Family (In Law) relationships will fail due to both parties acting evilly and irrationally because of jealousy. Jealousy can cause the destruction of a good father daughter relationship causing a father to betray his daughter. Desdemona and his daughter had a good relationship because Barbantio says‚ "I therefore vouch again/ That with some mixtures powerful o’er the blood‚/ Or with some dram‚ conjured this effect‚ He wrought upon her" (Act 1 scene 3‚ line 103-105). This shows that
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Inconsiderate‚ duplicitous‚ and mysterious are only a few words to describe the antagonists in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and William Shakespeare’s Othello. Both Mr. Harvey and Iago demonstrate key characteristics of a sociopath. The main attribute of a sociopath is that he or she can commit a heinous crime‚ such as murder‚ and not feel the slightest bit of remorse. This is precisely what these two villains did. Mr. Harvey‚ using his persuasion and charm‚ lured Susie into his subversive
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amount of trust‚ which when manipulated‚ ultimately leads to his downfall. Trust is an honourable trait but in excess can be detrimental. In Othello‚ Iago uses several techniques of manipulation to shift Othello’s absolute trust from his wife‚ Desdemona‚ to himself. The first of these techniques is convincing Othello that he cares much about him. The lie‚ “My lord you know I love you” is used to present a sense of loyalty and friendship which manipulates Othello into holding Iago in higher regards
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Barbantio’s emotions‚ particularly knowing that Barbantio holds a racist viewpoint. A predominant fear during that time period was colored men sexually corrupting the white women of the Venetian society‚ which would explain why Othello’s relationship with Desdemona is described in
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Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists used his theatrical convention to evoke the inwardness of their characters‚ a soliloquy provides the audience with accurate access to the character’s innermost thoughts and we learn more about a character than could ever be gathered from the action of the play alone. In ’Othello’‚ both the hero and the villain speak in soliloquy. Iago‚ the villain‚ speaks his soliloquies first (Othello’s occur towards the end of the play)‚ drawing the audience in as he outlines
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This can be illustrated from the beginning through the character iago. Iago is evil and manipulative and uses animal imagery from the very starting of the play. Iago decides to inform Brabantio regarding his daughter‚ Desdemona‚leaving him and marrying the Moor‚ who is Othello. iago says to him‚ “…You’ll have your daughter covered with a barbary horse." Iago desires Othello to seem more evil‚ and needs Brabantio to take action against Othello. Iago’s immorality is seen
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with present him as having power and control in the play and as a result his desires become even more dangerous. His manipulative nature is emphasised by the number of “asides” Iago has throughout Othello such as when he is watching Othello and Desdemona together and says “O you are well tuned now! But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music‚ as honest as I am.” This is an example of the dramatic irony that is used throughout by Iago‚ as the audience knows of his plans to ruin Othello and Desdemona’s
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“My lord is not my lord‚ nor should I know him were he in favor as in humor altered” (3‚ 4‚ 119-120) Throughout Shakespeare’s play ‘Othello’ we observe Othello’s identity and reputation fall to pieces‚ the way Othello sees himself and the way others perceive him is transformed completely. His qualities of a decisive‚ dignified and proud man at the beginning of the play are later overtaken by jealousy‚ rage and irrational thinking. His life and himself as he knows it is destroyed by love and jealousy
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and it is this lack of confidence in himself that allows Iago to persuade him that Desdemona is cheating on him. IAGO Even now‚ now‚ very now‚ an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. Arise‚ arise; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell‚ Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you. Arise I say! (s1.a1.l9) | Iago uses racist slurs when he wakens Brabantio with the news that his daughter‚ Desdemona (a white Venetian)‚ has eloped with Othello (an older‚ black man). When Iago says
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In Shakespeare’s play "Othello"‚ the female characters‚ Desdemona‚ Bianca and Emilia‚ are presented to us in a variety of ways through dialogue‚ reactions‚ relationships‚ and their actions. Shakespeare conjures up sympathy for women‚ especially in the scenes where they are accompanied by men. Desdemona is presented by Shakespeare in a somewhat contradictory fashion. Although she is "half the wooer"‚ she is victimised by almost all of the male characters. Her own father Brabantio
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