Did you know Michael Jackson and Sting were considered to play Jerith in the 1986 film, Labyrinth? Jim Henson uses irony as a literary device to create excitement, surprise, and suspense. In the movie, Labyrinth the types of irony used are verbal, dramatic, and situational. As a result, Jim Henson’s story was more interesting. To begin, verbal irony is when a character says the opposite of what he or she means. For example, in Labyrinth, the father tells the stepmother, he will go talk to Sarah, but he tells Sarah what time him and his wife will be home from their date. Another example of verbal irony, is when Hoggles tells Jerith, that he will take Sarah back to the beginning of the Labyrinth, but in reality he is helping Sarah complete the Labyrinth. The last example of verbal irony, used in the Labyrinth is when one of the goblins makes a copy of Sarah’s room, and says “All you’ve ever wanted is here.” , and she responds saying “It’s all trash”, because to Sarah it really is just trash. To further explain, dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the character doesn’t. In the beginning of the Labyrinth, a worm tells Sarah that the right way is going to the left, then he says he is just kidding, and she goes the other way, and once she leaves he says “You should’ve kept …show more content…
The first example, of situational irony used in the Labyrinth is when Sarah says that the Labyrinth “Isn’t fair”, because the audience didn’t expect the Labyrinth to be unfair. To further educate, Jerith tells Hoggles, not to lose his head, and Hoggles says he isn’t going to lose his head anytime soon. Sarah goes into a jungle, where these birds are losing their heads, and Hoggles later saves Sarah from the birds. The last example of situational irony, used in the Labyrinth is when the audience thinks the Labyrinth is real, but is it