OTHELLO ESSAY Shakespeare’s domestic tragedy Othello continues to engage audiences through its exploration of race and gender power plays- universal concerns that transcend time and place. Othello is a warning for those who attempt to usurp the Elizabethan chain of being power structure. Those people‚ who attempt to contravene the divinely constructed social order‚ are punished for their anomalous actions. Through extracting the perennial power relations of the play‚ a Marxist and Feminist paradigm
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In an incredulous effort to portray the anguish and love in Romeo and Juliet’s tragic fairy-tale moves onscreen capturing the hearts and minds of millions. In both the movie and the play‚ Romeo and Juliet were called star-crossed lovers‚ meaning their fate lead them together‚ and neared them to their tragic demise. The movie had shown their first encounter as a magical affair where enchanted music played in their ears and the two fell deeply in love with one another. Seconds earlier‚ Romeo had
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his use of recurring themes throughout his works‚ particularly those of love‚ death‚ and betrayal. All these themes are present in Othello. Most paramount‚ however‚ is jealousy. Jealousy runs the characters’ lives in Othello from the beginning of the play‚ when Roderigo is envious of Othello because he wishes to be with Desdemona‚ and to the end of the play‚ when Othello is furious with envy because he believes Cassio and Desdemona have been engaging in an affair. Some characters’ jealousy is fashioned
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Throughout the entire play of Shakespeare’s “Othello”‚ the character Iago manipulates many of the other characters by appearing a certain way then hiding the truth of what he really thinks about the characters. The characters‚ such as Othello‚ believe that Iago‚ his (ensign???) is very honest and will never tell a lie‚ they even refer to him as “honest Iago” (add the act and the scene to this) because they have great faith in his character. Little does shakespeare’s characters know‚ but Iago has
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Contrast Shakespeare’s use of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream ( DEC 08) A play within a play is a literary device that is used for several purposes-contrast‚ mirroring and for purely comedic purposes. Hamlet Midsummer Night’s Dream 1 In Hamlet it displayed self consciousness 1 In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare shows the process of creating and staging a play through the rehearsals of the ‘ rude mechanicals’ 2
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into the id‚ ego‚ and superego. Together‚ these parts create one complex personality. William Shakespeare filled his plays with complex personalities knowing nothing of Freud’s theory. However‚ characters throughout all of Shakespeare’s works have strong affinities for their id‚ ego‚ or superego. From the psychoanalysis view‚ William Shakespeare’s dynamic characters in the play Othello can be derived using
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manipulative person in this drama‚ Othello. He even said so himself; "I am not what I am" (1.1.71) Iago only causes chaos and pain throughout the drama‚ and finds everyone’s weaknesses only to use it against them as seen through Cassio‚ Roderigo‚ and Othello. Cassio‚ a respectable young man who is chosen as Othello’s lieutenant at the start of the story‚ is greatly envied by Iago for his position. After the battle against the Turks‚ Iago thinks of a brilliant plan to ruin Othello. In order to accomplish
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Published by: Rice University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450520 Accessed: 01/05/2008 11:43 page 319 The most dramatic reactions to Othello’s blackness within the play are those of Iago and Roderigo in the opening scene. Their overt and vicious racism provides the background for Othello’s first appearance. For Iago Othello is "an old black ram" (I.i.88)‚ "the devil" (I.i.91)‚ and a "Barbary horse" (I.i.lll); the consum-mation of his marriage is a making of "the beast with two backs" (I.i.115-16)
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through his works for the first time‚ Shakespeare crafted dynamic paradigms for the average downtrodden woman to aspire up to. He conveyed profound statements about the backwards nature of the shibboleths that were commonly held. In his tragedy Othello‚ Shakespeare upheaves the status quo through the strong female character Emilia. His disapproval of the traditional stance is indicated by the creation
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Envy In William Shakespeare’s Othello‚ desire manifests itself in Iago‚ compelling readers to see him as if he were a leech; Iago drains Othello of all his moral qualities until he is sucked dry. Similarly‚ Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice indulges in seeing Antonio sucked dry of money. Both Iago and Shylock are compelled to see their enemies suffer through means that once deprived them‚ such as Iago being deprived of his rank and Shylock being deprived of money and respect. Although
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