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    Othello Paraphrase

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    | Enter OTHELLO‚ LODOVICO‚ DESDEMONA‚ EMILIA and attendants | OTHELLO‚ LODOVICO‚ DESDEMONA and EMILIA enter‚ with attendants. | | LODOVICOI do beseech you‚ sir‚ trouble yourself no further. | LODOVICOPlease‚ sir‚ don’t trouble yourself. | | OTHELLOOh‚ pardon me‚ ’twill do me good to walk. | OTHELLOI beg your pardon; walking will make me feel better. | | LODOVICOMadam‚ good night. I humbly thank your ladyship. | LODOVICOGood night‚ madam. Thank you. | | DESDEMONAYour honor is most welcome

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    Pre-AP English II Thematic Analysis March 25‚ 2011 Thematic Analysis One theme in William Shakespeare’s play Othello is that friends‚ if provoked‚ become irreparable enemies. Othello‚ the general of Venetian forces‚ has many advisors that he claims to know well and trust irrefutably. However‚ his paragon advisor‚ Iago‚ is not as loyal as he claims to be. He has received word that Othello slept with his wife Emilia‚ and he now seeks revenge. His plan to spread lies and rumors through the ranks

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    Analytical Essay Othello

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    death‚ and betrayal. All these themes are present in Othello. Most dominant‚ however‚ are manipulation and jealousy. Jealousy runs the characters’ lives in Othello from the beginning of the play‚ when Roderigo is jealous of Othello because he wishes to be with Desdemona‚ and to the end of the play‚ when Othello is furious with jealousy because he believes Cassio and Desdemona have been engaging in an affair‚ but manipulation the prominent action that fuels the jealousy within Othello. Some characters’

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    of trust‚ loyalty and honesty. In the play Othello‚ Shakespeare demonstrates these qualities through many of his characters to portray their deep friendship. However as the play progresses these friends turn into foes as many problems occur in their friendships and lead to many tragic events. The negative qualities that tore these friendships apart are distrust‚ selfishness and jealousy that led many of the characters to their tragedies. In the play Othello‚ Shakespeare demonstrates that there are

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    Misogyny Othello

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    degrades and controls Emilia‚ Iago also commonly insults females in general. Othello also shares his misogynistic views as he constantly hits Desdemona in public and later accuses her of sleeping with Cassio Act 5 scene 2 line 20 ’So sweet was ne’er so fatal’ This shows Desdemona’s sweetness has brought her to where she is now‚ leading to her own death because she has slept with another man‚ can also be seen as Othello describing his kisses as fatal as they will be followed by murder but Desdemona

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    Temptation In Othello

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    Othello In the world there are many forms of temptation. One form is evil. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare a very strong character plays the role of evil. From the outside looking in‚ Iago may seem like the good guy with all good intentions but as the play goes on and his plan unravels the evil side appears. Married to Iago‚ Emilia is faced with many challenges with Iago’s evil side. Starting off innocent and quiet Emilia has to find the courage to take a stand in her own life to save

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    Iago: the Evil in Othello

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    Iago doesn’t for the most part he just has a burning hatred for the world especially Othello. <br> <br>Iago is the whole reason there is any conflict in Othello . If he never had entered the play Othello would have married Desdimonia and they would have lived happily ever after. Right from the beginning of the play to the very end he causes conflicts. He is directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of: Othello Desdimona‚ Emilia‚ Cassio‚ and Roderigo. Which happen to be all of the main characters

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    affair with his lieutenant‚ Othello feels he must kill her. When Othello has the chance to his wife‚ he acts as we would with the desserts‚ reluctant but able to persuade himself to fulfil the deed. Othello uses Desdemona’s betrayal‚ his love for her‚ and justice to convince himself to murder Desdemona. Once Othello believes that Desdemona actually had an affair with Cassio‚ Othello wants her dead. He uses this will when he has the chance to kill her. He refers to her betrayal as “it” a sign that he

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    Deception In Othello

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    Shakespeare’s play‚ ’Othello’ and in Mike Nichols film‚ ’Primary Colours‚ present the Art of Deception through the characters of Iago and Jack Stanton. The era in which both texts are presented gives off a different reason why both characters use deception to gain what they are looking for‚ thus context plays an important role in how deception is presented‚ and affects both the meaning and values of each text. Whilst both texts portray deception as the driving force in their plots‚ the motives‚ methods

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    book is just that: a book telling the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster. This example illustrates the Treachery of Images‚ as explained by René Magritte (and Hazel on page 178). The theory states that an image of a thing is not that thing. It’s simply an image of that thing. Just like a book about a story is not the story itself‚ it’s a book about the story. Yeah‚ I had to Google that too. The Treachery of Images is a concept that comes up while Hazel and Gus are on vacation in Amsterdam. Perhaps I should

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