So one way to make your characters more human is to show them struggling with internal conflict. That doesn’t need to involve lots of long, drawn-out scenes of your character going through Hamlet-like internal monologues of indecision … but it does need to be reflected in the story. Six...
Irony can be humorous or it can be tragic. For example, it is a tragic irony that Hamlet, thinking his father is hiding behind the curtain runs his sword through him, only to learn that it is the father of the woman he was about to marry. Thus, finally finding the courage to act, ...