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In five pages this research paper examines how irony is used in these tragedies in a comparison and contrast of characters and the...

In six pages this paper presents a definition of tragedy and explains how Othello structurally fits within the parameters establis...

skitters to the old event with a new trigger. It does not matter that it is a new person, a new time, or a new love. The memory...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the many differences between past and present society in an argument that Othello may be outdated ...

first of all, the deep love of Othello and Desdemona, as well as the villainy of Iago. Desdemona establishes her love for Othello ...

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...

differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...

of his own standing among his peers would have ignored or challenged Iago. But Othello fully agrees with Iagos voiced concern that...

no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...

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

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

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...

fears he shall be poor" (Shakespeare III iii). In this we can see that "The word content is used to represent Othello s current si...

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...

line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...

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....

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

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...

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

old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas father and as such would hav...

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...

In five pages this report discusses the significance of the handkerchief in this tragedy by William Shakespeare. Three sources ar...

be the corrupt individual that he is. That said we move on with a discussion of Othellos jealousy. Othello is convinced, through...

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

perception and myth, was a place characterized by both barbarianism and exoticism, inhabited by wild beasts and by people with env...

love of Othello for Desdemona, while it seemed to hold such optimistic promise in the beginning, was so excessive, it blinded him ...