El si de las ninas

What I noticed most about this story was the fact that it was a comedy. I know in class we said when it is a comedy it doesn't have to be "haha" funny like we would expect. However, I believe comedy is just another form of art that over the years and throughout cultures has developed and expanded.

In this sense, the art of comedy must have started somewhere, with something, and I would most likely attribute the beginning of comedy to irony. In this play, there is a lot of irony. In our sarcastic and derived world today, ironic humor is more than just a daily experience. It comes as no surprise when we hear comedy in this form, and thus this ironic comedy has lost some of its zeal.

But what we have to do is realize that this story was written so long ago. Over such a long period of time, the art of comedy has had ample time to evolve itself into the slapstick forms we see of it today. In those times, for an upper class person, this could very feasibly been one of the most ironic and complicated love stories that could be thought of. The contemporaries of this time probably didn't tell jokes to each other and make inappropriate remarks that many people of today's world think are hilarious, but instead they resorted to using the irony of living in a seemingly huge world, but how we are continually reminded that our individual worlds are small.

All in all, I believe the people of this time thought this play was funny, and although I wasn't dying laughing when I was reading it, I certainly see where they were coming from.