Arsenic and Old Lace.

1.Define:  irony.



2.List and briefly discuss as many examples if irony that you can find and/or remember in the movie. 

a.) The title has Irony written all over it. Arsenic is a poision commaly used to kill rats and some rodents and wood persevatives(http://ezinearticles.com/?Arsenic,-the-Poisoning-of-a-Nation&id=80641). Where as lace is soft and pretty. It reminds me of a wedding dress. However, not the case in the movie.

b.) Mortimer. He is just ironic period! I found it odd at first as to why he was speaking so low ant the marriage lisencures office. Then later, Elane's father holds up the book he wrote about how marriage was a fraud.

c.) The police are ironies. They have no clue Jonathan is wanted and he is standing right in front of them.

d.) The dead body in the window seat, while the cops are there.

e.) "I got the two nicest aunts in the world"- funny how they kill people huh?.

f.)The who done it play "murder well out", as cary grant is saying "when the currten goes up the first thing you see is a dead body". He is opening the window seat. hehe.

g.)How the aunts are affraid of horror movies yet the y kill people.

h.) how calm the aunts are as they are telling Mortimer about how they killed the man in the window seat.

i.) It is really funny how the aunts live next to a cemitary but don't want to bury him there.

j.) When Elane calls and whistles the "where comes the bride" theme song, and Mortimer says to keep her shirt on, when he was wanting to do it in the first place.

k.) how every one keeps sitting on the  window seat.