candidate”.
Irony in the Plot:
1. All the candidates imagine the JOB they are competing for is one thing but it is not what anyone expects…..TBD….drives the series.
2. The corporation “Nebularkin” on the surface appears to be multi-national conglomerate but it is not what anyone expects…..TBD….drives the series.
3. The candidates seem like average people competing for a very lucrative corporate job but….these are not your average people…….revealed end of season 1.
Irony in the Characters:
1. Fabio Fernando – appears to be a charming person, he acts like a friend but is really a manipulative sociopath.
2. Jake Marlow – only person who knows one of the candidates is NOT who he/she says they are.
3. Verna Williams – Had a job as a “Safety Instructor” for the county school system but she put her car in neutral instead of park, causing the car to roll backwards down a hill into traffic, seriously injuring her mother and several others.
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Example Show: Secrets and Lies
Biggest irony – Ben has been looking for the person who killed his son and all this time it’s been a person living right under his nose, someone he loves and trusts.
Even though his daughter was trying to keep their family together, she pulled them all further apart.
The more Ben tried to persuade people of his innocence, the more he convinced people of his guilt.
ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show
Kim’s Creating Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment are places to hone in on, making sure I give greater depth to my characters and their situations.
The biggest irony is that the whole time we think Eric and Natalie are meant for each other, and that Krystal is about to ruin their soulmate situation, only to realize Krystal is the one meant for Eric.
Eric pretends he doesn’t have an issue with his personalities. He wants people to like and respect him. The irony: He’ll feel a personality breaking through and leave so that he doesn’t show it to anyone, which makes him come off like an asshole.
Natalie is the “perfect wife, stepmom, neighbor” etc., acting like she has everything together. But at home alone she cries, scared she’ll be found out that she’s not at all who she pretends to be.
Eric is a psychiatrist, yet he is horribly crippled by his own mental issues.
Natalie is a yoga instructor, yet her anxiety is sky-high.
Eric makes poor decisions and has bad judgement, yet Natalie looks to him to guide her.
Natalie hates being ignored, hates being walked away from, yet married a man who does just that when he can’t handle pressure.
Natalie trusts Krystal more than anyone, yet Krystal wants to destroy Natalie.
Krystal loves to seduce men, make them her playthings, yet she finds herself repulsive.
Natalie grew up taking care of her brother Jeff, and now he needs to take care of her. (COULD JEFF BE JUSTINE, A SISTER???)
LaDonna is Natalie’s best friend, yet she leads her to Krystal, who is going to ruin Natalie’s life. This, in turn, leads to LaDonna’s demise.
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Assignments 1 and 2 Irony
What I learned from this assignment is creating irony in characters and within the story keeps the viewer engaged on many levels knowing that the nothing is as it seems.
Assignment 1
Handmaid’s Tale – Irony
Commander Waterford claims to be high morals.
He forces June to sleep him at the brothel.
The Handmaid’s gather around Jeanne to assist her with the birth of her baby. Commander Putman’s wife pretends to give birth to Janine’s baby with the wives surrounding her when he is born the baby is given to her.
Nick is an Eye protector of Gilead and reports any laws broken.
Nick breaks the law to get June out of Gilead.
Aunt Lydia claims to love her Handmaid’s she watches over.
She is frequently cruel to them and has ordered ones to be put to death.
The Handmaid’s who would not kill Janine by Aunt Lydia’s orders were sentenced to be hanged.
The hanging was staged and was done to teach them a lesson.
The Handmaid’s were also punished by defying orders no to kill Janine were made to hold stones in the freezing rain.
June was the one that who defied orders first, the Handmaid’s followed and she is the one that has her punishment reduced due to she is pregnant.
Gilead’s government claims to be ruled by the laws of God and scripture.
They murder and enslave their citizens.
June’s new shopping partner follows the rules of Gilead firmly. She also polices June if she gets out of line.
She once was a prostitute and Oxi addict.
Women are not allowed to read in Gilead.
Commander Waterford entertains June with scrabble and magazine in his private office.
Assignment #2
Irene and Jessie never reached out to help their niece Isaac’s mother when she needed them most.
They adopted her son Isaac after her death.
Grandpa Frank is the wise voice of reason and a loving grandfather figure.
Grandpa Frank in his past life was an alcoholic and drug addict that left his family.
Jessie has many sexual encounters with men.
Jessie prostitutes herself to save her family.
Calvary comes across as jovial and kind.
Calvary has done many terrible things to protect his community.
Irene’s grandmother spearheaded the movement for Native Americans to get their broken treaty land back.
Calvary’s community of ranchers suffered by having their land taken away by the Native American tribes.
Yellowsmoke’s tribe promised Irene, Jessie and Mira refuge with their nation.
Yellowsmoke banishes Irene, Jessie and Mira.
Yellowsmoke has a deep animosity with white people.
Yellowsmoke’s grandson who he loves dearly is half white.
Yellowsmoke distrusts the outside world and views white women as immoral.
Yellowsmoke has a relationship with a white women when he was young.
Isaac and Mira see and hear Grandpa Frank.
Irene and Jessie don’t.
Irene is the responsible one that claims to make sacrifices for the family.
Jessie makes the sacrifice to leave the safety of the Omaha and takes her chances with a new community with Mira.
Calvary is very welcoming when Irene and the family arrives.
He does not let them stay.
The Ojibwe wants Irene and the family to stay with them.
The family cannot stay.
Irene has maps of secret territories that her grandmother started.
She does not share them with the family.
Irene projects herself as a confident capable person.
Irene is very insecure.
Willie at the displacement camp projects himself as ignorant and unstable.
Willie works with bandits by tipping them off on the family’s whereabouts when they are on the road.
Most of the United State is a desolate wasteland due to war, ecological and economic collapse.
