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    be traced throughout his plays. In this essay would be looking at Shakespeare’s Othello‚ Twelfth Night‚ and The Merchant of Venice. Within each of these works‚ there are characters that act as advisors‚ advocates‚ or go-betweens. These characters may be the protagonist or antagonist‚ the main or minor character‚ but they help move the plot forward with their actions. In Othello‚ Iago appears to be the advisor to Othello‚ yet he has other motives that drive the play forward. Also‚ Emilia‚ Iago’s wife

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    opinion on the movie O and that it related to the play Othello because there were many differences but all the end it did seem like an Othello ending. Like for example in the play they used swords and knives in the movie used guns. Plus‚ there was a war going on in the play but in O it was just a basketball. But both stories are still similar because both Odin and Othello both have anger and jealously. This movie was good because it did show Othello in a different way‚ but the characters were still the

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    is said by Othello regarding Desdemona and their marriage. Othello was accused of using witchcraft; he said that their love was not forced. Othello explained that their love is natural and it wasn’t magic or a spell. It was his adventures and tales of the adventures that brought them closer. 2. The quote is said by Brabantio (Desdemona’s Father) after he fins out of the marriage‚ this is a warning to Othello that if Desdemona could lie to her father‚ than she could lie to Othello as well. 
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    character‚ Okonkwo‚ struggles with change within in himself and his surroundings throughout the book‚ Things Fall Apart. Even though Okonkwo resists change‚ we notice as the audience the natural human feelings within him: love‚ happiness‚ and care. As the story progresses the conflicts within the story does too affect our feelings for Okonkwo when he acts rashly towards these conflicts. We always seem to be brought back to sanity with Okonkwo because we have an insight of the human Okonkwo is. In a

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    and as a result‚ Okonkwo associated these qualities as what it means to be masculine. Although Okonkwo demonstrates many masculine qualities such his strength and work ethic‚ he fails to exhibit compassion and understanding towards others; in fear of appearing weak like his father. Despite his high status among the tribe‚ Okonkwo failed to develop and maintain healthy relationships because of his

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    Okonkwo And Umuofia

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    Set in Nigeria during the nineteenth century‚ Things Fall Apart uses the life of Okonkwo to illustrate the conflict between the traditional Igbo culture and European colonization. Given his father’s indolence‚ Okonkwo was born into poverty‚ yet he soon became the most respectable person in his clan by aggressively annexing other clans. When Okonkwo was in exile‚ the European colonizers invaded Umuofia and other clans in which they established Christian churches and implemented a new system of governance

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    Okonkwo

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    Okonkwo Analysis

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    life sprung from his desire to be unlike his father. During his childhood‚ Okonkwo suffered when he saw people begging for his father to return their money. Because of that‚ Okonkwo makes a promise to become a hardworking man. His first step is achieving greatness through wrestling. The moment he defeats Amalinze the Cat‚ who used to be an undefeated warrior up until then‚ is the moment clansmen realize how different Okonkwo is from his father: “His [Okonkwo’s] life had been ruled by a great passion-to

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    fall apart gender is dwelled mostly on the main character okonkwo who believes what a man should be and those who don’t fit his own description of a man is worthless in a sense. Also his description of how a man should be causes him to hate his father a resent his own son. Okonkwos mind set of gender leads him into doing many different things‚ some leading him into fame and others leading him into misfortune. What is being a man? To okonkwo being a man is being a man that is strong and prideful and

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    to be a man. Masculinity has always been a fragile thing made of specific thoughts and actions. If someone does not do or think those specific manly things‚ they are not a man. Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart‚ by Chinua Achebe‚ has a very strict idea of what a man is. Okonkwo strove all his life to gain a title. Okonkwo believes that a title is a necessary thing to be considered a man. He even goes so far as to call a title-less man a woman. “The man who had contradicted him had no titles. That

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