a tragic hero‚ and he has the basic elements that match him up to be a true hero defined by Aristotle. His stature‚ that of a tall‚ dark‚ African Moor‚ combined with his personal magnetism‚ assist him in gaining the respect and allegiance of the Venetian people and senators. Othello‚ being a soldier all his life‚ is seen as a very honorable man. His title alone‚ governor-general‚ presents an air of nobility‚ confidence‚ and strength. The title defines someone who is held in tremendously high esteem
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and soon popes were reviving its glories in fine architecture. The ruins of ancient Rome supplied the models for new buildings. Venice. Its high-point took place during the Medieval period and continued in the Renaissance times. Located in the Venetian lagoon‚ protected by a belt of islands. Geological Florence. The quarries of Tuscany yielded ample fine stone. Siena supplied of yellow and white marbles. From Carrara came the famed white marble- The Luna marble of Roman times- and also
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rare type of character in a tragedy‚ a strong‚ outspoken woman who also happens to be good and innocent. Her initial actions in the story are very bold‚ not only does she goes against her father by marrying Othello‚ but she also shows herself in the Venetian senate chamber to testify in support for her love of Othello and her wishes to accompany him on his military campaign. She shows no fear of public speech or speaking her mind to others above her. Many early modern texts‚ however‚ bind women to the
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in the manner of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Though Boucher remained in Lemoynes studio only a short time‚ he probably derived his love of delicately voluptuous forms and his brilliant color palette from the older masters penchant for mimicking the Venetian decorative painters. Marie-Louise O’ Murphy was the youngest child of an Irish army officer. She was a celebrated French beauty‚ one of the younger mistresses of Louis XV and the model for Francois Boucher “The Resting Girl”. The youngest
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Desdemona was unfaithful. The task of manipulating Othello was made easier by the fact that he had started to clearly show signs that he was feeling inadequate‚ especially living in this white-dominated society. It seems as though a general in the Venetian army would be more aware of such facades like the one Iago uses to hide his cool malignity with‚ the side of him that the audience is able to see in his soliloquies‚ but this is not
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Tragedy involves the downfall of a hero as a result of his tragic flaw. How true is this? It is not simply the existence of a tragic flaw that is the sole causation of the demise of the hero and other significant characters but rather the interplay between the negative externalities and the hero’s actions as a result of his tragic flaws which does so. In Shakespeare’s Elizabethan tragedy Othello‚ Othello’s hamartia arises from a magnified sense of jealousy‚ hubris and misplaced trust brought
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Athena for her help in defeating the Persians. Lord Elgin removed the relics from the temple as a way of preserving them. After all they have been described as being among the greatest of all Greek art. After the battle between the Turks and the Venetians the inside of the Parthenon had been blown out and “the residents helped themselves to the ancient marble and used it for private building material” (Babcock‚ p82). It is clear that if the sculptures had not been removed to Brittan they probably
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Lee’s search for his identity as a Chinese-American‚ and the origin and value of the Indigo. The Indigo originated in India where it was turned into an industry in 300 BC‚ and then it was later discovered and later spread around the world by the Venetian explorer Marco Polo. Throughout the distribution of this plant it replaced the current blue dye of Europeans called woad. It soon became one of the most valued plants in all of Asia. Furthermore‚ Lee states the importance of Indigo by referring to
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The Effect of Human Capital Flow on FDI Technological Advances : An Empirical Study Based on Absorptive Capacity Abstract Human capital flow is an important factor that affecting the “absorptive capacity” of host countries‚ it is of great significance to strengthen the host countries’ absorptive capacity of FDI technology spillovers. Taking China for example‚ this paper made an empirical analysis about the effect of human capital flows on FDI technological advances‚ we selected the number of foreign
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Cultural Materialism^ Othello‚ aed the Politics of Plausibility Alan Sinfield Alan Sinfield’s Faultlines (1992) is one of the best examples of Cultural Materialism at work. This chapter on Shakespeare’s Othello is an especially forceful rendering of the Cultural Materialist argument that texts are not simple registers of social power. Rather‚ they must necessarily harbor dissident‚ fractious energies that undermine the sense of cohesive certainty that ruling elites seek to impose on a culture
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