Many Native American Nation and the Sandhills nation ecosystem and economy is intact.
Mira is a devout Muslim.
Mira looks up to Jessie who does not lead the life of a Muslim.
Jessie projects to care the least.
In reality Jessie cares the most.
Bandit projects themselves as benevolent protectors.
They are thieves, murderers and are involved in drug and human trafficking.
The US government claims to protect the citizens that are left.
The US Government gives very little aid to people.
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Lesson Eleven: Discovering Irony
Assignment 1: Sample Show is The Vampire Diaries
Character Irony
Damon is dangerous and unpredictable but he saves Elena from a car crash and a vampire.
Damon appears able to stay disconnected from everybody, even his brother, but he is hopelessly in love with Katherine.
Stefan wants to be honest with Elena for the sake of their relationship, but he ends up lying to her to protect his relationship.
Stefan doesn’t kill humans to feed on their blood, but he has incredibly strong urges to do so because he is a vampire.
Elena, the successful, well-loved member of her family, turns out to be adopted.
Elena values honesty and facing the truth, but keeps Stefan and Damon’s secrets from her friends and family.
Alaric seems to be an ordinary high school history teacher, but, in reality, he is a vampire hunter.
Logan seems to be his old self when he reappears, but he has been turned into a vampire.
Matt is the popular high school jock, but he is not the stereotype. He respects Stefan’s love for Elena, his former girlfriend, and he cares for Caroline when her best friends are angry with her and ignoring her.
Caroline is the popular cheerleader and selfish party girl, but she is vulnerable with Matt.
Tyler is the tough guy at school who is verbally abused by cowed by his overbearing father.
Situational Irony
Damon appears to be coming to Elena’s rescue from an angry vampire, but he is blindsided and Elena, who has no supernatural powers, uses empathy to rescue Damon from death.
Elena, who is generally serious and the good girl who has lost her parents, is able to let go and have fun for the first time since her parents’ death in the company of Damon, whom she detests and doesn’t trust.
To protect Elena from harm, Stefan wants to leave Mystic Falls, even though he loves her desperately.
Stefan appeared to meet Elena for the first time in high school, but he first encountered her when she was in a car crash with her parents, and he saved her life.
To keep her brother Jeremy safe from spiraling even further down a drug and delinquent path, Elena gives up her values of honesty and facing the truth and allow Damon to compel Jeremy to forget all about vampires killing Vicky, and instead make him think she left town.
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Assignment 2: Phyllis Creating Irony!
I learned to dive deeper into my characters’ values, and look beneath each major situation, to discover irony.
Character Irony
· Duncan is an outgoing, well-connected billionaire who is fighting climate change with practical means, like supporting politicians who believe in climate change and climate scientists, all the while believing in monstrous creatures.
· Duncan wants to save the world but he can’t even save himself from his guilt.
· Duncan needs Sasha’s help, but he won’t abandon his headstrong ways.
· Duncan and Delia were close siblings growing up, but now they have opposing values and are enemies.
· Practical Sasha, who is suspicious of people’s motives, must make a leap of faith and trust Duncan if she wants to help reduce the harm of climate change.
· Sasha values working on her own but she can only slow climate change if she works with others.
· Sasha doesn’t trust people but she still forges relationships, like boyfriends, but she never lets them in.
· Sasha values loyalty but is willing to betray Duncan so that he won’t hurt innocents or himself.
· To save Duncan from himself, Sasha allies with her enemy, Delia.
· Sasha, who was humoring Duncan about his delusions, is shocked to find out that the monstrous creatures are real.
· Delia presents herself as a proponent of sustainability, but she’s really all about making profits.
· Sasha’s mother wants Sasha to have her own life but she has depended on her ever since and can’t let go.
· An environmental activist falls for Sasha, but he sees her as a way to lure in Duncan and have him support his group’s activities.
Situational Irony
· Duncan has billions, but money alone won’t help him find and slay monstrous creatures.
· Duncan is donating to politicians and climate scientists to use their connections and knowledge to track down the monstrous creatures.
· Duncan’s ex-wife is now working for his sister, his enemy.
· Duncan becomes the surrogate father that Sasha never had, but he is immature and impractical, just like her real father.
· Duncan’s delusions (the monstrous creatures caused by climate change) are real.
· Sasha longed for her father to return, and now she doesn’t trust his agenda.
· Sasha losing her dream job has given her a chance to develop a healing relationship with a surrogate father.
· Delia had Sasha fired because she was too good an EPA investigator and she is now working with her brother, her enemy.
· Delia is willing to offer Sasha the same deal Duncan did (funding an environmental foundation) just to stop Duncan.
· Killing the monstrous creatures will absorb carbon dioxide, so it’s part of the solution for slowing climate change.
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Mod 1 Lesson 11 Assignment 1
“The Young Pope”
Irony
· Lenny (Pius XIII) is a saint who performs miracles but may not believe in God.
· Lenny wants to impose ironclad rules for the Catholic faithful, yet he violates the tenants of confession.
· Cardinal Vioello believes his knowledge of the secrets of all Vatican players gives him a political advantage, yet Lenny seems to always know more.
· Cardinal Vioello manipulates the conclave to elect a Pope he believes he can control only to have the new Pope become a force against him.
· Archbishop Kurtwell believes he has Lenny trapped because he has discovered love letters Lenny had written but, when the letters are published, they increase Lenny’s stature.
· Cardinal Andrew Dussolier is too weak to outlaw the drug lords from the church and sacraments for their crimes but winds up dead as a result of his crime of sleeping with the drug lord’s wife.
· Cardinal Andrew Dussolier is too weak to fight Lenny over priesthood recruiting prohibitions allegedly designed to protect young boys, yet because of his weakness a young candidate commits suicide.
