lesson that can be learned. From a racial perspective‚ the tragedy exposes the powerful outcomes that racial differences can generate when in conjunction with one’s personal self-doubt. With Iago’s manipulations the notions of race were provoked for Brabantio‚ Rodrigo‚ and Othello‚ activating any suppressed racial prejudices and self-doubt. It seems obvious that Iago has strong feelings of personal inadequacy and is jealous and resentful of the love shared between Othello and Desdemona. However‚ Iago’s
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disobeys her father directly‚ even as he is watching. When she tells Ferdinand her name and again in a few lines where she announces "But I prattle / Something too wildly‚ and my father’s precepts / I therein do forget." With Shylock/Jessica and Brabantio/Desdemona we again see similarities. In both cases we have fathers with daughters who have seemingly been dutiful up until the point at which they entertain romantic feelings for men outside of their race. Both daughters rebel against their father’s
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things that are wrong; they just try not to get caught.” Men in Othello are very conniving. They’re jealousy brings out a very persuasive‚ lying side of them. For instance‚ Brabantio suggests to Othello that since Desdemona went against her father by marrying him‚ she could go against him as well. It’s clear that what Brabantio is saying is just due to the fact no one wants Desdemona and Othello together. More than half the assumptions made towards women are
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hides her relationship with Othello from her father‚ knowing he will disapprove due to Othello’s race. Brabantio says‚ "O‚ she deceives me/Past thought!" (1.1.163-164). Desdemona’s reasoning for deceiving her father was to protect him. "Desdemona’s devotion to her husband is almost superhuman‚ as is her courage in marrying him over the objections of her father‚ the Venetian senator Brabantio." (Andrews 132). She knew her father would eventually find out the truth‚ but she felt that by hiding her
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superheroes imbues him with heroic characteristics. Othello’s speech is overlayed with flashback scenes of his relationship with Desdemona illustrating the ‘world of sighs she gave me for my pains’. A low angle shot of Othello standing over the sitting Brabantio implies his triumph over him. Parker constructs their relationship as a competition for Desdemona’s love and makes her a symbolised war trophy to Othello. Othello’s identity is built on the basis of his ethnicity‚ relations with officials‚ and occupation
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part of the play by submerging the audience in the deception via Iago’s speech from the opening scene. He makes the audience feel like being a passer- by in the street of Venice. They hear the argument between Iago and Roderigo. Then follow them to Brabantio like paparazzi. Shakespeare keeps the audience stick to the story. I think this is the effect he wants to have on the audience by making them feel like a part of the play‚ like they are not audience‚ but one of the actor which is unseen.
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A Post-Colonial Critique of Othello A Mismanagement of Mirroring Gregory Schneider‚ Yahoo! Contributor Network Nov 26‚ 2005 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here." More: Othello Mirroring Venetian Masks FlagPost a comment Time passes‚ class texts are read‚ dissected‚ deconstructed. Suddenly in the epochs of literary criticism‚ a new theory emerges. Schools of thought form and take shape and eventually find themselves in the subconscious of the reader‚ who now has the option of understanding
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Course: College English 2 Date: 12/4/12 Marital destruction out of dysfunctional marriage and Othello’s characters William Shakespeare is（1564-1616） widely regarded as the greatest writer in the history of English literature and the most pre-eminent dramatist around the world. Among all his works‚ many literary critics regard Othello as the peak of his tragedies. Othello is not only a tragedy of family‚ but also a tragedy of love. Jealous psychology of the characters ultimately leads to the
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Ugly black twisted tree in the middle of a green field and a butterfly is chained next to it RACE and GENDER MANIPULATION: Iago manipulates Brabantio into believing Desdemona ran off with Othello in a negative way Iago manipulates Cassio in drinking and starting a fight Iago manipulates Othello into thinking Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair GENDER ROLE: Iago’s depiction of female- his treatment and rude comments about Emilia and Bianca Iago’s telling Roderigo women only wanted sex
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Explore the ways that Shakespeare presents his characters in difficult circumstances in Romeo and Juliet and Othello. In Romeo and Juliet and Othello‚ Shakespeare presents Romeo’s love for Juliet through references to the stars and other cosmic images. The fact that Romeo says‚ “arise fair sun and kill the envious moon in “suggests that because he loves Juliet and is willing to marry her ‚she should lose her respect and loyalty to the moon which represents the goddess Diana who at that time was referred
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