Dramatic Irony affairs are the tragic reverse of what the participants expected
During the scene where Beowulf finally defeats grendal, his mother appears, being motivated by her son's gruesome and untimely death she seeks out to destroy beowulf. When the time comes to fight she ends up having the upper hand since the fight takes place in her home, but beowulf sticks it out and ends up killing her. The dramatic irony in this is that the audience was not expecting another monster to appear after just having defeated grendal. The following is an example of dramatic irony in modern times.
During the scene where Beowulf finally defeats grendal, his mother appears, being motivated by her son's gruesome and untimely death she seeks out to destroy beowulf. When the time comes to fight she ends up having the upper hand since the fight takes place in her home, but beowulf sticks it out and ends up killing her. The dramatic irony in this is that the audience was not expecting another monster to appear after just having defeated grendal. The following is an example of dramatic irony in modern times.