In the tragedy Othello‚ Shakespeare relinquishes the power to Iago‚ the playwright within the theatrical work‚ to invent the storyline. With this mastery‚ Iago devotes his time conspiring against Othello and Desdemona by using a handkerchief‚ a symbol of Othello’s mysterious past and his exoticness. Othello’s profusion of passion and trust catalyzes his collapse. Othello‚ a North African‚ and Cassio‚ a wealthy Venetian‚ do not foresee Iago to exploit their traits and turn these assets into flaws
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William Shakespeare’s play “Othello” a man named Iago hates and is jealous of the protagonist Othello because Othello has not promoted him to position of Lietunant‚ so he decides to try and kill Othello. However‚ he first convinces Roderigo to help him because Roderigo is in love with Othello’s wife Desdemona and Iago promises that he can get him together with Desdemona. With Roderigo’s help‚ Iago is able to plot a series of events which eventually leads to convincing Othello that Desdemona is having
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Discuss and evaluate the view of the concept of Justice in relation to Othello and two supplementary texts. Justice is to live in a society that is fair to everyone‚ were everyone’s human rights are met and were everyone has equal opportunity to succeed. The concept of justice is portrayed rather unevenly in Othello and does not prevail as the villain‚ Iago‚ is still alive while his ‘victims’ are not. Also in my supplementary texts the balance of justice is uneven. One of my supplementary texts
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I feel that one of my greatest strengths is not getting involved in other people’s cattiness and drama. I have always been one to listen when a friend needs someone to talk to and I always tried to be understanding‚ but I always hated seeing people others try to take sides in arguments. In my experience this is how a lot of people lose friends and how clicks are started. In high school I was able to be friends with all different kinds of people with no problem‚ whether they were jocks‚ preps‚ or
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racism provides the background for Othello’s first appearance. For Iago Othello is "an old black ram" (I.i.88)‚ "the devil" (I.i.91)‚ and a "Barbary horse" (I.i.lll); the consum-mation of his marriage is a making of "the beast with two backs" (I.i.115-16). Roderigo‚ who shares Iago’s disgust‚ speaks of Desde-mona’s "gross
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The Judgement of Sin in The Scarlet letter Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is an exciting romance novel. Hester Prynne had just committed adultery and is forced to put a scarlet letter A on her chest. She suffers punishment at the hands of the townsfolk‚ her husband‚ and the rules of puritan religion. Hawthorne shows us how people judge quickly when others sin‚ but forget quickly when they do the same. Hawthorne uses imagery to show that there can sometimes be good at the end of a dark
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The Judgements of Man Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a fiction monster story. This story is a frame story and with it comes many themes. One remains true throughout the story and even to this day is do not judge a book by its cover. This theme is scene through the reaction of Victor Frankenstein‚ the DeLacey family‚ the children‚ and Robert Walton to the monster. When Victor Frankenstein made the monster his first reaction was “Beautiful! – Great God!” (35). In this moment he was proud and then
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of money to spy on Othello for him‚ since he wishes to take Othello’s girlfriend‚ Desdemona as his own. Roderigo fears that Iago has not been telling him enough about Desdemona and that this proves Iago’s real loyalty is to Othello not him. Iago explains his hatred of Othello for choosing Cassio as his officer or lieutenant and not him as he expected. To regain Roderigo’s trust‚ Iago and Roderigo inform Brabantio‚ Desdemona’s father of her relationship with Othello‚ the "Moor" which enrages
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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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Write Up On Othello: Othello as an Outsider Shakespeare’s Othello‚ written in approximately 1603‚ is a tragic play that centralises around the role of Othello‚ the Moor of Venice. Throughout the play‚ a notion that is consistently evident is that of “the outsider”. In Othello‚ many characters are in some way outsiders. Each character devises their own unique way to rid themselves of this “outsider” status‚ whether it be by marriage‚ gaining strength or through means of manipulation. As persistently
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