Desdemona ■ "She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d" - Othello ■ "Oh she deceives me" - Brabantio ■ "The heavens forbid but that our loves and comforts should increase even as our days grow" - Desdemona ■ "Oh thou Othello thou was so good" - Desdemona ■ "Be thou assured‚ good Cassio‚ I will do" - Desdemona ■ "If I do vow a friendship I’ll perform it to the last article" - Desdemona ■ "Where should I lose that handkerchief Emilia?" - Desdemona ■ "I have not deserved this" - Desdemona ■ "She has
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How was power and authority shown in Churchill’s speech? Winston Churchill’s speech ‘we shall fight them on the beaches’ is one of the defining speeches during the second world war. Power and authority is shown in several ways. Churchill’s speech is confident. He is trying to motivate the British people. Within the speech there are several persuasive techniques used making the speech powerful. Churchill uses repetition‚ not volume. He builds and expands on his theme of "We shall" to
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What is the play about? Othello themes include: * Jealousy (the sexual jealousy of Othello‚ and Iago’s professional envy of Cassio * Appearance versus reality (including honesty/dishonesty‚ loyalty/disloyalty) * Reputation * Public versus private concerns * Racism (including notions of alienation and belonging) Cultural materialist – Argues the play offers a subversive critique of the social and political beliefs of Shakespeare’s time e.g. racism and sexism seen as inherent
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31/1/15 How does Shakespeare present conflict in Acts: 1-3? Throughout the entirety of Shakespeare’s “Othello”‚ there are many scenes of conflict between the characters and Shakespeare presents these conflicts in a number of different ways. The most notable conflicts are between the main characters: Othello‚ Iago and Desdemona‚ among others like Roderigo‚ Cassio‚ Brabantio‚ Emilia and Bianca. Firstly‚ one way that Shakespeare presents conflict is making Othello a black person in a European
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MAJOR ENGLISH WRITERS ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY OTHELLO FAJRI KURNIAWAN 1010733020 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF HUMANITY ANDALAS UNIVERSITY PADANG 2013 Background of the author William Shakespeare is the most famous writer of plays in the English language. He was born in 1564‚ in Stratford upon-Avon and died on the 23rd of April‚ 1616. He wrote thirty-nine plays and hundreds of poems. His father William was a successful local businessman and his mother Mary
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In Shakespeare’s Othello‚ the protagonist adopts an identity that conforms to Venetian society and defies racial expectations brought forth by his Venetian peers. His simplistic perception of himself as a Venetian man‚ unconcerned with racial stereotypes‚ conveys his noble virtues to be greater than that of his white Venetian counterparts’. However‚ Othello’s internalization of the racial prejudice‚ as instigated by Iago‚ is his ultimate demise. In the beginning of the play‚ Othello demonstrates an
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Throughout act three of Shakespeare’s Othello‚ the conflict between opposing characters unfolds a complex set of emotions revealing the concept of the lesser “other” to the audience. Shakespeare does not explicitly state that Othello is an “other”‚ but references to his culture and ethnicity implies that Othello‚ while highly respected‚ is still of inferiority is some regards. The idea that Othello is inferior to his peers is rather ambiguous and can vary among interpretations. To kick start the
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Othello is a highly conflicted character which exacerbates his complexity as the protagonist. Where he struggles with which identity he should embrace in this Venetian Christian society. The two different conflicting sides of Othello: The Christianized Moor: [Symbol]Based on Anthony’s perspective‚ we learn that Othello is hypocritical in nature. In the context of ‘magic’‚ When Othello was accused as having used ‘black magic’ to seduce Desdemona‚ he attempts to be sophisticated by depicting
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Racism is something something we ’ve all witnessed. Many people fail to believe that race isn’t a biological category‚ but an artificial classification of people with no scientifically variable facts. In other words‚ the distinction we make between races has nothing to do with genetic characteristics. Race was created socially‚ primarily by how people perceive ideas and faces we are not quite used to. The definition of race all depends on where and when the word is being used. In U.S. history‚ the
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Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our schools workforces‚ and anywhere else where social lives are occurring. It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades ago but it sure has not gone away. Racism very much exists and it is about time that people need to start thinking about the instigations and solutions to this matter. Many people believe that it depends on if a person was brought into the world as a racist or
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