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    Weeping Willow: The Smothering of Desdemona’s Will in Othello Among William Shakespeare’s vast array of deeply flawed characters‚ Desdemona of Othello stands out as remarkably virtuous and pure of heart. Furthermore‚ Desdemona’s character initially displays a sense of independence and agency that is rare amongst other female characters in literature at the time that Othello was written. However‚ by the story’s end‚ Desdemona is a much more submissive and passive character‚ accepting her tragic

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    In the book “Othello” there are some characters that trust each other and some that don’t trust each other. There are also some that are manipulative so the question us can we ever really know the truth about a person. The way I see it is we cannot really trust a person. This is a reason on why we cannot trust a person is for example the character Iago. In the beginning of the story he says “O‚ sir‚ content you I follow him to serve my turn upon him” (Act 1‚ Scene 1‚ Line 40). Iago is friends with

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    successful men down on his knees? Jealousy? Mistrust? Deceit? … William Shakespeare’s Othello tells a tragic story of how jealousy and mistrust can rob a powerful man of his power. Due to the ever changing context of society throughout history‚ many more critical interpretations of the play Othello have been formed since the Elizabethan times. Throughout this book‚ you will find many differing interpretations of Othello. Two interesting interpretations to compare include : the ancient Aristotelian interpretation

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    disregard the honesty and strength many of the men of Othello display. Whilst Iago is completely duplicitous and deceitful‚ Cassio displays loyalty and integrity throughout the play. Othello’s nobility cannot be doubted at the beginning of the play‚ however as he descends into madness we see him lose all sense of reason and ultimately become a copy of him manipulator‚ in terms of language and irrationality. On the other hand‚ the females in Othello‚ all show integrity throughout

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    OTHELLO: JEALOUSY D. R. Godfrey [Godfrey examines the portrayal of jealousy in Othello‚ determining that it is the cause of evil in the play. The critic exposes the jealousy presented by several characters: Othello‚ Roderigo‚ Bianca‚ and Iago. He compares their irrational behavior to that of Leontes‚ the jealous husband of Hermoine in The Winter’s Tale‚ and asserts that each displays a form of sexual jealousy. Iago‚ however‚ exhibits "an all-encompassing jealousy directed not only against sexual

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    Course: International Relations MIDTERM ASSIGNMENT Essay topic: “Is the United States a hegemon in decline?” Lecturer: Mrs. Vu Hai Hoa Student: Nguyen Thuy Trang ID No.: 1206080077 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The 21st century is still young‚ but it has already presented the United States with a series of internal and external challenges. Since the demise of USSR in 1991‚ the world changed from bipolar with two great powers to unipolar with the United States as an unchallenged

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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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    relationships‚ or even in an intense argument‚ respect for someone else’s well being is a quality that will always facilitate the best possible outcome. In the play‚ Iago falsifies his friendship with Othello‚ and everyone else around him for that matter. Iago demonstrates his sinister intentions as he deceives Othello by saying‚ “but such a handkerchief- / I am sure it was your wife’s- did I see today / See Cassio wipe his beard with”(3.3.496-498). Iago is blatantly lying as he describes what he has supposedly

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    Goals are constantly pursued throughout life and are crucial to the overall satisfaction of being‚ but are often ambitiously pursued with only the end result in mind. In William Shakespeare’s plays‚ Othello and Macbeth‚ an underlying connection of the result of blind ambition is presented. Through the use of ambition for power‚ love‚ and mental satisfaction‚ Shakespeare demonstrates that regardless of the source of ambition‚ if it is pursued without regard to morality‚ it results in destruction.

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    Othello Essay William Shakespeare’s Othello tells a story of the tragic downfall of a man through jealousy and mistrust‚ influenced by the manipulative actions of another. Due to innumerable changes within society over time‚ it is inevitable that a wide range of critical interpretations and readings of the text will emerge. My personal interpretation of the play draws from the concepts of the traditional Aristotelian views of a tragedy. An Aristotelian interpretation concerns itself with whether

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