English 122 Mrs. Ayer Suin Kim November‚ 26th.2013 Emilia Speaks Her Mind One of Shakespeare’s famous plays ‘Othello’ is about a black man who marries a white woman‚ and then murders his wife because of unfounded jealousy. The play also contains another dysfunctional marriage between Iago and Emilia‚ which also ends with the husband murdering his wife. Emilia‚ Iago’s wife‚ has never received love from her husband. In Act 4‚ Scene 3 line 95-115‚ Emilia’s speech is structured as if she experienced
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lies and Othello will be forced to believe him because he will be too submerged in doubt and suspicion to see the truth. In act 3‚ scene 3‚ when Cassion parts from Desdemona‚ Iago makes it appear as if Cassio “steal away so guilty-like”(Shakespeare‚ act 3‚ scene 3) because he did not want to be seen with Desdemona. While it appears really bad from Othello point of view‚ the reality of it is completely different. Cassio‚ who has been demoted‚ wishes to gain back his good will with Othello with Desdemona’s
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answers. F663 Exemplars June 2010 1 of 30 Script 1 OTHELLO/RAPE OF THE LOCK/SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL SCRIPT 3 (b) ‘Othello is a play about the desperate need for certainty.’ By considering the action and effects of the play‚ evaluate this view. Well developed and consistently detailed discussion of effects; remarkably sustained substance and subtlety in the use of AO2 OVERALL SCRIPT Band 6 58 Marks Grade A(*) Othello‚ one of Shakespeare’s four ‘great tragedies’‚ is a text with many
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Natalia Grube Othello Paper The tragedy of Othello was caused by the insecurities and changing character of Othello himself. Racism and the villainous Iago both contributed to the evolution of Othello’s character. G.K Hunter the author of “Othello and Colour Prejudice.” Discusses how the prejudices against Othello‚ both in the play and also the prejudices Shakespeare’s audience already conveyed towards darker skinned people‚ were framed to doom Othello from the start. Hunters article gives
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"If Othello didn’t begin as a play about race‚ history has made it one." The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan society in England in the sixteenth-century. Although Othello is set in Venice and Cyprus‚ the attitudes and values shared in the text are probably reflective of the attitudes and values of Shakespeare’s own
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Is the story‚ “Othello” Racist? When reading the play Othello‚ a modern day reader cannot help but wonder if the play is racist. After all‚ there are several places found throughout the story that reference derogatory terms towards people of African descent. Comments such as‚ “Blacker devil”(5.2. 131)‚ “an old black ram” (1.1.9)‚ and‚ “Moor are now making the beast with two backs” (1.1.7)‚ may leads the reader to believe that story is racist towards black people. However‚ this may not be true
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Jayna Kovel World Theatre Greg Justice 07 November 2013 The View Unnerving. That’s the only way to describe walking into a dimply lit black box theatre to realize that the actor you have come to watch…is watching you. He’s acting‚ yes‚ but the whole premise of “The View” could not have been more clearly stated as we sat down to the crackle and pop of white noise in the background. In the tiny theatre‚ I couldn’t have been more than ten feet from what we were soon to learn was the main character
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read to understand the struggle. But one of the most interesting pieces to display this issue is Othello by William Shakespeare. For Othello was a
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In What Way Would A Modern Audience React To The Way Race And Racism Is Portrayed In ’Othello’? In the Sixteenth century‚ as we see clearly from Othello and other works of both Shakespeare and Cinthio’s original version of Othello‚ race was a topic of great debate and discussion. Today‚ in the twenty-first century the debate retains its controversy and passion. However‚ attitudes towards race have taken a dramatic turn during the last century. In the developed world people are now living in an
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“O” is a 2001 movie re-telling one of Shakespeare’s major tragedies about the “dusky Moor”…“Othello.” It has been dubbed‚ “90210 with a body count.” The movie is not acted out with Shakespearian voices but it doesn’t soften any of the raw emotions.“O” uses modern hip language perfectly made for a high school audience‚ especially jocks. Because you can actually understand the words being spoken without the need to reach for a thesaurus as one typically needs to find the meaning(s) of words that appear
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