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of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

idle pleasures of these days. / Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous" (Shakespeare I i). In Othello Iago tells us, "And whats h...

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters house. In this scene, prior to Roderigo and Iagos disru...

immediately to fetch the handkerchief. Emilia, Desdemonas maid and Iagos wife, comments: 4. "Is not this man jealous?" (III.4.99)....

do not assume that he would be a man who was easily swayed against this woman he loves. But, as the play progresses we see his wea...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

black people were considered to be outsiders in the most profound sense of this word as they were associated in the public mind wi...

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

discern what his true motivation really is. He is vengeful and wants a particular job he did not get. He feels dispossessed and ev...

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...

is in seeing pompous buffoons made fools of, and lovers brought together. However, Aphra Behns play, though a comedy, also deals...

of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...

of Cassio. Cassio was given the position, by Othello, that Iago wanted and so Iago employs the usefulness of Cassio, pretending to...

to be successful. Iago does seem to make an impact on Roderigo at one point, however, when Roderigo claims imagines Desdemona and ...

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 ...

in the audience, because the audience members can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very b...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

describe the way in which society considers those who are different. The psychological construct of the Other is applied to the pe...

really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...

the others are Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear and all of them display a writer at the height of his powers. They have been popular ...

one of his most vexing. This paper discusses him in detail. Discussion Iago is a fascinating study in evil; he sets out to destro...

claiming that not only is Othello an outsider but akin to the devil, or an animal. It is not that he is just from a different coun...

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

a noble falls, he takes a lot of people with him. Thats true here, where Othellos suspicion results in his destruction, as well as...

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...