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

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

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

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

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....

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...

character, Iago is also difficult to grasp, because he has no motivation that we can find to do what he does. It appears that he s...

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

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

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

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

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

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

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

but on their bonds with other men who guarantee their honor and reputation" (Bloom 89). This is demonstrated through the characte...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

he should rank higher than he does and he also feels that he should have Desdemona. In these regards we see a man who is clearly f...

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

(Shakespeare I i). In this we see a subtle indication that he has ended his anger and is now humble, doing what he must in followi...

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