· Sister Mary must adhere to celibacy requirements and wears her “I Am A Virgin” night shirt but is sexually attracted to Cardinal Vioello.
· Cardinal Vioello conspires with Sister Mary to distract Lenny and have him sign his resignation papers, yet when the opportunity presents itself, Vioello cannot go through with it.
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Subject line: Nadine’s Creating Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment was different ways of expressing ironic situationsand relationships.
ASSIGNMENT 1: My example show, LOST.
✓ I watched the next episode of Lost and noticed the character irony that showed up.
✓ I saw the irony in Hurley’s ability to approach the dangerous French woman, express his anger and frustration at not understanding the sequence of numbers that keeps showing up, and not get hurt by her. She even seemed to respect his authenticity. On the other hand, “tough guys,” Jack and Sawyer, were unable to accomplish that task even though, based on size and experience, they seemed much more likely to do so.
✓ Situational irony was when the Japanese husband was accused of setting fire to Michael’s raft. Sawyer even beat him up for it. The irony was, not only did he not do it, he actually tried to put out the fire, burning his hands in the process. Another layer of irony was in discovering that the arsonist was actually Michael’s son, Walt.
ASSIGNMENT 2: My Show
✓ I looked back through the previous assignments and found 20 different situations or character components in my story that could go opposite to create irony.
✓ With each, I brainstormed ideas for ways it could go opposite and selected the ones that work well for the show. Below, I share a character and a situational irony idea.
Character Irony ideas:
1- Kuno’s dad has it all. He’s a respected police officer, he has a beautiful wife, and a son who respects him, and with whom he shares fun-filled experiences. One day, for no conceivable reason, Kuno’s Dad commits suicide.
2- The second great irony is that after her husband’s death, Kuno’s mom plots with the daughter of an old friend to set up Kuno so he will go to jail.Situational Irony Ideas:
1- Kuno has always been a high-achieving nerd, with no history of criminal activity. Yet, at only 16 years of age, he’s sentenced to adult prison for a crime he didn’t commit, based on falsified evidence and testimony.
2- In prison, after a particularly bloody beatdown, by another inmate, Kuno ends up accidentally killing the attacker… right when another old family friend has just convinced a judge to exonerate Kuno.Post your assignment in the forums at https://www.screenwritingclasses.com/forums/
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Bob’s Creating Irony!Title: “Mount Moriah”
Character Irony
· Christine is a professed religious Christian who uses sex to manipulate others.
· Najeh Tamra is a former terrorist who has entered the public arena to achieve his goals from the inside.
· Rabbi Silverberg who works with Daniel’s depression but doesn’t believe in God.
· Daniel is outwardly in control of himself; inwardly he is fighting depression, guilt and PTSD.
· Christine diminishes herself in order to prove her value.
Situational Irony
· Daniel is trying to achieve peace through violence.
· Both Daniel’s and Najeh’s positions have merit although both men see the absolute destruction of the other as the only viable outcome.
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<b data-pm-slice=”1 3 []” data-en-clipboard=”true”>ASSIGNMENT 1: Stranger Things
What I learned doing this assignment is how to look for irony.
Tell us the irony you have already discovered in the Example Show.
– a deadly monster in a small town
– a bunch of friends that play a monster board game that comes to life for real
– a fragile looking little girl with powers to destroy groups of trained soldiers
– a nerdy girl dating the local jock
– the nerdy photographer beating up the popular jock
– two realms existing together
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<b data-pm-slice=”1 1 []” data-en-clipboard=”true”>ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show
What I learned doing this assignment is how to purposely create irony but creating situational opposites.
With each, brainstorm ideas for ways it could go opposite.
1- Anthony is a Centry Soldier that has lost his memory
— Anthony is living in a way contrary to being a Centry Soldier
— Anthony is brainwashed not to believe in The CENTRY League
— Anthony looks for ways to destroy them
— Anthony kills one of them by mistake
— Anthony is brainwashed into thinking they don’t exist
2- The group house is full of misguided teens
— the teens are actually children of great people
— the teens all have great abilities to help mankind
— the teens are all framed or setup for crimes
— the group home is a front for TDO
— the group home is owned by TDO
3- the dark creatures are causing destruction to others
— the dark creatures are humans infected with the Dark Virus
— the dark creatures are Centries who were turned evil
— the dark creatures were once positive leaders in the community
— the dark creatures are help the ones they cant kill
— the dark creatures only attack those who don’t attack them
— the creatures are actually humans controlled by darkness and seeing what they are doing but cannot stop themselves
4- Anthony team was killed
— his team is not really dead
— they sacrificed themselves to save Anthony
— they were killed after saving others
— they were turned into dark creatures
— The team was captured by Anthony forgot about them after he lost his memory
5- Anthony is required to watch over misguided teens
— Anthony grew up a misguided teen himself
— Anthony fears the darkness he sees controlling the teens
— the teens are actually related to him
— his father started the group home
— the teen are told to kill him
— the group home is controlled by TDO
6- the Dark Order is trying to control society
— TDO was formed to try and help society
— TDO uses a nonprofit to build money to control others
— TDO was created by a infected CENTRY
— TDO has a non-human/demonic origin
— TDO owned a legal pharmaceutical company
— TDO’s focus can both help and destroy peoples lives
7- Anthony is an AWOL Soldier
— He doesn’t know hes AWOL
— He’s a very decorated solider in real life
— He’s actually a CENTRY Soldier as well
— His father submitted him to be AWOL
— His team is found before him
8- Anthony Father is an ancient Centry Brother
— His father went undercover in TDO
— He sent his son a message after his death
— His father warned him of his death
— His father was accused of racism
— His father was framed for crimes he didn’t commit
9- The Centry Brotherhood is an ancient order of protectors
— The brotherhood was created by the children of bandits
