Plays are watched - not read.

"I made the last payment on the house today.  Today, dear.  And there'll be nobody home.  We're free and clear.  We're free.  We're free... We're free..." (pg 1630).

While I still don't see why every play has to have random background music tell me what the mood of the characters, the flute seems to be a common sound in this play.  I hesitate to say that it "obviously" shows the true sadness behind what Linda was telling he who turned her into a widow.

So the question asked about the irony in the requiem and I must return to bullet points for this part of my post.

• My above post points out the new freedom within the two; however, she makes it seem as though they are free in the same ways.  You see, Willy was free from himself, his pride and his stress, but Linda was not.  Linda was free from her worries about Willy and the financial burden that the family was under.  Granted, I am not truly sure whether Linda would rather have kept Willy around...
• The other is a dramatic irony.  Willy bragged multiple times about how when he had a funeral, people from all over New England would be coming to it because of how "well-liked" he is.  Not to copy an adjective from Bryan's blog, but "cocky" seemed like nice word choice (upside down chocolate cake, to steal Mrs. Sander's phrases).  Lucky Poor Willy was not even around to see how many few people came to his funeral.

The Requiem was a nice addition to the play to expound on Willy's tragic flaw.

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.

Here is a hierarchy of my favorite characters.

Ma'am, I thinkest you droppest your napkin thingy...

 

"Your napkin (handkerchief) is too little, (He puts the handkerchief from him, and it drops.)  Let it alone.  Come, I'll go in with you" III.iii.288-290.

"Lend me thy handkerchief" / "Here, my lord." / "That which I gave you." / "I have it not about me." / "Not?" / "No indeed, my lord." / "That's a fault." III.iv.46-49.

Alright Othello, this, right here.  You see this?  This is why I am a proud member of Team Iago!  You are bashing your wife for losing the "napkin" that you gave her despite the fact that you were there when it happened!  Shame hypocrite is not a literary device.  I think that this whole Act would be a good use of dramatic irony though. If there is only one thing that I like about Shakespeare writings, it would have to be the fact that he blatantly tells the reader what is about to happen and why people are doing what they do.

Back to my hatred of Othello, this is kind of like that Bumblebee story in my mind.  It's really annoying that we had Bumblebee who never did anything, but the narrator was just as guilty in his never making him do anything.  Othello is just a piece in Iago's game of Othello.

Not to sound racist, but Othello is that black piece in the middle of Iago's complete annihilation of Othello's reputation.  Ironically enough, Iago has now had Othello wreck Cassio's reputation too.  This whole dramatic irony situation really makes me get annoyed with Othello when I read because I just watch Iago be a genius, but I can't help but notice how everyone is turning away from each other.  Literally just talking about the situation would be enough to figure out all of these lies, but I suppose this is a story and people just aren't as smart as me Iago.

I just "Loled" when I realized that I used dramatic irony to describe a drama.