impact on one’s life. Shakespeare understood the crucial effect of friends and usually authored his plays around the fundamental impact of others. Shakespeare’s Othello possesses a premise of one’s choice in friends supplementary to his other works. Shakespeare’s play Othello emphasizes the importance of good choices in friends through Othello‚ Cassio‚ and Rodrigo’s vulnerability to trust Iago. Iago is not a traditional villain for he plays a unique and complex role. Unlike most villains in tragic
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English Speech – Othello ATTENTION! ATTENTION! Everyone gather around! I’ve just finished writing the script based on a Shakespearean play for our next BIG production. There are no happy ever after endings. Uh? Hey Garbutt don’t give me that face! Let’s get more realistic. Movies end in happy endings but does life end happily? Yeah! That’s what I thought! So how many of yous are up for it? One.. Two.. Three.. Four.. Hmm only four? Allow me to tell you more and I’m sure by the end of this you’ll
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of the “green-eyed monster”‚ which both Othello and Iago will nurture. Iago’s also gives Cassio “free and honest” advice about asking Desdemona for his position back after his fall from grace‚ showing again the dramatic irony Shakespeare portrays. Iago also continues to assure Desdemona that Othello’s sudden change in mood has nothing to do with Desdemona herself‚ but instead to do with state business. This further serves him in his plan for Othello’s downfall. Poison imagery by Shakespeare refers
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Othello trusted and was deceived by Iago who was suppose to be his best friend. Also he was wronged by his own ego and self centeredness which helped Iago with his evil scheme. If Othello kept to himself and didn’t trust all of his companions he would not have been so easily deceived by Iago. Othello being the general should have foreseen this and been more wise to the fact that people were seeking to overrule him. Othello’s main issues‚ jealousy and gullibility‚ ultimately causes his downfall in
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Prof McGee November 23‚ 2013 Proper Punishment and Justice in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex Within Sophocles’ play‚ Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus’ destiny was to marry his biological mother and murder his biological father. Oedipus pointlessly tries to change his fate‚ but was powerless in changing anything. With no control over his destined fate‚ unaware of his family history‚ and unconscious of who his birth parents were‚ Oedipus is guiltless in killing his father and marrying his very own mother. Justice
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Shakespeares “Othello‚ The Moor of Venice” play‚ there are several motifs of power‚ jealousy‚ contempt‚ and even well-disguised hatred. There are also underlying innuendoes in the story that suggest or prompt the reader to feel the same as the character that they are reading about and who they are speaking of. Upon reading the opening act‚ as Iago speaks with Roderigo‚ there are hints of Iago’s jealousy toward Cassio for being appointed as Officer‚ and a slight contempt for Othello as well. Even
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What factors contributed to the downfall of Othello? Othello’s downfall was a resultant of a combination of interdepended factors. Especially Othello’s inherent flaws of jealousy and gullibility nurtured by his trusted ensign‚ Iago‚ were an important factor leading to the cause of his downfall. His interactions and relationships with the numerous characters throughout the play were also specifically important. In addition‚ Othello’s insecurities about his obvious differences also play an important
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King Oedipus and Othello are two characters in two different plays from the same names. ’King Oedipus’ was written around c.425 and is a work of Greek tragedy. ’Othello’ was written by Shakespeare in the early 1600’s and also shares the common theme of being a tragedy with ’King Oedipus.’ Both King Oedipus and Othello are the main characters in their plays and throughout the plays face challenges to overcome their tragedies. Both King Oedipus and Othello are natural leaders & at the beginning are
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non-dramatic text offered on the module‚ (an extract from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Literary Remains‚) and show how it might help us understand Othello. The extract presents a sustained attack by Coleridge on Shakespeare for his lack of realism in the ’monstrous’ depiction of a marriage between a ’beautiful Venetian girl‚’ and a ’veritable negro‚’ in Othello. He sees Shakespeare’s transformation of a ’barbarous negro’ into a respected soldier and nobleman of stature as ’ignorant’‚ since at the time
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PROLOGUE OEDIPUS My children‚ scions of the ancient Cadmean line‚ what is the meaning of this thronging round my feet‚ this holding out of olive boughs all wreathed in woe? The city droops with elegaic sound and hymns with pails of incense hang. I come to see it with my eyes‚ no messenger’s. Yes‚ I whom men call Oedipus the Great. [He turns to the PRIEST] Speak‚ Elder‚ you are senior here. Say what this pleading means‚ what frightens you‚ what you beseech. Coldblooded would I be‚ to be unmoved
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