— The brotherhood is created to destroy a portion of humanity
— the brotherhood creates division to create unity
— the modern version of the brotherhood fights the ancient ways
— TDO has a controlling interest in the Brotherhood
10- The Military police is searching for Anthony
— they think hes AWOL when he doesn’t remember being enlisted
— he tries to enlist under his newly created identity
— the military police searching for him are part of the brotherhood
— the military police searching for him are members of TDO
— the military officers searching for him have been ordered to kill him
11- Anthony has been given a new identity and life
— his new identity was created to have him accept TDO
— hi new identity was created to make him hate the father that loved and raised him
— he was given a new identity after he was about the destroy TDO plans
— his new identity created him to be a loner when he’s a born leader
— his new identity makes him accept the control his old identity hated
12- Officer Tim has framed the boys to recruit them to TDO
— OTim got each of the boys cleared of crimes
— OTim provided for each of their financial needs
— OTim is in love with tow of the boys foster mom
— OTim set all the boys up with an opportunity to avoid jail
— OTim has hired the gangs to bully and recruit the boys for TDO
13- Edward is trying to be accepted by his family
— Edward left his family by choice
— Edwards family have all been rejected by their own personal groups
— Edwards family wants to join TDO
— Edwards family was a founding family of TDO
— Edwards family rejected him because he was immune the The Darkness
14- Edward family is part of the Dark Order
— Edward great grandmother committed him to the CL secretly
— TDO is slowly killing Edwards family as they help them
— Edwards family has gone rouge against TDO
— Edward has seen the darkness in his family gatherings but doesn’t understand what it is but he doesn’t like it
15- Chris is trying to leave his neighborhood
— Chris donates his money to secretly help the local church in his neighborhood
— Chris has sold drugs to his old school
— Chris has revealed secretes about crooked cops corrupting his neighborhood
— Chris has turned in members of his gang to the police
— Chris created neighborhood development and park restoration plans
16- Chris cousin is in a gang
— his cousin taught him about the Centry League
— his cousin introduced him to the gang
— his cousins father was corrected by the Centry League
— his cousins choose to reject the Centry League
17- Chris Kills his dad
— he dad was controlled by Darkness
— His mom told the blame for his dad
— Chris dad almost killed him and his mom several times
— Chris dad fell on the knife Chris took from him while trying to cut him
— Chris dad killed his brother by mistake
18- Ro is a teenager hitman
— Ro attacks drug dealers for kids and moms
— Ro has helped the sisters of brothers who he has beat-up
— Ro has defended kids from people that work for his father organization
— Ro is hired to protect legal citizens even though he’s an illegal alien
— Ro helps kids while fighting the cops
19- Ro’s father is missing
— his father went missing searching for his brother within the Asian mafia
— his father began to help Asian business owners
— his father began to get connected to the CENTRY League before he went missing
— he receives a letter from his missing father telling him to not follow him
20- Ro’s Mother died when they got to America
— his mother wanted to get her husband out of the Asian Dark Order
— Ro’s mother went missing but is actually being held captive by TDO to try and catch his father
— Ro is being groomed by the same Dark Order that is holding his mom captive
— The hit contracts he performs are being recorded by OTim to use against him
— every hit he performs links him more to The Dark
21- Ro is an illegal alien
— The hit contracts that Ro performs is for actually the Dark Order, he just doesn’t know it
— his papers were actually approved by OTim hide them
— He was actually born in America while visiting with his family but the records were hidden
22- Omar’s reservation was burned
— Omar reservation was burned to try and kill him
— His tribe were ancient members of the CENTRY League
23- Omar doesn’t know his family
— the Dark Order is using his desire for family to connect him with darkness
— The Dark Order had his family killed because they had the for sight to see into the dark realm and notice them
24- Francisco natural and step dad died
— his natural dad died because of his connection to the dark
— his step father died trying to expose the dark plans
— the dark order wants to recruit him
— he hates them both for leaving
25- Francisco brother follows him into the gang
— Francisco commits crimes to free his brother but he decides to join them anyway
— Francisco joined the gang to provide for his family against his mothers wishes
— the food he gives his family is stolen from other houses
— his brother enjoys the dark more than the light
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Examples of Irony in Game of Thrones:
– Ned Stark was the most honorable man in the kingdom. He is executed for treason.
– Robb Stark has no thoughts of being a king, and has not gone to war to become one. His banner men spontaneously name him King in the North.
– Arya Stark always wanted to be treated like a boy and do male activities. To escape King’s Landing, she must pose as a boy against her will.
– Sansa Stark wanted to be a Queen and live in a royal court. Now she is a hostage of the King she wanted to marry, and suffers for it.
– Bran Stark always wanted to climb. Now he has to learn to live without use of his legs.
– Drogo is the greatest fighter of the Dothraki. He dies of an infected cut after easily defeating and killing the man who gives him the cut.
– When Drogo dies, Danaerys decides that no price would be too high to bring him back to life. The price she pays is too high: death of her son.
– The “final” death of Drogo, who Danaerys wanted alive but had to “kill”, results in her proving that she is a true Targeryon who can’t burn, and also gaining three dragons.
– Ser Jorah lives in exile for shaming his family with stupid criminal activities. Now he is Danaerys’ wisest advisor and most honorable servant. (I’m not sure this is real irony…)
– Joffrey, who is the bastard of another man, and has no claim to the throne, has become King. Gendry is a true (albeit bastard) son of King Robert, but must run like a criminal and hide his identity.
– Jamie Lannister, sworn to protect the king, assassinates the mad king to save the kingdom. Now he is branded, “Kingslayer” in dishonor.
– Tyrion gets no respect from anyone but Jamie. Now he is acting Hand of the King and everyone must do as he says.
– Tyrion, a nobleman, falls in love with a whore.
