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    Othello: Friends

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    impact on one’s life. Shakespeare understood the crucial effect of friends and usually authored his plays around the fundamental impact of others. Shakespeare’s Othello possesses a premise of one’s choice in friends supplementary to his other works. Shakespeare’s play Othello emphasizes the importance of good choices in friends through Othello‚ Cassio‚ and Rodrigo’s vulnerability to trust Iago. Iago is not a traditional villain for he plays a unique and complex role. Unlike most villains in tragic

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    Racism in Othello

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    non-dramatic text offered on the module‚ (an extract from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Literary Remains‚) and show how it might help us understand Othello. The extract presents a sustained attack by Coleridge on Shakespeare for his lack of realism in the ’monstrous’ depiction of a marriage between a ’beautiful Venetian girl‚’ and a ’veritable negro‚’ in Othello. He sees Shakespeare’s transformation of a ’barbarous negro’ into a respected soldier and nobleman of stature as ’ignorant’‚ since at the time

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    Othello Essay

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    Othello Essay Question: How is the issue of conflict used by composers to express and change within and between characters? Discuss with close reference to the Shakespearian play Othello that you have been studying in class. Conflict has the ability to alter characters and tarnish their relationships which may lead to – more often than not – tragic consequences. This is clearly illustrated in the Shakespearian play‚ Othello. Through the main characters of Iago‚ Othello and Desdemona‚ the

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    Insecurity In Othello

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    Shakespeare’s play Othello‚ the characters response to betrayal are violent and unjustified. Othello and Iago both have large insecurities‚ and believe their honor is more important than living. Othello is an emotion and unsure character‚ and therefore is easily controlled by the overflowing self-confidence of Iago. Othello and Desdemona are a newly married couple now living in a new country. Their first moths of marriage they spent apart on ships. Now that they are together‚ Othello cannot help but

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    Othello the Outsider

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    Shakespeare portrays Venice as incredibly advanced for its time. This is seen especially though its democratic justice system‚ as we are shown that in Act One everybody has a voice regardless of their colour or sex. The fact that Othello has obtained the high position of “general” within the army suggests that his chances have by no means been restricted by the colour of his skin. Also the fact that he is treated with the utmost respect from the Duke‚ the highest authority in Venice‚ shows that the

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    Imagery in Othello

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    The function of imagery in the mid-sixteenth century play Othello by William Shakespeare is to aid characterisation and define meaning in the play. The antagonist Iago is defined through many different images‚ Some being the use of poison and soporifics‚ sleeping agents‚ to show his true evil and sadistic nature. Othello’s character is also shaped by much imagery such as the animalistic‚ black and white‚ and horse images which indicates his lustful‚ sexual nature. Characterisation of women is heavily

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    Othello Notes

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    Othello OneNote notes: Act 1 Scene 1: The action of the first scene heightens the audience’s anticipations of Othello’s appearance - He is identified in terms of his rare/an outsider (’The Moor"‚ ’the thick-lip’‚ ’A Barbary horse’ exogamous marriage. Because of this we know what Iago is like‚ we feel sympathy of Othello especially with him as an outsider and Iago is pretending to be his friend. Very moment he should be at his happiest‚ they’re plotting to destroy it. Duplicity of Iago. Two extremes;

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    Deception In Othello

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    action of the main characters: Othello‚ Iago‚ and Desdemona. Othello is‚ at heart‚ a play about deception‚ and the emotional turmoil and mental anguish it can cause. Although Iago aptly demonstrates all that is evil through his malevolent manipulation of others‚ he is not the only practitioner of deception in the play. Othello himself can also be regarded as a study in deception‚ albeit of a much more subtle variety than that of the gleefully fiendish Iago; for Othello engages in self-deception – less

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    Medea and Othello

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    Two tragedies from two different time period‚ Medea and Othello show similarities and differences in their characters‚ story plots and settings. Euripedes’ Medea written in the classical period and Shakespeare’s Othello written in the romantic era‚ the two tragedies shows different feel of what tragedies are. First of all‚ the most obvious difference between these two play is how Medea shows unities (time‚ place and action) whilst Othello has none. It’s clearly shown in the first scene‚ as soon

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    Infidelity In Othello

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    In the play “Othello” by William Shakespeare‚ the story is about a black general who is respected by the head of the militia because of his achievement as a military. This character‚ Othello‚ falls in love with a young woman called‚ Desdemona. Their love was put to prove when Iago‚ a young military wanted to get revenge from Othello because he did not choose him as his lieutenant. Iago planned a situation in which he put Othello‚ Desdemona and Cassio in love triangle that Othello did not want to

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