Irony

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Irony

Irony is an implied disagreement within the use of words to what is said and what is meant, conveying a meaning which is hardly caught by the person on the other end of it. Irony is pretty much a part of my character. I tend to use the Sarcasm a whole lot, usually unintentionally it's a habit. I'd say I have good humor, some agree. Others might either take it offensively or look at me as obnoxious, but that's just me. Ironic things happen in everyday life, I tend to notice it a lot. Throughout High School they make us aware of irony, teaching it through perhaps books or real life lessons.

I've experienced lots of Irony whether it was from my own sarcasm or observing it around me, it's part of life. I've noticed that there's a great deal of irony when it comes to Walt Disney stories. Whether it's Donald Duck not wearing any pants when instead he wears a hat or a shirt. I mean the "he's a duck" excuse makes no sense because then again what's the deal with him wearing a towel when he comes out of the shower. Then the Goofy and Pluto argument, both of them are dogs yet goofy gets to talk, isn't a pet, and walks on two feet. I remember reading something on the Goofy and Pluto argument, according to the people over at Caltech. They figured that they are in fact brothers. Goofy sold Pluto into slavery in exchange for the power of human speech. Evidently Goofy was robbed too, given the unsatisfactory results, the speech impediment and the clumsy attitude and posture. I find that highly ironic, a bit funny too.

In Edwin Arlington Robinson's Poem "Richard Cory" Irony is dealt with a sort of mysterious shocking ending. Richard Cory was a wealthy, imperially slim, clean favored gentleman. Schooled in every grace glittered when he walked, human when he talked and quietly arrayed. All but good qualities and more to add, yet the man commits suicide which stands to be a mysterious outcome of the story. Cory was a gentleman meaning to a much higher class than simply a man. He was much like a king yet he went downtown, guessing this would indicate to the area of the working class. "human when he talked, But still fluttered pulses when he said "Good-morning"". Meaning he didn't think highly of himself, yet words as simple as those still had an effect on people. In the reading the speaker is a bit obsessed with Richard Cory, almost as if to give the reader the feel of a primary witness to Cory. Thus giving The reader the wishful thinking to wanna be Richard Cory themselves. The speaker is but one of those who looked up to Cory, a common folk. Also wanting to be in his place, showing signs of envy yet being admirable. Richard Cory was rich, in exaggeration "- Yes, richer than a king -". The speaker continues, "so on we worked" statement showing that he is of the working class, as to time passes by "waited for the light". "went without the meat, and cursed the bread;". Bread was easily obtained with surplus, thus the speaker cursing it. Yet meat was lacked, and so he and the others of such lower class went without. The Poem comes to questioning with the last two lines holding the shocking puzzling ending. "And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head." At the moment you read it and it flows off your tongue with the Rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet. The question deep in mind seems to surface, Did I miss something? A bit lost standing there wondering how can someone that has it so good, the man who has and was everything that these working common folk wanted to be, take his own life. I guess it goes to show appearances are deceiving, can't judge a bad book by its good cover.

The take on Irony takes a creepy turn In this one short story called "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs. It's about a magical monkey's paw dried to a mummy that grants wishes. According to the book a holy man cast a spell upon the paw in order to prove his point about how fate ruled people's lives. The old fakir or "holy man" put a spell on the monkey's paw so that three separate men could each have three wishes. The paw stumbles upon this one family The White's, being given to them by a Sergeant major that has had enough troubles from it. According to the story the Sergeant Major was one of the three men with the chance to get his three wishes. "The First man had his three wishes, yes," said the Sergeant. "I dont know what the first two were, but the third was for death. That's how I got the Paw." From the sergeant major losing a friend to him making wishes himself. The sergeant explains the risk of how the paw does indeed grant the wish, yet it brings out the most ironic mishap. He ended up leaving it at the White's family home and warns them to just get rid of it due to its unlikely consequences. The ironic thing about the short story is that within the wishes of the White's, there are indeed granted yet there chased with an unfortunate tail. Mr. White is at first convinced to wish for a sensible wish of 200 pounds. The following day they're struck with news about their son's death, bringing them 200 pounds as compensation. Ironic, yet what a mishap, the money they had wished for was rewarded as compensation for their son's death. In their second wish Mrs. White decides to Wish for her son to back to life. When instead they get a mutilated, walking, door knocking zombie back from the dead. Thus leading Mr. White to Wish his son gone, to return back to his grave. "The knocking ceased suddenly, although the echoes of it were still in the house. He heard the chair drawn back and the door opened. A cold wind rushed up the staircase, and a long, loud wail of disapointment and misery from his wife gave him courage to run down to her side, and then to the gate beyond. The streetlamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet deserted road." Ironic the fancy unfortunate outcomes of the monkey's paw, be careful what we wish for, or wish nothing at all.

The Ironic twist to the article "The House that Slaves Built". In Present day The White House is the residential stay of our nation's first black President. President Barack Obama and his immediate family. Though throughout history The White House has been known as an unfriendly stop for African Americans. According to notes by author John Stauffer "The racial history of the White House is a wonderful symbol of the racial history of the nation as a whole,". The accomplishment of an African American in the position of the executive branch in our nation, is a Powerful symbol of change in the nation as a whole. "The White house was built by crews of black laborers, both slave and free." It is true that such a stay was not welcoming to blacks, but in the world of today about 200 years later, President Barack Obama makes the White House his home. I'm Proud to live in this nation. To know that such a thing as racial tension as whole in our nation decreases to a much lower percentage. Ironic how things turn out to be in the end.

Highly Ironic image here, of two men on the bus interacting. It seems as though the bigger repulsive man asked the other man what he was reading. The thing is the name of the book is "What's It to You". So the sort of bully bigger man seems to be getting upset having to keep asking him and getting that reply. The bigger man took it as a sense of disrespect seeing as though he couldn't read, and so he thought the man reading was being a wise guy. So as the image shows the much bigger man says "I'll ask one more time... What are you reading?" The man reading has no choice but to reply with the title of the book "What's it to you?" funny ironic situation.

Irony is an implied disagreement within the use of words to what is said and what is meant, conveying a meaning which is hardly caught by the person on the other end of it. Now irony can be relevant to a manner of self to self, it could be self to crowd, or text to self. It isn't always as individual as to sarcasm or being funny, it usually doesn't even deal with humor. It's ironic how people turn out to be the person they least expect, or grow up to be just like their parents. Life just usually has the ironic twist to make things turn out as the least way you expect it to. Irony pops into our everyday life it is relevant whether we observe it, catch it, or acknowledge it.