– The death of a mad king resulted in the kingdom going into civil war, eventually won by the man (Robert Baratheon) whose “son” (Joffrey), clearly a mad man, becomes king.
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Assignment 2
Subject: Marcus Wolf’s Creating Irony!
This lesson taught me the importance of paying attention to irony. In my example show, irony is everywhere and creates a great deal of interest. It can do a lot of things, like adding to empathy for characters and adding elements to the story.
Character Irony:
– Harold Godwinson is a good son and a good Earl. He does everything right and is honorable. For this he is ignored by his father. His brother Sweyn gets all the attention, protection and help, no matter what he does, which angers and frustrates Harold to no end. Perhaps Harold tries to come up with a clever and subtle way to get rid of Sweyn, but murder is not out of the question.
– Sweyn Godwinson will do anything to advance his own agenda including lies, rape and murder. In the end, the only thing he can do is become penitent, then dies before he can truly make amends. In Sweyn’s criminal behavior, there might be irony, if in fact, he perpetrates his criminal behavior for valid reasons of which the other characters are not aware. Perhaps his father was actually King Cnut, as Sweyn claims and that is the family’s dirty secret. Perhaps he didn’t rape the Abbess of Leominster but they were actually in love and conspiring to steal the church’s lands together. Perhaps he didn’t murder his cousin Earl Beorn in cold blood, but had good reason to do it (still working on what that could be).
– Perhaps Sweyn, the evil son, has made his pilgrimage and is now truly penitent. While near Constantinople, he is murdered by assassins paid by Harold, the good son. Perhaps prior to his death, he finds proof that he is actually son of King Cnut and not Godwin. His dilemma will be to decide what to do with this information now that he is penitent.
– Godwin, who has been extremely loyal to every prince and king (five of them including Edward) he has served, turns on King Edward.
– William of Normandy, a somewhat pious man, resorts to extremely unchristian atrocity to end a prolonged siege. Perhaps he is haunted by this action to the extent that he can’t find a way to confess and gain absolution. Yet he desperately needs forgiveness to remove this stain on his reputation.
– King Edward considers Count Baldwin V of Flanders an enemy. William, whose grandfather and father sheltered Edward during his exile, marries Baldwin’s daughter, Matilda.
– Robert of Jumieges is a loyal advisor and faithful confidante to King Edward. When he is promoted to Archbishop of Canterbury (the highest ecclesiastical rank in England), he is influenced heavily by his subsequent meeting with Pope Leo IX, empowered, but not to become more pious, but to try to become more powerful and independent of King Edward.
Situational Irony:
– During the English crisis of 1051, all parties involved are seeking to enhance their own power and standing. But neither Edward nor Godwin is actually willing to start a civil war. In this situation, from our knowledge of Edward and Godwin thus far, we expect Edward to back down. But he stands firm. We expect Godwin to not only stand firm, but to fight, if necessary. Instead, he goes into exile.
– Although married for several years, King Edward and Queen Edith have no children. There is probably a way to work irony into this situation, I’m working on that.
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Diana’s Creating Irony!
What I learned: Irony adds
another layer to the story.Assignment 1
Watch the next episode of your Example Show and notice where irony shows up in this show — both in this episode and throughout the episodes you’ve already seen.
Tell us the irony you have already discovered in the Example Show.
Mr. Robot:
Elliot: network security engineer by day, hacker by night; name of Elliot’s employer (Allsafe); employer thinks Elliot is a hero, but Elliot just gave hackers a way into his network; Elliot fought to save Shayla (who was already dead); Tyrell a shoe-in for CTO/gets passed up for promotion; Shayla was killed because of Elliot; boss tells Elliot to find someone he can be his honest self with, a hacker/dishonest person; tells his boss it’s good advice even though he means the opposite; execs talking about the dirty deeds similar to what Tyrell is doing in front of Tyrell; Angela has to do something dangerous to get her dad out of danger; Elliot decides to get back into hacking; his dog eats his chip; CTO of Evil Corp is presented as someone who will change the company for the good; man sleeping his way to the top. Tyrell lures someone to the roof under the guise of sex so he can kill her. Elliot shows up at therapy after giving the therapist the impression he wasn’t coming back. He lets her know he’s hacking her and monitoring her life. And that she isn’t a good therapist. Confesses that he hacks everyone. Elliot and therapist are more alike than they appear on the surface.
Assignment 2
Look back through your previous assignments and find at least 20 different situations or character components that you could go opposite to create irony. With each, brainstorm ways it could go opposite.
1. Husband devoted to wife: Husband hates wife just as much as she hates him
2. Wife has kid to delay prison sentencing: Husband sells kid while she is in prison
3. Wife cheating on husband: Husband also cheating on wife
4. Wife a career criminal: Husband an FBI agent
5. Wife married to five other men: Husband married to four other women
6. Wife has ties to the NJ Mafia: Husband working a sting to bring down her cousins
7. Mother in law curses son-in-law: Mother-in-law, a devout Catholic placing curses on others
8. Mother-in-law a career criminal: Married to a US Marshall
9. Wife convicted of forgery: Husband set her up
10. Wife wants to be in the Mafia. Mafia puts a hit on her because she screwed up a job her cousin let her do.
11. Wife asks for child support. Husband demands paternity test, which proves they aren’t his.
12. Wife wants husband to divorce her so she can get alimony. Husband takes her to court for adultery.
13. Husband framed by wife for same crime she was imprisoned for.
14. Husband hunts down wife while kid hunts him down while US Marshalls hunt down kid.
15. Gullible husband: Conniving wife
16. Mother-in-law sweet on the outside, bitter on the inside.
17. Psychopath marries shrink.
18. Psychopath pretends to be a shrink.
19. Psycho wife sets up a psychotherapy practice.
20. Wife has five aliases and is plotting against husband. Husband sets up a sting to take her down.
21. Wife catches wind of sting and sets up husband for her own crime.
Select the ones that work well for the show and share the character and situational irony ideas with us.
