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    INTERNATIONAL LAW PROJECT WORK ON RACISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW SUBMITTED BY‚

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    ‘Jealously remains the ultimate corrupting force within action.’ To what extent do you agree with this? Within the play Othello‚ jealously remains the ultimate corrupting force‚ as it is through jealously that dramatic conflict occurs and the tragic events unfold. The consequences of jealously have a catalytic impact on the characters of the play and their mutual relationships. This is clearly demonstrated through the machiavellian villain of the play‚ Iago‚ whose actions and dialogue are driven

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    Discrimination In Othello

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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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    Othello‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ is a play about a multitude of topics. Stripped to the core it’s about subtle human prejudices and how we are motivated by them; how they turn the most superior war heroes to emotional wrecks that commit murder. In the play‚ relationships are one of the main factors and create a fuel for hatred. One of the first themes we come across is lying. At the beginning‚ we’re informed that Othello and Desdemona are wed. The protagonist‚ Iago and his companion Roderigo

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    one thing life did not bring upon us: racism. Racism‚ one of the deadliest diseases ever to roam the face of the earth‚ is one of the few inequities that man itself has created. Racism is the plague of the earth‚ brought on by only pure hatred. Why is it‚ with everything life already brings upon us‚ that we can’t all put aside the color of our skin? Not all people are racist. However‚ before we can have the chance to live in a world empty of racial hatred‚ we need to stop the "well‚ it’s not my

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    Jealousy; The Green-Eyed Monster Rationale: Having just finished Act 3 of Othello (by William Shakespeare) ‚ a motif stood out to me. The motif jealousy‚ and it can corrupt anyone‚ even a noble Moor with principles like Othello. While reading I realized how complicated Iago is as a character and how he lacks an origin to his jealousy‚ yet is convincing himself to carry out his evil doings  his ability to orchestrate a complicated interweaving of pre-planned scenarios. Iago ’s deception is

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    Shakespeare. This dramatic poem will take any reader on an emotional roller coaster‚ allowing them to feel the joys and heartache that are intertwined within every word. In Romeo and Juliet‚ two young teenagers fall completely in love‚ however‚ a rooted hatred runs deeply between their families. The Capulet’s and Montague’s despised each other so severely that they couldn’t look past it‚ and forbid Romeo and Juliet to be together. This hate soon leads to the death of both Romeo and Juliet. It may seem

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    Othello is a play which contains many conflicts between the characters. The main conflicts in ‘Othello’ are between friends and foes. Othello’s inner conflict‚ cultural and racial differences which lead to racial judgement and discrimination‚ to express these conflicts; Shakespeare uses many techniques such as soliloquies‚ dramatic irony‚ imagery foreshadowing and symbolism. Amongst the main characters there are many conflicts‚ however the main reason for most of the conflict if Iago and Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare Elizabethan drama refers to the plays produced while Queen Elizabeth reigned in England‚ from 1558 until 1603. It was during this time that the public began attending plays in large numbers. The opening of several good-sized playhouses was responsible for this increased patronage‚ the largest and most famous of which was the Globe theater (1599)‚ home to many of Shakespeare’s works. The most popular types of Elizabethan plays were histories of England’s rulers‚ but revenge dramas

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    dramatic conventions of revenge in Elizabethan theater. All revenge tragedies originally stemmed from the Greeks‚ who wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca who was Roman‚ basically set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. The two most famous English revenge tragedies written in the Elizabethan era were Hamlet‚ written by

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