... is core to this Shakespearian tragedy. Othello's different racial background displaces him within the societal sphere of his career. His Moorish roots elicit skepticism to his capital position in the Italian military, however it is indubitable that his ethnicity has inculcated a strength within him that cradles his great military prowess. His experiences as a slave Moor redline him from the upper class ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... unpruned, her hedges ruin'd, Her knots disorder'd."" His use of the term "seal-walled- echoes John of Gaunt's speech in Act II, Scene I, in which the nobleman refers to "the silver sea Which serves it [England] in the office of a wall."" In Gaunt's speech, he praises the beauty of England but warns Richard of the consequences of leasing the land " ... ...

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... general, saying they are sex driven and lazy in the other affairs of life. "You rise to play and go to bed to work." But his defining characteristic is his silver tongue and almost magical effect on making those around him his puppets. Everything works exactly as he predicts it to the audience, and he seems to have an unnatural understanding ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... on short stores or even historical personages or events. His tragedy, Othello, The Moor of Venice is no exception to this rule. Shakespeare took the idea of Othello from an Italian short story by Giambattista Cinthio. In this play, Shakespeare takes his tragic hero through a series of painful and serious situations that lead to major consequences for all of those involved ... ...

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... his character that reveal themselves on closer inspection were intended to lead the audience to certain other conclusions. The fact that Iago values pragmatism over idealism presents a Machiavellian streak in Italian politics, taking advantage of the English view of Italy at the time in order both to lend the play an additional element of plausibility and to use the existing images ... ...

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... , Iago, who hast had my purse/As if the strings were thine- [1.1.2-3] in which case we as a contemporary audience must ask ourselves, can love be merely purchased with gold and silver? Does money guarantee the power to own anything of one's heart's desires? In the case of Othello, it doesn't. As Roderigo and Iago alerts Brabantio that his "daughter and the ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School