1. Wife a career criminal: Husband an FBI agent
2. Wife has ties to the NJ Mafia: Husband working a sting to bring down her mafia cousins
3. Mother-in-law a career criminal: Son-in-law an FBI agent
4. Wife convicted of forgery: Husband set her up
5. Husband framed by wife years later for same crime she was imprisoned for.
6. Husband hunts down wife when he gets out of prison while kid hunts down father while US Marshalls hunt down kid who busted out of prison.
7. Gullible husband: Conniving wife
8. Mother-in-law sweet on the outside, bitter on the inside.
9. Psycho wife sets up a psychotherapy practice to commit insurance fraud.
10. Wife is plotting against husband to set him up for another prison sentence. Husband sets up a sting to take her down and gets accused of another crime she committed.
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Lesson 11. Discovering Irony
I’ve learned that Irony is a provocative way to “show” who a person/character/world is.
John
Presents / Eventually shows
Meek – Ruthless
Compassionate – Greedy
Naive – calculating
Self-confident – Hides or unsure of true self
Fisherman – Hates eating fish
High school dropout – High IQ
Lives in wealthy suburb – is poor
Criticizes wealth – wants money and power
Cares for his mom – does not care about his mom
Value / Need
Working class – Wealth
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ANNE JAMES
Lesson 11 – Creating Irony
What I learned doing this assignment…
This assignment reminded me how much I love the element of irony in storytelling! Relish those types of contradictions.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
The Young Pope
Examples of irony in the show:
Lenny becomes a truly compassionate pope when he loses all of the people he was trying to control and keep close to him.
Lenny is called “Holy Father” constantly, even though he will never be an actual father.
Lenny is gorgeous and sexy, but off limits and incapable of truly loving another human being.
Dussolier is put in charge of vetting new priests and abolishing any candidates who are gay, but he is involved in gay and straight sexual relationships back at his parish in Honduras.
Voiello love of Sister Mary fills his heart far more than God ever has.
Sister Mary, Lenny and Dussolier’s “ma”, is an orphan too.
ASSIGNMENT 2: Vestal Virgins – Examples of irony
Livia:
• Although publicly viewed as the embodiment of Vestal chastity as Vestalis Maxima, she became pregnant and miscarried.
Nerilla
• In the chaos surrounding Livia’s death, Nerilla, a slacker Vestal restless with the life that has been chosen for her, is selected to be the next Vestalis Maxima, the new face of the brand. In the aftermath of this scandal, she must somehow swiftly restore public and political faith in the Vestals.
• Publicly, she must denounce Livia’s pregnancy and call for the damnatio memoria, the purge of any remnant of Livia’s memory. Privately, she is devastated and grief stricken. She and Livia had been romantically involved, a secret relationship that was considered taboo.
• Nerilla restores public and political faith in the Vestals, even as she struggles to control the other Vestals and secure their loyalty.
• In her first act as Vestalis Maxima, Nerilla publicly blessed the endeavors of Emperor Severus, his sons and the troops as they headed out to campaign in Roman Briton. Nerilla, long doubting her magical abilities, faked the whole thing.
• It is believed that Nerilla’s blessing ensured the peace accord with Caledonia in Roman Briton. She is celebrated. But then word comes that Emperor Severus has died. She’s convinced this is the gods punishment for her faked “blessing” at the onset.
• Initially a reluctant, awkward and poorly skilled Vestal Maxima, Nerilla toes on to become one of the most powerful women in Rome.
Silvius
• Livia had been a loyal supporter of Silvius in his early months as the new Pontifex Maximus. He was smitten with her. Under intense political pressure from his senator father, he denies her a trial and calls for her to be immediately buried alive.
• Silvius confronts Nerilla about her relationship with Livia. He threatens to expose her. But she has the favor and protection of the emperor. Given the unpredictability of Emperor Caracalla, this could be suicide for him.
• Silvius brazenly calls for her to be secretly beaten instead. He throws the first strikes. But Nerilla makes not a sound and he cannot continue. He runs out of the room and has one of the guards complete the beating.
Caracalla
• Upon his return, Emperor Caracalla is convinced it was Nerilla’s blessing that ensured his father’s death and his ascension to power. He believes she has secured the gods favor for him and insists she continue to bless all of his endeavors.
• Publicly, Nerilla becomes the favorite of the emperor and graciously plays the role. Privately, she’s terrified, but she uses her new access to work political back channels to secure help with the illusion of her “blessings”.
• Is a feared and volatile leader. Dismissive of women. Has banished his wife to an island in the Mediterranean. Nerilla is the only woman he trusts and respects.
• Doubles down on his father’s empowering of the military and considers himself a man of the solidiers. But he refuses to pay the military the previous emperor Commodus’ outstanding donativum (gift to the military upon succession to the thrown).
• Caracalla, a long feared and terrifying leader, is killed while taking a leak on the side of the road by a disgruntled soldier who had been promised a promotion.
Empress Julia Domna
• As empress alongside Emperor Severus, Julia Domna viewed the Vestals as competition for the love of the Roman people. Now, a widow, she needs the Vestals for protection.
• Upon their return from Caledonia, Julia Domna, Caracalla’s mother and the former empress, gathers her two highly competitive sons and co-emperors, Geta and Caracalla, together to broker a motherly peace between the two of them. Caracalla has his Praetorian security detail stab Geta. Geta falls into his mother’s arms and dies.
• Reeling from the murder of her beloved son, Geta, she conspires with Nerilla to overthrow her son, while publicly appearing to be in support of him.
