Depending on cultural differences and upbringing a text will have different impacts on the audience. Like any great piece of literature‚ William Shakespeare’s plays deal with timeless concerns that have the ability to be adapted and presented to remain relevant for modern audiences. Shakespeare’s Othello is a Jacobean play written in a time of racist attitudes towards foreigners and sexist attitudes to women. This revenge tragedy follows the protagonist Othello‚ a black army general who is manipulated
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TEEL An individual’s sense of belonging is determined not only by their own choices but also by the attitudes of others. Essay draft: Belonging brings to our attention the potential that all individuals are affected by not only their choices but the attitudes of others. The Notion of time allows for an individual’s perception to change and in-turn‚ form different attitudes towards people as we see through the characters in Rainbows End by Jane Harrison and Othello by William Shakespeare. An individual’s
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Name: Adeisha Pierre Class: U6:3 Subject: Literature OTHELLO ACT 1 Lighting is important as it extends Shakespeare’s thematic concerns with the lightness and darkness of character and skin. Play begins in darkness. Entirety of Act one is in darkness. Critic: Norman Sanders: “The darkness helps to reveal Iago’s character because it is set in the night and it highlights the dark and devilish nature of his character.” The darkness feeds Iago’s malicious nature. Textual evidence: Iago:
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While Poison Ivy takes its basic plot from Othello‚ it draws its influences from a variety of teen comedies‚ such as Mean Girls. I chose to change Othello into a modern day high school dramedy with gender-swapped characters because the themes in the play easily transfer to issues teenage girls deal with in today’s society. As Mean Girls shows‚ teenage girls often fight with words and rumors rather than with violence‚ and that is exactly what Iago does in the play. Unlike many of Shakespeare’s
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Analyse the Methods Iago Uses to Persuade Other Characters in Othello to his Point of View. Iago uses some excellent‚ persuasive methods to deceive his characters into thinking that his point of view is correct. Iago’s plots are made to sync in with the general design of the play‚ in that it is upon these contrived situations that all the tragedy is born from. The characteristic feature of all of Iago’s plots is that they seek to undermine attitudes and positions of others. He either plants seeds
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still vital in understanding the culture and history behind the play. A student must understand the implications that Shakespeare originally intended to be understood by the audience. There are three main characters in the play. These women are Desdemona‚ Emilia‚ and Bianca. These women all show true‚ strong affection to the main men in their lives.
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who has stolen and raped Brabantio’s daughter. In calling Othello names like "an old black ram" (1.1.97)‚ "the devil" (1.1.100)‚ and "a Barbary horse" (1.1.125)‚ Iago depicts Othello as evil and dirty. Brabantio announces that he would rather that Desdemona was with Roderigo than the Moor‚ when he says‚ "O‚ would you had had her!" (1.1.198). From this first scene‚ the audience gets a very negative impression of Othello--one that differs greatly from the second impression. In the second scene‚ when
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If Cassio is alive‚ Iago will live in fear because Othello is capable of telling Cassio that Iago addressed the rumors of Desdemona cheating with Cassio. Iago’s jealousy has grown bigger because at the beginning of the play‚ he wanted to exact revenge on Othello‚ but now he is betraying his own friend‚ Roderigo. Dramatic irony is displayed because the audience knows more than
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bragging and telling her fantastical lies. To love him still for prating—let not thy discreet heart think it. Her eye must be fed; and what delight shall she have to look on the devil? In this small bit of lines‚ Iago rumors that othello’s wife desdemona‚ proclaims untruth of her love for othello. He goes on and says she thinks he is hideous and how she cannot stand to look at his face. He introduces the idea of her trying to find a new‚ hot‚ young man to be with instead of an ugly devil like othello
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seems smooth. Under the surface‚ though‚ the transition has not been nearly as complete or total as it seems. What proved to be Othello’s downfall is one of the very trophies of just how accepted into local cultural he has become: his Venetian wife Desdemona. Wily Iago uses the cultural background that Othello is not familiar with as a springboard for dissention Othello’s assimilation into the culture was not complete because he
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