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    enriches him”. He suggests that Othello should be wary of being jealous‚ knowing full well that by nature Othello is not a jealous man: “O!  Beware‚ my lord‚ of jealousy:/ It is the green-eye’d monster‚ which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on:  that cuckold lives in bliss/ Who‚ certain of its fate‚ loves not his wronger”. Iago goes on to remind Othello

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    Turks Defeat an Act of God? Just last week‚ a massive storm hit just off the coast of Cyprus. The Turkish fleet that has been waiting to attack Cyprus was decimated. The authorities have given us little information‚ but we have been led to believe that the entire fleet was destroyed. However‚ Othello (ship pictured above)‚ somehow made it through the storm and arrived at Cyprus late in the night. Religious leaders are beginning to question if there was divine intervention involved. It was overheard

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    Jealousy and Othello

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    “Othello” is the most famous literary work by Shakespeare that focuses on the dangers of jealousy. The tragedy "Othello is a story based upon the revenge of two characters‚ Shakespeare’s Othello is a play with unique characters. One such character is the one for which Shakespeare names his play. Using‚ Othello as the main character discussed he poses some strengths and weaknesses. Othello’s strength that was seen within this play was that Othello is a masterful general and very skilled and is very

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    "In Hemingway the obsession with physical courage is clearly a personal problem. In "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Francis runs away from a lion‚ which is what most sensible men would do if faced by a lion and his wife promptly cuckolds him with the English manger of their big-game hunting exhibition. As we all know‚ good wives admire nothing in a husband except his capacity to deal with lions‚ so we can sympathize with the poor woman in her trouble. But the next day

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    Manhattan Skyline is‚ for the most part‚ stuck behind fences or cloaked by fog‚ implying a physical barrier between success and the longshoremen‚ who are powerless to do anything but “just take it”. We are presented with generations of men caught in the cuckold of a “code” that has perverted every aspect of their lives‚ making them constantly look out for the “hawks” who “hang around on the top of the big hotels”. It is this

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    heart. Yet‚ how quickly he is persuaded to doubt‚ and how he criticizes her. "Ay‚ let her rot‚ and perish‚ and be damn’d tonight‚ for she shall not live. No‚ me heart is turn’d to stone; I strike it‚ and it hurts my hand…I will chop her into messes. Cuckold me!" (act1 scene1 page67). But Othello never thinks to question Iago. Why should he? Iago is an honest man. Iago is wise. Iago is only trying to help. So Othello doesn’t even stop to think that maybe he should talk this over with Desdemona before

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    that he can ‘turn black into white’ and that he has a ‘shrill voice’ and ‘twinkling eyes’; these are his assets of manipulation. His first example of deceit in the novel is when the pigs have taken the milk and apples for themselves‚ and Squealer cuckolds the ignorant animals with lies such as ‘Many of us actually dislike milk and apples (pg. 23‚ Chapter 3).’ On top of that Squealer also uses false statistics in this speech to support his arguments‚ an example includes ‘Milk and apples (this has been

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    Power in Othello: Othello: Othello‚ the principle character‚ at the beginning seems to have power- whether it is physical‚ psychological‚ political or military. He is portrayed to the audience as a symbol of power and strength. As an experienced soldier‚ a General to be precise‚ Othello has had little experience with women. Even though he is a high ranking military official‚ he is less respected because of his dark skin and being a foreigner. His stature and tone of voice‚ along with his self-confidence

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    Femininity In Othello

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    The question of femininity and what it entails has always played a part in literature. We as readers look for this aspect and its definition through all works of writing‚ but we focus more on what it means to be a woman and the idea of femininity through works like Shakespeare’s Othello and The Miller’s Tale from Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”. In these works‚ the authors define femininity through varying descriptions of a women’s characteristics and her actions‚ as it is all perceived from the

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    would have been much happier had he been oblivious to his wife’s betrayal (“He that is robb’d‚ not wanting what is stolen‚ [l]et him not know’t and he’s not robb’d at all.”). Moreover‚ Othello’s loss of reputation as a result of being made into a “cuckold” is another destructive force in their marriage. Othello states that “Her name‚ that was as fresh [a]s Dian’s visage‚ is now begrim’d and black [a]s mine own face”. Therefore‚ her betrayal of him has caused him a loss of reputation‚ something that

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