Francesco Castello, often considered the greatest Baroque architect and a true genius, was born to a stonemason family in Bissone. He was related to the papal architects Carlo Maderno and Domenico Fontana; hence, it was in his blood to become a builder. He later changed his name to his mother’s family name, Borromini, and his true architectural career began. At the pinnacle of it all, we find the beautiful church of Sant’ivo Alla Sapienza, where his mastery in the creation of complex spaces is evident in a very confined project.…
Othello is a Shakespearean tragedy, set in Elizabethan Times that present the relationship between, Othello, a ‘moor’ who’s an official in the Venetian army and Desdemona, the daughter of a noble Venetian Senator, Brabantio, and how despite their different experiences in love, a strong relationship can occur, without any initial external input. Desdemona’s assertive behaviour towards romantically pursing Othello, demonstrates her confidence and power, which she maintains throughout the play. Most significantly, the fact that Othello did not ask for Brabantio’s permission to marry Desdemona, demonstrates how Othello did not consider the traditional values of Elizabeth society. However as they play develops, Iago’s manipulation of Othello’s insecurities, leads to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona falling apart.…
At the beginning of the play, Othello is considered as a very respectable man and is even referred to as a moor, which shows his strong authority. In Act 1 Scene 3 however, we find Othello in a council room in Venice in front of the Duke, senators and officers with a concern about his marriage with Desdemona. In this scene, Othello is a highly respected man who has been promoted to a high office, despite the prejudice he has encountered. In the court he states that he is not a good talker when he says ‘Rude am I in my speech’; which shows that he is an honest and valued man. However he is eloquent speaking in Iambic pentameter, and is in fact a great speaker. Throughout this scene, it is discovered that Othello and Desdemona had run away together to get married. Brabantio, whom is Desdemona’s father, does not approve of this, and accuses Othello of drugging his daughter and using witchcraft on her to make her fall in love with her. Brabantio makes many crude comments such as “Against all rules of nature, and must be driven to find out practices of cunning hell” and “Or with some dram, conjured to this effect, he wrought upon her” and “To fall in love with what she feared to look on”. All of those negative and hurtful comments are the accusations that Brabantio used against Othello. He states that there is no real love there, and that Othello has surely tricked Desdemona into loving him. However Othello is restraint and remains calm…
Despite having done his services to the state, he reveals his foolishness as someone who existed within and outside Venetian society giving rise to a series of contradictions. In line 342, he asks others to speak of him as he truly is being, “nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice.” The first contradictory sentence reveals that he does not wish for his guilt to be lessened as suggested by the diction “extenuate.” Nor does he want be considered evil which he would feel ashamed for as Iago is the real villain in the play. Othello reveals in the next line that he has “loved not wisely, but too well” indicating that he was unable to convey the same amount of affection back to Desdemona as she had done to him. Othello’s love for Desdemona reveals a sensitive part of Othello despite his military background. It was Othello’s love for Desdemona, however, that acted as a catalyst to…
5. Why is Brabantio so against having Othello for a son-in-law? Does he seem to blame his daughter for running off with this man? Would he feel differently if Desi had run off with another man?…
He is insecure of his job, his life, and feels like an outsider from not being a Venetian like some of the other characters in this play. Ironically, Desdemona’s and Othello are -or they were- fairly good friends and Othello was invited into their home multiple times. When Brabantio finds out about his daughters marriage, of course he is hurt, but he feels betrayed by Othello. He assumes that his daughter must have been drugged to make her fall in love with him and Brabantio calls for the couple to explain. Keep in mind that Othello and Desdemona are deeply in love and they just got married. Both Othello and Desdemona know that her father didn’t want the marriage and he wanted to prove his worthiness by respectfully standing up to Brabantio, but he called for his wife so she could convince him that their marriage is, in fact, real. In this time period, it was considered reckless to marry for love, so the parents- in this case, Brabantio alone- tended to choose the spouse for their child. Of course Desdemona doesn’t want this, so when she says “But here’s my…
” he believes is going on like when he says “This hand is moist” meaning you are having an affair. During the time though words had many double meanings and moist also meant youthful. Essentially all of the things Othello says to Desdemona that hint at the supposed affair are just things that she is taking as compliments.…
These famous lines are written by Shakespeare for his play “Othello”. It was one of the most successful plays of Shakespeare which directly targeted human behaviors and human psychology. The play is capable in presenting variety of behavioral and psychological modifications and modulations within one character of “Othello”, by which the character became more complex and intense and became the matter of discussion not only for the critics of literature but also for the disciples of science and psychology.…
Othello sees himself as an outsider- the whole out of my league thing- he cant believe that Desdemona has married me…
In the following lines it seems like he is convincing himself rather than Roderigo that Desdemona would soon get over Othello and want…
in Othello from the beginning of the play, when Roderigo is envious of Othello because he wishes to be with Desdemona, and…
By stating that Desdemona “loved me [him] for the dangers I [he] had passed” and that he “loved her that she did pity them” corroborates Carol McGinnis Kay’s argument that the basis for Othello’s and Desdemona’s love “is the grand romantic picture of Othello that they both admire and pity” (265). Hence, Othello’s “love” for his wife derives from “the image of Othello that Desdemona reflects to him” (265), which is, I would argue, even more explicitly indicated by Shakespeare when he has Othello proclaim to Desdemona that he “does love thee [her]”, and “when I [he] love[s] thee not, chaos is come again” (1314). Although I would insist on approaching those hypothetical nature of the roots of the couple’s relationship with a non-absolutist attitude, considering the limited access the audience has to the two characters either in the form of revealing asides or an adequacy of mutual interaction in any of the acts, I concur with Kay’s point, in that Othello’s love for Desdemona is rather self-oriented, a mirror of his own desirable self-concept as a romantic warrior, contrary to Mose Durst’s rather simplistic perception of “Othello’s love for Desdemona”, namely as having “given his life its most profound meaning” merely…
In this passage, the Duke of Venice asked Othello why he loves Desdemona, he tells him that his love has grown as Desdemona would listen to his stories about war and pity them. By Othello saying this it provides evidence that there is no fundamental foundation binding this relationship together. Othello is basing his love on pity instead of the strong affection and feelings that is necessary to hold or keep a relationship together. This clearly lays out that the relationship between the two is not really based on much. Albert Gerard discusses how Othello 's lack in self- knowledge contributes to his poor judgments.…
Devil: indeed, and you Othello, I believe we have to trade our wares now, come along, we don’t have all day.…
"She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, and I loved her that she did pity them" (Othello, I.iii 166-167). William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello," is pervaded by a dominant theme, one of love. Othello, the Moor of Venice falls madly in love with a woman named Desdemona. They marry and are very happy together. Othello and Desdemona face many trials during the course of their nine-month marriage. The most notable one occurs when Barbanzio, Desdemona's father accuses Othello of getting his daughter with witchcraft. During a court hearing, Desdemona confesses her love for Othello and Barbanzio is forced to let her go.…