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Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Monday, October 6, 2008

O.J. Simpson

Does anyone find it ironic that we are reading Othello at the same time that O.J. Simpson was newly convicted of a crime, thirteen years after the aquittal of his first crime that just so happens to parallel to Shakespeare's play

9 comments:

alexlawhon said...

this may be a stupid question but how is there irony in that? or how does it relate to the play other than they are both black?

alexlawhon said...

nevermind i forgot it was in the intro

makenzie kozojet said...

i have to agree with alex on this i don't realy see how it relates to O.J.

Mister Dee said...

Not ironic- just a strange coincidence.

Ele said...

i can somewhat see a comparison...

danield said...

ehh not much of a comparison other then them both being black

Maryclaire said...

haha okay fine... clearly none of y'all read page one of the introduction but here is a direct quote.. "Even our most sensational crime, the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, and the trial of O. J. Simpson, with significant differences, REPLAYS THE OTHELLO STORY TO A REMARKABLE DEGREE, DOWN TO AN ALMOST IDENTICAL CAST OF CHARACTERS."... Ms. Deckard maybe you should re-quiz everyone on the intro because it seems no one read it.

Sarah said...

wow mare i think it is ironic i like where your head is at

Mister Dee said...

Sarah, that's just a coincidence. Irony is if OJ gets killed by 'the real killer' in jail