Dramatic Irony In The Truman Show

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The quote choose from the Truman Show that is going to be in this is the quote by socrates “the unexamined life is not worth living” after looking the quote over, what socrates is trying to say is that living in a world that is normal to the person but without knowing their surroundings is not a world living in. to support the answer in The Truman Show a use dramatic irony is use from the beginning of the movie where the audience knows Truman is on tv but what Truman did not know is that he is on tv and doesn't know it explains why their so many cameras where Truman lives and how everybody can see him. Another example was dramatic irony where Christoph speaks to Marlon in a small headphone and script lines to say to Truman and what comes out

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