Comparison:
A dramatists often creates a gap between what the audience knows and what the characters know. With reference to at least two plays, discuss how and to what effect dramatists have used this technique.
Both Ibsen and Sophocles used this technique to create a bigger impact when a character finds out about the secret who is affected by it. For instance, both Hjalmar and Oedipus find out about a secret that has not been told to them and it ruins their perfect little world that they have. The people around them get affected by how they react to the truth, for instance Hedvig is rejected because Hjalmar knows that he isn't the real father. And in Oedipus, when Oedipus finds out that he killed his father, and that he has slept with his mother and that his mom tried killing him, he get really upset and Jocasta kills herslef and Oedipus stabs his eyes out so he wouldn't be able to see what he has done. In both plays the audience knows the secret and it creates a sympathetic feeling for the characters who have been effected by the reactions of others.
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