Name: Marco Conservo Candidate number: May 2013 session International School of Milan English A language and literature HL Task 2: Reader‚ culture and text Prescribed question: If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience‚ how and why might it differ? Specific question: If Othello had been set in a modern era‚ how would it differ? Title of text: Othello Task is related to course section Pt 4: Literature- Critical
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Tragedy of Desdemona In the play “Othello the Moor of Venice” by William Shakespeare‚ Desdemona is the Venetian beauty who upsets her father Brabantio‚ a Venetian senator by eloping with Othello‚ a man several years her age‚ she is introduced confessing love for Othello to her father Brabantio before the Venetian senate‚ where she expressed her feelings toward her father and at the same time proved loyal to Othello. Desdemona is simply a good person‚ however during the course of the play her character
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Another major conflict in the play Othello was Man vs. Man. This conflict is between Brabantio‚ Desdemona’s father and Othello‚ the moor who married Desdemona. The conflict started when Othello married Desdemona without Brabantio approval or knowing about it. Brabantio was looking to take control of his daughter’s life. Even Though Othello was a noble moor in the military service of Venice‚ Brabantio didn’t want his daughter marrying him simply because Othello was a moor‚
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evil and expresses Othello’s developed distaste for her. Act 1 Scene 1 ’Awake! What‚ ho‚ Brabantio! Thieves! Thieves! Thieves! Look to your house‚ your daughter and your bags! Thieves! Thieves!’ Iago is calling Othello a thief as he has ran away with Desdemona‚ this can be seen as misogynistic as Desdemona is considered to be the property of her father. This is followed up in act 2 where Brabantio shouts ’o thou foul thief‚ where hast thou stow’d my daughter’‚ The fact that Desdemona is not
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takes place during the night in a street in Venice. Iago and Roderigo are loudly conversing with each other. 2. Why do Iago and Roderigo wake up Brabantio? Why is Brabantio angry? Why does Iago slip quietly away once Brabantio comes down? Iago and Roderigo wake up Brabantio to spoil his happiness by telling him the Desdemona ran off with Othello. Brabantio is originally angry because he had told them not to come around him house‚ but is even more angry when he finds out that Desdemona is missing
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as a thicklips * Iago waking Brabantio to tell him of Desdemona’s elopement: Look to your house‚ your daughter and your bags! * Iago to Brabantio: an old black ram / Is topping your white ewe * Iago to Brabantio: the devil will make a grandsire of you * Iago to Brabantio: you’ll / have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse * Iago to Brabantio: your daughter / and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. * Roderigo tells Brabantio that Desdemona has escaped To the
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with the fair Desdemona. Respected by the Duke of Venice‚ who is the first to address him by name (Othello in Act I‚ Scene III) and who sends for him when Cypress is threatened by Turkish forces‚ Othello is continuously described by his critics (Brabantio‚ Iago) as a "Moor" a reference to his dark skinned appearance and a reference to the race of Muslim peoples of north-western Africa to which Othello belongs. 2.)Though made Governor of Cypress in Act I‚ Scene III‚ Othello’s fortunes rapidly change
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relationships between Othello and Iago‚ Iago and Cassio‚ and the interaction between Brabantio and Iago/ Rodriego. This is not only shown as a hidden trust between two characters but also with the use of the word trust and honesty within the text. Rodrigo and Iago speak to each other about their hidden plans to tell Brabantio about his daughter’s relationship with the moor‚ and then decide to go to the Brabantio to tell him of his daughter’s whereabouts .When they get to Brabatios house and finally
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Video games have become modern-day Othello. Both are praised for their contributions to society‚ but both are also harassed based on the effects of other individuals. While both may take place in different time eras‚ 16th century for Othello and 20-21st for video games‚ both share similarities in the eye of the public. In Shakespeare’s Othello‚ the main character‚ Othello‚ is a Moorish general in the Venetian army during the 16th century. However‚ because of the culture and the time of the play’s
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judgment towards black men). Desdemona’s father‚ Brabantio accuses Othello of stealing his daughter and said that Desdemona “is abused…by spells and medicines” (II‚i‚60). Brabantio believe that Othello has charmed and abuse Desdemona‚ and that he is a moor‚ a bad‚ evil man; and Brabantio made all these judgment and accuses all bases on one fact‚ that Othello is a black man. Through the play‚ we can see that Othello is not that kind of person Brabantio think he is; and he did not charmed and abuse Desdemona
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