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run IMC campaigns, here there is more than just a common theme and message, it is the same type of massage with the same values th...
and Othellos skin color. Othello is a Moor and is dark skinned while Iago is an ordinary Venetian. This is something that comes up...
lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...
flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...
actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...
forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...
perception and myth, was a place characterized by both barbarianism and exoticism, inhabited by wild beasts and by people with env...
a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...
a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...
biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...
also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...
no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...
differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...
that is perverted by the subterfuge and overt evil of Iago. Examining the character of Iago is enlightening to anyone who has ever...
my cold blood, I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me" (Much Ado About...
of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...
for the Moor, and he does so with artful and apparent reluctance. He plants the seed of doubt for Othello without ever maki...
or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...
and situations in black and white terms. Therefore, he is less tolerant of sin and more judgmental then his Danish counterpart. Wh...
of his own standing among his peers would have ignored or challenged Iago. But Othello fully agrees with Iagos voiced concern that...
soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...
military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian, was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal pass...
an unexpected remark, as if to himself and not meant to be overheard, leaving you, Othello, intrigued and mentally disorganized (O...
Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...
position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...
has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...
In short, then, Othello has it all, and in Iagos eyes, he has nothing. It is apparent that Iago has worked for many years in the s...
romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...
leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...
for himself - with a kiss. Her husband retorts, "Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows o...