In the short story "The Pardoners Tale" by Chaucer, there were three men who were filled with immorality, and thrived on cursing, drinking and gambling. They were told of a man by the name of Death who was terrorizing the countryside and murdering great amounts of people. When the gamblers heard of this they promised to end this mans terror and kill him. They went searching and in their journey they came upon a great amount of gold. At that point they manufactured a plan so that they could keep the money without anyone noticing that they had come upon such a great wealth.

A third and final story is "The Mask of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe. In thei story the Red Death is killing millions in Europe and many are secluding themselves in their homes in hopes that the Red Death will not find them. So one man by the name of Prince Prospero along with some others lock themselves in his castle. They are killed by the death even though there is no way of anything getting to them. In this story the reader thinks that there is no way Prospero will die but yet he does and no one knows why.

All three of these stories show Irony in different ways. Although they are in different forms the Irony still draws the interest of the reader.

The second short story "Appointment in Samarra" by Somerset Maugham was a very brief work of literature but it still relayed a sense of irony. In the story, a man is sent to Baghdad to get food and supplies for the merchant he worked for. When the man returned he was in a very scared state. He said that h

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