Evaluate the ways in which Shakespeare’s representation manipulates his audience and provokes insights into the text you have studied. William Shakespeare wrote many of his famous plays during his ‘great tragic period’‚ he wrote them with an aim to not only entertain his audience but to educate them through a social and political reflection using literary and staging techniques. Othello was in approximately 1603‚ to do exactly this. Shakespeare was known for pushing the boundaries and this play
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and ultimately good versus bad. Racial ‘otherness’ is a crucial part of the text; it is with this that Shakespeare crafts a journey in which Othello is initially presented proud‚ with dignity and respect‚ then painfully contorted into the mould that Iago has created‚ eventually turning Othello’s ethnicity into his primary vulnerability for psychological attack. Themes of black and white are continuously entwined within the play‚ as they build layer upon layer of textual irony. Conflict occurs on two
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play‚ Othello is depicted as being distant from most of the issues that concern him. Roderigo and Iago refer‚ quite ambiguously‚ to Othello as “he” or “him” in the majority of the first scene. When it becomes clear that they are talking about Othello‚ they still do not refer to him by his name‚ but rather‚ address him with a series of racial epithets. This is distinctly seen in Act I‚ Scene I when Roderigo and Iago are beneath Brabantio’s window and refer to Othello as the “the Moor”‚ “the thick-lips”
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Modern Media and Literature: Iago vs. Ingrid Robert South‚ an English poet once said "All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice‚ and falsehood passing from words into things."(1) The art of being skilled in rhetoric can either be a positive or negative gift. However‚ when jealousy and vengeance intermix with the skill‚ its effects can become detrimental. The effects will begin to take a psychological and emotional toll on a person‚ as it advances
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Othello is interwoven with betrayal and treachery‚ forcing bonds of trust‚ love‚ and loyalty to get destroyed. The play Othello revolves around two conflicting characters: the scheming‚ manipulative Iago and the honorable moor‚ Othello. Despite the fact that these men are completely opposite in character‚ Iago commands such persuasive powers that he begins to affect Othello’s thinking and his perceptions of those close to him. After examining Shakespeare’s Othello‚ it is clear that many of the acts of
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His ability to manipulate an authority figure so easily that he is not slightly detected as being duplicitous is very astounding to me. In addition‚ I understood Brabantio’s frantic reaction when confronting Othello about their relationship because he was trying to be a
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a street in Venice‚ in the midst of an argument between Roderigo‚ a rich man‚ and Iago. Roderigo has been paying Iago to help him in his suit to Desdemona. But Roderigo has just learned that Desdemona has married Othello‚ a general whom Iago begrudgingly serves as ensign. Iago says he hates Othello‚ who recently passed him over for the position of lieutenant in favor of the inexperienced soldier Michael Cassio. Unseen‚ Iago and Roderigo cry out to Brabanzio that his daughter Desdemona has been
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“What a full fortune does the thick lips owe” from Roderigo describing Othello with the racist term “thick-lips” used to describe those of a darker skin colour. Derogatory terms such as this are seen universally in today’s modern society. Jealousy is a recurring theme in Shakespeare’s play ‘Othello’. The main antagonist ‘Iago’ is often seen talking to himself explaining as to why he feels the need to manipulate and feel hatred towards Othello. Iago feels jealous towards Othello seen in the quote “I
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Beautiful Disaster Shakespearean scholar M.R. Ridley suggests that the theme of Othello centers on the conflict between “reason and instinct.” There is main reason of why did Iago go to Othello accusing his wife of cheating. And the instinct Othello had to kill his wife Desdemona due to these accusations. Shakespeare has many underlying and reoccurring themes throughout as well. One major theme is that of betrayal and loyalty. During the entire play‚ every character is either loyal to‚ or betrays
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Scene I? Iago has been passed over for a promotion. Cassio got the promotion to Lieutenant even though Iago had more time in service as a soldier. Cassio got the promotion over Iago because his learning included theory and strategy whereas Iago’s did not. 2. Who was Brabantio‚ and why did Iago and Roderigo awaken him in the middle of the night? Brabantio was Desdemona’s father. Iago and Roderigo awaken him to tell him of Desdemona’s marriage to Othello. 3. Why did Iago leave Roderigo at Brabantio’s
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