Essays 91 - 120
In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...
In eighteen pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare's puns evoke irony, humor, and eroticism in The Taming of the Shrew, As You...
This 9 page paper examines the way in which three different directors approach Shakespeare. It looks at Kenneth Branagh's producti...
he is black, Othello is often referred to in derogatory terms such as "the thick-lips" (I.i.66); an "old black ram" (I.i.88); and ...
is in seeing pompous buffoons made fools of, and lovers brought together. However, Aphra Behns play, though a comedy, also deals...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages the theme of betrayal as it is depicted in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet is discussed....
of dark-skinned people was based on the stereotypes perpetuated by the fact that most people they encountered with dark sin, very ...
well lead him into trouble. He is not a particularly observant man, nor an introspective one. He can be very imaginative and highl...
in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...
In five pages this paper considers marginalization as featured in English plays William Shakespeare's Othello and Aphra Behn's The...
remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...
fact that her opposition to her father by eloping with the much-older Othello reveals her internal strength, which is comparable t...
Therefore, the conclusion is that he is not the devil, but a man who behaves in a manner that we would call devilish or satanic. H...
he doubts her, believing the words of others, one can see that he is a very insecure man where his love is concerned. In the cas...
as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...
woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...
really be proven wrong, and the only thing that Othello has to go on is really the word of his wife who he ultimately disbelieves....
at war with the Turks, that not all of Othellos men are loyal to him, and that there remains a great deal of cultural suspicion ab...
In six pages this paper examines the patriarchal oppression Desdemona experiences in the tragic play Othello by William Shakespear...
possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...
connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...
to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...
Othellos stories that she would fall in love with this dark soldier. Furthermore, Desdemona has always been a meek and gentle daug...
with trouble as he holds Desdemonas handkerchief. Bianca notes it and states: "O Cassio, whence came this? This is some token from...
a hundred times Wood me to steal it; but she so loves the token, For he conjured her she should ever keep it, That she reserves it...
upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...
that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...
speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...
so heavily reliant on the patriarchal system. She is passive and obedient, indicating that she easily goes along with the society,...
In five pages this paper contrast hero weaknesses with the villains in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Othello, Richard II, and...