... her husband. She subscribes to the male Elizabethan ideal of honour rather than doing what is expected of her as a woman. The refusal to submit to the male ideal of female honour can also be found in the character of Beatrice. She seeks revenge on Claudio, but recognises that as a woman she ... the play, meaning, in this case, that men are just words without action. She is saying that, in an effort to obey the "code of honour" and protect their male rapport, the men are allowing truly dishonourable acts (i.e wronging Hero) to go on unchallenged. Although she is a ... plays. In an Eli...

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... been robbed, he answers inconsistently; "What tellst thou me of robbing? This is Venice; My house is not a grange." This not only shows that Venice is a quiet, civilized, uneventful place, but that its inhabitants (or at least Brabantios generation) believe it to be themselves.[ LINK TO 3] They live by a code of behavior and upbringing which views someone like Othello as barbarous ... , uncivilized, and almost amusing in a superior cultural kind of way. Every time a character calls Othello "the Moor" a sense of derision and superiority is conveyed and all the other feelings of distance in...

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... takes his own life. Titus, on the other hand, does not follow classic tragic style and dies without seeing the error of his ways. He does, however, possess some degree of self-knowledge. Titus Andronicus is a man who is intensely committed to his own code of ethics, even to the point of sheer stubbornness. Early in the play, Titus shows no mercy for the lives ... does, and goes as far as to say death is too good for the manipulative Iago. Othello, convinced his wife has been unfaithful, kills her out of what he claims is duty rather than revenge that drives Titus. Past military experien...

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