Statement of intent I have based this critical essay on the classic text Othello‚ with the purpose of proving why jealousy is not confined to Othello. The audience of this critical essay will be those who are studying Shakespearean texts and other critics of Othello. The theme of jealousy is a product of Iago’s damaged pride in the play Othello‚ written by William Shakespeare. In the play‚ jealousy spreads like a plague through the main characters by using Iago as the host‚ thus not confining jealousy
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"If Othello didn’t begin as a play about race‚ history has made it one." The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan society in England in the sixteenth-century. Although Othello is set in Venice and Cyprus‚ the attitudes and values shared in the text are probably reflective of the attitudes and values of Shakespeare’s own
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of the first themes we come across is lying. At the beginning‚ we’re informed that Othello and Desdemona are wed. The protagonist‚ Iago and his companion Roderigo go tell Desdemona’s father this for their own self-interest. They cause a stir and Brabantio is livid‚ his daughter had been taken from him and so he yells‚ “Fathers‚ from hence trust not your daughters’ minds / By what you see them act!” (1.1.171-172)
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Explore how Shakespeare examines the themes if jealousy and deception in Othello the play and Othello the character. Sana Thomas Jealousy and Deception are both continuous themes running through out Shakespeare’s Othello. Indeed‚ it is jealousy that provides the fuel for the plot and deception that leads to the classic downfall of the ’hero’ as is common in Shakespeare tragedies. However‚ it is a theme of hate that the play opens. It is a hate of inveterate anger. It is a hate that is
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his rank and strips him of it; once he’s convinced of Desdemona and Cassio’s guilt‚ he orders Iago to execute Cassio and he kills his wife himself. MaleMain Character Mental Sex Othello moves to solve his problems by using linear thinking. When Brabantio accuses Othello of using witchcraft to seduce Desdemona‚ Othello suggests that she be summoned to give evidence of their courtship. When he’s disturbed by the commotion during the celebration‚ Othello demands the witnesses identify those responsible
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Othello Held a captive and cannot escape the grips of racism‚ Othello must battle with this matter from day one till his call of death. Just because his skin tone is unusual from Venice and its citizens‚ makes Othello an outcast .Although born a black moor‚ Othello has all the great characteristics a man should have. Being courageous‚ honorable‚ intelligent and all the aspects a woman would want in a husband. He grew up to be a venetian military general who has risen to high position of power
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tell Desdemona’s father Brabantio of their marriage. Iago does this because he has hatred for Othello because he gave Cassio‚ an inexperienced soldier‚ rank of lieutenant over him. Though Brabantio respects Othello as a soldier‚ he doesn’t see him fit as a husband for his daughter. Before Brabantio can reach Othello‚ Cassio goes to Othello to tell him that the duke is calling him to send him to Cyprus to fight off a Turkish fleet. After Othello has gotten this news‚ Brabantio enters and accuses Othello
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them from their actual attack in Cyprus. A messenger enters and tells them that the Turks met another fleet on the trip to Rhodes and changed course toward Cyprus. The Duke asks for Marcus Luccious and Othello enters with Roderigo‚ Iago‚ and Brabantio. Brabantio tells the Duke that Othello manipulated or charmed his daughter into marriage. Othello argues that he did not force Desdemona into marriage but rather married her out of their shared love. The Duke sends for Desdemona to confirm his account
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MAJOR ENGLISH WRITERS ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY OTHELLO FAJRI KURNIAWAN 1010733020 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF HUMANITY ANDALAS UNIVERSITY PADANG 2013 Background of the author William Shakespeare is the most famous writer of plays in the English language. He was born in 1564‚ in Stratford upon-Avon and died on the 23rd of April‚ 1616. He wrote thirty-nine plays and hundreds of poems. His father William was a successful local businessman and his mother Mary
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Even now‚ now‚ very now‚ an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. Arise‚ arise; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell‚ Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you. Arise I say! (s1.a1.l9) | Iago uses racist slurs when he wakens Brabantio with the news that his daughter‚ Desdemona (a white Venetian)‚ has eloped with Othello (an older‚ black man). When Iago says an "old black ram" (Othello) is "tupping" (sleeping with) Brabantio’s "white ewe" (Desdemona)‚ he plays on Elizabethan notions
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