Is it ironic that dramas use dramatic irony?

That title.  See what I did there?

Anyways.  I'm answering question 12, but I'm not going to talk about Oedipus Rex, because that is not what we read (unless I did something wrong).

"I will question Cassio of Bianca, a housewife that by selling her desires buys herself bread and clothes" IV.i.91-93.

After several times of missing this line and reading the discussion between Cassio and Iago, I finally saw that they were actually talking about Bianca, unbeknownst (first time I've used that word) to Othello.  It made me laugh.  This dramatic irony where only the reader, Iago, and to an extent, Cassio, knew who they were chatting about is what makes me love Iago.  Had dramatic irony never been used in this story, then the reader would just be like Othello trying to piece together why Desdemona was cheating on Othello instead of asking why Iago was betraying... everyone.

My dog just licked my Lit book.

The dramatic irony also created much suspense for me.  While people (not going to name names, but Grace Weisenbach in particular) seem to have this irrational hatred of Iago because he seemed to have no clear cut reason for the schemes (that will be my third blog post), I really thought I connected the most with Iago thanks to these dramatic ironies.  Not only did he basically run the story, but he even let me know what was going on when I got unbelievably confused.  The suspense that people would figure out his plan that seemed so obvious to me almost drove me insane.  I knew that basically everyone died, but I was still always scared that someone would piece everything together.

Not only did the dramatic irony help me to understand the story, but it also made me a proud member of team Iago.

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