BNW11 - Dramatic Irony

"Laughter broke out, enormous, almost hysterical, peal after peal, as though it would never stop. My father-and it was the Director! My father! Oh Ford, oh Ford! That was really too good." (Brave New World, pg. 151) Who would've though the Director had a child! Obviously not the people at the Hatchery. While they laugh because of its "impossible" implications, the truth is out. The director might realize this - at least the readers know the truth. Those poor spectators. What a shock they'll receive when they see that it's true. Dramatic irony is especially effective in this backwards society. Once the society fully realizes what has occurred - pandemonium. Huxley does a great job of dramatizing the situation. It helped create a better, more intense feel in the book.