Othello is tragedy written by William Shakespeare‚ that demonstrates the power and strength of reputation. The play describes how Othello and Desdemona attempt to build a life together‚ disregarding their difference in age and race. Although soon after their marriage‚ an envious Iago uses cunning lies to sabotages their once healthy relationship. Reputation plays a vital role in this play; it enables or restricts certain characters‚ inevitably opening the doors to the tragic ending. Iago uses
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A Miller Prof. Gould ENG 262 12-3-11 Recognition and Reversal: Othello Aristotle classifies both recognitions and reversals as the greatest point of tragedy in a play or story. Recognitions and reversals are consistently used to develop character‚ advance the plot‚ and get a reaction of pity and fear from the audience. Recognition is the act of realization or knowledge or feeling that someone or something present has been encountered before. Reversals
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Powerplay. This can be examined through the relationships of characters: being Othello‚ Iago‚ Roderigo and Desdemona. Iago’s relationship with Othello is where the clearest examples of Powerplay can be viewed. Iago maintains an overarching power over Othello in the play. Iago is successful in manipulating both the truth and Othello‚ describing Casio’s departure from his meeting with Desdemona: "that he would steal away so guilty like‚ seeing you coming". Iago’s tremendous gift with language allows
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Venice in the midst of the war between Venice and Turkey. The story first begins during an argumentative conversation between Roderigo and Iago—the villain. The conversation touched base on what their next move would be now that Roderigo’s love—Desdemona‚ has married the protagonist dubbed as Othello. Therefore Iago is more than willing to help Roderigo separate the two of them for personal issues that are not yet mentioned at the beginning of the story. This evidently led to an evil plot stemming
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manipulates to his own ends. * Othello’s feelings of insecurity are certainly not unjustified. Everyone around him‚ even the one he loves‚ still see him to be- and refer to him as- a moor. Indeed Desdemona herself admits that she “saw Othello’s visage in his mind” (I.ii). This implies that Desdemona was not initially attracted to Othello and had to look past his looks in order to fall in love with him. * Brabantio also alludes to Desdemona’s initial repulsion of Othello when he remarks in
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‘tupping’‚ which is the language of sheep farmers and suggests that Othello is considered an animal by some characters. A further example of the usage of animal imagery by Shakespeare is in Act 1‚ scene 3‚ when Othello calls for Desdemona to speak for him. “Fetch Desdemona.” In this quote‚ ‘fetch’ implies a dog‚ therefore explaining that women are also treated as unequally in the play. When we first see Othello‚ he is wearing a black hood‚ which shows darkness and magic and symbolises his mysterious
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Shakespearean story of “Othello”. The mechanics of envy and hatred can be portrait and analyzed in some of its characters like Iago and Othello. The main plot of this novel is the desire of Iago to ruin the marriage of Othello and his beloved wife Desdemona. The actual motives of Iago for wanting to ruin the marriage are not totally assured. One reason that can be speculated for his feeling of hatred and envy towards Othello is the fact that he suspected that Emilia‚ his wife‚ committed adultery with
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accused as having used ‘black magic’ to seduce Desdemona‚ he attempts to be sophisticated by depicting himself as a devout Christian in a Venetian Christian society‚ by stating loftily that “he is above such primitive traffic and belief”. In comparison‚ Othello portrays himself to believe in magic in front of Desdemona‚ even though he had initially denied it in front of Brabantio. As illustrated in Othello saying “There’s magic in the web of it” to Desdemona His insecurity stems from the fact that
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Othello has no middle range and his emotions and actions are extreme. At the beginning of the play he is competently in love and passionate with his ‘Sweet Desdemona’. In the first two acts‚ Othello shows his exaggerated love for Desdemona‚ by putting his life at risk and eloping with her. Act I Scene III “I won his daughter…” This shows us that Desdemona is his‚ as if his taking his father’s place and it’s time for him to take care and love her. Othello’s vulnerability is also very severe; it plays a huge
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Summary Act 1‚ Scene 1: Venice‚ A Street at night. Iago complains to Roderigo about Othello giving the promotion to Cassio. They go to Brabantio’s house and claim his daughter has run off to marry Othello. Roderigo and Brabantio go and search for Desdemona. Scene 2: Venice‚ outside the Sagittary. Cassio tells Othello the Senate needs him to go to Cyprus to fight the Turks. Brabantio finds Othello and accuses him of stealing his daughter. They decide to ask the Duke’s opinion. Scene 3: Venice‚ the
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