... a situation where he stands to benefit from traditional procedures, he is willing to support them, even though he maintains a stance in support of social mobility as a new man' of the Renaissance when talking about man's right to self-determinism - "Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners-. This fluidity in his stance on practicality as a trait shows the ... , I never found a man that knew how to love himself-, which also suggests that he mistrusts the rest of humanity for its inability to realise that human ideals are only hindering life's potential fruits', and tha...

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... precognizant in shaping the characters of Desdemona and Emilia for Othello.   Both characters display some tendencies that resemble present day female attributes closer than attributes of the women of the Renaissance era. The reader of Othello would never outwardly suspect that the female characters are modern models while perusing the text, meaning Desdemona and Emilia are not so out of character ... little has changed in our treatment of females in society today compared to their treatment back in Shakespeare's day. We know that Shakespeare tried to create characters that resembled...

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