• She jubilantly tosses coins to the plebians to curry their favor and notices her gentle Geta’s face has been erase on the coins in an act of damnatio mermoria enacted by Caracalla.
• With Caracalla regularly out in the encampments partying with the Roman army and frequently neglecting his duties as emperor, Julia begins to handle many important state documents and treaties. She passes on top secret information on to Nerilla to help her stage her “miracles” and “blessings”.
Aeliana
• The lovely, popular Vestal yearning to be the next Vestalis Maximus, is not a virgin.
• Only Silvius knows this.
Laurus
• The quiet, plain, chaste forgotten Vestal forth in line, discovers her younger brother, Traeton, is a member of Emperor Caracalla’s Praetorian Guard. She exploits this access and loyalty to gain footing, influence and eventually power.
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Lesson 11, Assignment 1
What I learned in doing this assignment is that I really enjoy working on irony more than anything. It’s always something I look for when I watch a show. I feel like it’s probably one of the most important elements in putting a show together.
Mr. Robot
Elliot longs for personal connection but hates to be touched.
Wellick walks into Fsociety headquarters. It’s an ironic visual of a corporate big wig entering the anarchists’ lair.
Angela works now for Evil Corp. She had brought a lawsuit against Evil Corp for causing the death of her mother, and now she is working for it.
Elliot, in helping Vera bust out of prison, releases all the prisoners in the jail. Elliot’s a vigilante who exposes criminals for their behavior, especially the coffee shop owner whom he helped put away in the beginning of the pilot.
Assignment 2
Jill will work for Charlie, while indirectly, even though she hates him and never saw herself working for him.
Jill believes it is Charlie who killed her parents but really it’s Jimmy – the person she is most intimate with and closest to.
Jimmy and Jill talk about getting out of the “life” early in the season. As the season goes on, it is Jill who would rather stay in the life than Jimmy- who was against it from the start.
Jill could end up an informer like her mother. Her mother was an informer against her ex. Jill is presented with the opportunity to inform on her ex as well- Jimmy.
No one would realize that Jimmy – while putting on a tough outer exterior – is his own worst enemy. He is hardest on himself due to his guilt and for not measuring up to his own expectations.
Jill is a feminist symbol in the series. She breaks the gender barrier and does things the guys do. Yet she loves a man that will not allow her to earn money for herself and the crew.
Nines teaches Jill how to surveil. Yet Jill uses what Nines teaches her to surveil him and turn him in.
For someone who wasn’t allowed to earn money, Jill ends up making more money than most of the guys, which impresses the bosses.
Jimmy and Charlie come to an agreement to end the war. Jimmy “sells” Jill to Charlie as part of the deal, to work for Charlie. Jill’s mother, as a prostitute was “sold” many times by her lover, Gio.
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Assignment 1 lesson 11
Example TV Show: INVENTING ANNA
In EP. 7
How the irony shows up
Anna, an heiress in business with lots of VIPs, steals a bag of chips on the seat of a train because she is starving.
Rachel wants to believe Anna is her friend and she is a good person but needs her money back
and Rachel reports to the prosecutor that Anna is a con woman.
In the whole series:
Anna is a poor con artist but an excellent business woman.
Anna is a bad person that everyone loves!
Anna works hard at things she blows up afterwards. (Ex: getting on that yacht was a performance but she blows it all by overstaying). (Ex: using Nora’s credit card just when Nora was supporting her).
Rachel
She is a friend with a plan = to use Anna for her own career.
Todd
He is a family man who choses to miss his family holidays in order to stay on Anna’s case.
Vivian
She is expecting a baby / she is expecting a story that will save her future.
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Subject line: Dave’s Creating Irony!
“What I learned doing this assignment is pretty much every idea, plot point, character trait and character relationship can be a source of enough irony to keep a show going for an infinite number of seasons.
Blank Slate
Character ironies
Joshua and Salva need each other to get back to the baseline reality, but Salva is dead in the baseline, can’t go back, and blames her death on Joshua.
Salva is a physics professor, but not thinking outside the box keeps limiting her ability to figure out how she can solve her problem of getting back to the baseline without being dead.
Joshua loves his wife and family, but in some realities, they don’t love him.
Trying to accomplish something in an AR could lead to Joshua putting Henna or one or both kids in peril in that reality.
Joshua has won a Pulitzer in an AR, but became arrogant, and his career still took a downturn.
Salva was recognized for her work on The Experiment in an AR, but that also got her pursued (of killed) by US or foreign agents or mobsters.
In an AR, a colleague who cheated Joshua out of the Pulitzer wants to make up for it and get Joshua recognized—but in the situation, Joshua wants to maintain a very low profile. The acclaim puts him—and maybe his family—in peril in the AR.
Joshua visits an AR in which everything is better than in the baseline, so he tries to figure out how to stay there—until Salva (or one of the Agents) comes from yet another alternative reality with information that suggests the one Joshua wants to stay probably will go from great to awful very quickly.
Joshua visits an AR that he thinks is the baseline—but then he notices little changes that burst his bubble.
Situational ironies
Salva wants to kill Joshua, but in some realities, Joshua has left his wife for Salva.
Changing the baseline to make it more like another reality can affect more than just one thing in the baseline. (Killing the president so that the VP takes over and can steer the baseline toward an outcome in another reality creates new problems in the baseline.)
When Joshua and Salva first discover how to control which alternate realities they switch to, they end up in realities in which The Experiment has lead to the devastation of society.
In other realities, it looks as though The Experiment made the world a much better place, but that’s only what it looks like on the surface.
In an AR, Salva lives and Joshua dies—but information exists in that reality that Joshua needs to be able to return to the baseline.
Working with one Agent gets Joshua something he needs in one reality, but then, in the next reality he visits, his life is in danger because he knows that information.
In one AR, China has gotten the secret of The Experiment and the US is a poor, ravaged country in upheaval.
Something Joshua has known all along is he key to getting back to the baseline.
In one AR, Joshua is in prison for Salva’s death—but someone in the same cellblock has information he needs to get back to the baseline.
Joshua and Salva visit an AR in which The Experiment is to be run in less than an hour, but Salva recognizes that it’s no less dangerous than when it was run in the baseline.
In every AR, Joshua’s trying to figure out how to fit in with the new (Blank Slate) reality gets him in trouble—either serious or comic.
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Assignment 2 lesson 11
Marie’s Creating Irony
What I learned was to look at every opportunity to brainstorm ideas, plot, and characters’ opposites. It has opened up my story. Another breakthrough!
IRONY IN THE PLOT
The beautiful school of angels is corrupted day by day with fallen angels who embody students one after the other.
The school game between two angel teams turns out to be a real battle field between guardian angels and fallen angels.
The remparts where angels guard the world of angels are actually guarded by embodied fallen angels.
The school of angels teaches a non violent approach (fighting is a disgrace, a failure) but guardian angels have to fight.
Charlie the fallen angel dies to save Skyler, his enemy.
Skyler’s failures are Charlie’s doing.
The boy on earth hanting Skyler’s memories is himself.
CHARACTERS
The strong Skyler loses his strength when he cuts himself.
The smart Skyler cannot read.
Dominic, the maintenance man, is an angel who cannot fly.
Charlie is a healer but he is always sick
The good friend Charlie, when embodied by a fallen angel, is a monster.
Merrill, a controlled student, becomes wild when she smells Marijuana or cocaïn on earth.
Merrill, the perfect student who is doing everything by the book, breaks the rules to help Skyler.
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Mark Lederkramer Binge Worthy TV Module 1 Lesson 11 Discovering Irony Assignments 1 and 2
What I learned doing this assignment is that Irony both in Plot and Characters will keep the story moving forward and make for realistic interactions between the characters and the rest of the world
Assignment 1
Mr. Robot
Plot Irony
1) Elliot hacks and frames Vera (Shayla’s drug dealer), to protect Shayla but it ends up leading to Vera murdering Shayla
2) Elliot is sent to stop the hack by All Safe but ends up leaving a back door for F Society
3) Angela is a loyal employee at All Safe but she ends up causing the hack at All Safe
4) Tyrell starts out trying to become the CTO at E Corp and ends up helping Elliot to bring E Corp down via the hack
5) Tyrell was supposed to seduce and blackmail his adversary’s wife but ends up strangling her to death
6) Angela hates E Corp because they killed her mother and is suing them but she goes to work for them
7) Elliot doesn’t trust Tyrell but he agrees to work with him
8) Darlene and F Society hack E Corp and blackmail them for 5.9 million dollars in cash only to have the E Corp CTO put on an F Society mask and burn the money
Character Irony
1) Mr. Robot starts off as an loud mouth bossy ally but he turns out to be Elliot’s dead father
2) Tyrell starts off as an adversary but then becomes Elliot’s partner in crime
3) Angela hates E-Corp but goes to work for them.
4) Angela hates Terry Colby but ends up saving him from going to jail
5) Mr. Robot turns out to just be a delusion of Elliot’s dead father
6) Darlene is a pushy ally but turns out to be Elliot’s real live sister
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Assignment 2
My Show
Irony in the Plot
1) Micky has sworn his whole life to never get involved with the Mafia and now after thinking he was going to work for the Big 3 crew he finds out they have partnered with the real Mafia
2) Stuey goes voluntarily to see Jackie Torrio and tries to give him $50,000 as a tribute for the last trip from Columbia, even though he had no investment I it. Stuey wanted the Torrio Crew to be their friends and allies. Jackie refuses the cash and says that instead he wants to be partners in the new trip. Stuey knows that he can’t say no to Jackie. People who say no to Jackie have a tendency of ending up in trash bags in small pieces
3) Matty becomes partners with Stuey and Tony for protection after he is ripped off and beaten in a break in at his apartment. Truth is that it was Stuey and Tony who robbed and beat him. This was the final step in Stuey’s plan to get Matty to become their partner
4) Micky realizes quickly that his responsibilities for the crew are much scarier than he thought. Starting with creating two alternate identities complete with Drivers Licenses, birth certificates, and Social Security cards.
5) Tony had been friends with Matty since public school, and yet he helps Stuey scam Matty into becoming their partner by robbing and beating him in a staged rip off.
6) Stuey made the plan to rip off Matty and then he gets ripped off by another smuggler.
7) Howie sells over 200 kilos of Lebanese hashish that he was able to get fronted by a local dealer because they had been so damaged in an accident that they seemed unsellable. Howie spent hours and hours cleaning and trimming the bad parts of the Hash. He makes $150,000 in profit for Micky and himself to split. Then Micky finds out that the Hash was actually owned by the crew. This makes him really angry because Stuey promised him first access to all product as a way for Micky to make money on top of his salary. Howie and he did all the work and we would have made more than twice as much if Stuey had kept his word.
Character Irony
1) Stuey, Matty, and Tony hired Micky for his brains but none of them listen to him
2. Micky never really liked or trusted Stuey but now he is at his beck and call
3. Tony has always been best friends with Stuey but he is starting to resent him and his control of the crew.
4) Tony went along with Stuey’s plan to rip off Matty and it made him and Stuey wealthy. Tony has a lot of guilt about it so he tends to avoid hanging out with just Matty.
5) Stuey, Tony, and Jackie expect Micky to keep Matty on the straight and narrow but the truth is that Micky is having less and less influence on Matty
6) Howie is getting resentful of Micky because he feels he is doing all the work of bringing in money for ‘Wheels and Deals”
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