... view of his day. Through the interactions of his characters, Shakespeare brings to light the mistreatment of women by men and also shows how women did not resist this mistreatment. Shakespeare's extremely progressive view on women in society is another testament to his genius and talent as a playwright. Shakespeare's Othello has been studied exhaustively, yet most character analyses focus on the ... two male figures, Othello and Iago. The two main female characters, Desdemona and Emilia, are often overlooked ... and viewed as secondary actors to the jealous Moor and conniving villain....

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... a commander in the army of Venice and he is the husband of Desdemona who is white and wealthy woman. Obviously, Shakespeare uses black man for the role of important character. Besides, Shakespeare creates a romantic relationship between black and white (Othello & Desdemona) but most people think that their relationship is wrong. At the time the play was written, 1604, even the Queen of England ... those times. He is a commander of white Venedians, also he is husband of white noble women. If we look at the play "Othello," we can see that how Shakespeare emphases his thoughts and beliefs ...

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... ; he has earned both respect and admiration from the Duke, the Senate, and many Venetian citizens. Most of the Soldiers in Othello's army followed him faithfully, except for "Honest iago " Shakespeare, uses clashing irony, by giving Iago his Nickname, many people referred to Iago as "Honest Iago; " Iago is an angry ... know, friends all but now, as if all planets have unwitted men- swords out, and tilting one at others breasts" (Shakespeare 812). Othello acknowledges Iago's statement of innocence and inquires about Cassio's actions "How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot? " "I pray y...

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... Like to the Pontic Seaeven so my bloody thoughts shall ne'er look back', Shakespeare emphasises the transition of Othello's character from the former proud, noble man to one consumed by jealousy. He is, as critic Christopher Reaske described, an 'egotistical and immediately jealous' (Shakespeare's Othello, 1966) man who paradoxically justifies himself as 'cruel yet merciful' at killing ... Desdemona, indicating his lack of rationality. Subsequently, the dramatic device of Othello falling into a trance due to the shock from his excessive jealousy draws attention to the victory ...

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... love. This love must be between two liberated yet emotionally attached beings as shown in Shakespeare's Othello between Desdemona and her husband, Othello. Othello primarily expresses his honest love throughout the play during the most difficult times. Moreover, Desdemona is an independent character that loves Othello, but always has her own opinions as well. Furthermore, a piece of cloth that ... symbolizes their love is overpowered by their truthful feelings for each other. Consequently, in Shakespeare's Othello, Desdemona and Othello are independent characters that portray their eter...

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The crux of Shakespeare's Othello is the tragic fall from grace of valiant Othello' and the rippling destruction that occurs as a result of Othello's psychological decay. However, among other themes, of significance to this play is the stratification and marginilisation of individuals and groups. Through the events of the plot and an examination of ... his: language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament.(Aristotle) Keep up your bright swords, For the dew will rust them. Othello's rich dialogue aids in Shakespeare's presentation of Othello as a man in a position of powerful command,...

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... for foul toads | To knot and gender in! "(4.2.61-2). In these lines, he compares her to a woman who allows any man to copulate with her. The character of Othello experiences perhaps, the most dramatic change, and Shakespeare's done well to reflect this in the character's language. The hero in a play can never make an impact without the villain. This role in ... ! But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am. (2.1.194-6) This speech comes shortly after Othello and Desdemona kiss. An occurrence which again seems to stimulate Iago and make him wish something bad upon s...

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... and themes. Even in two seemingly different plays - a comedy and a tragedy - these parallels are apparent. Twelfth Night and Othello each show prime examples of reoccurring motifs. When comparing this comedy and this tragedy, specific parallels can be drawn. Setting is a significant part in Shakespeare's plays. The mood of the play and characters change with the different locations. In Twelfth Night, Olivia's house ... clown, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew frequently drink and become merry with dance and song. These scenes help brighten the plot as well as detract from other problems. Shakespe...

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... money. We will have more of this to-morrow. Adieu," (I.III.368-375). After hearing rumors that Othello slept with Emilia, paranoia takes over Iago's perception of Othello, therefore creating hatred towards an innocent men. Shakespeare uses paranoia to cause many characters such as Othello and Cassio to feel jealousy and experience emotional exhaustion. While an abstract idea consumes these characters, yet no ... grounds," (I.I. 20-26). The fact that Iago was not promoted, he starts to announce his accomplishment to make him feel better, not to mention he thinks that Othello's choices are...

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... talking to Roderigo. He says "I follow him to serve my turn upon him" to show his feelings and he then tells Roderigo to inform Brabantio of Othello's marriage to his daughter, Desdemona. In the original text Shakespeare uses animal imagery, "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe", as well as other language techniques to show his ideas. In the film ... which is true to the original text. It is these features that have been used to help show the cinematic language and the ideas that Shakespeare conveys in the original text. The second theme in the text "Othello" is that of the moral...

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... all time, wrote many plays in his lifetime including four major tragedies - Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello. This publication focuses on Othello only, and contains a selection of various critical interpretations and essays by eminent Shakespeare scholars. Each essay closely examines and analyses original perspectives on Shakespeare's Othello through a variety of frameworks - historical, Marxist, reader-response, feminist, psychoanalytical and postcolonial. In this introduction, I will discuss ... the Marxist/post-colonialist as well as the feminist view on Othello as an entrée ...

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... spoke of them as "Negars and Moors which are crept into the realm, of which kind of people there are already here too many". It seems that Shakespeare is almost mocking the Queen by characterising Othello as a black man who has a high ranking position in the Army and who marries a white aristocratic women, against her fathers will. Ruth Cowlig suggests that the ... the portrayal of women and their actions in the text. A prime example of this is when Desdemona elopes with Othello without her father's permission, which during that time would have been socially unacceptable. This is reveal...

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... any fashion which can be described using any modern forms of racism or racial theory. Therefor, in order to explain Shakespeare's usage of black characters, each character must be examined separately from the other in the context of their very different roles. Othello is the lead character of the play by the same name. He is a moor, and therefor a man of black ... his being Black does not directly lead to his down fall. All of the flaws which are displayed in Othello are simply human qualities. Jealously is displayed by many of Shakespeare's characters as is self doubt. These are the tw...

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... that I found. One of the ideas sees Iago as a conspicuous character whose sole purpose is to generate evil. Another analysis of Iago is that Shakespeare has created Iago to be a very dramatic villain rather than an evil one. These broad generalizations do not correlate in any kind of rationalization for ... Iago must be plotting just because he has a passion for scheming. He feels that Shakespeare purposely intended for Iago's motives to be poor in order to show this evil. His main argument discredits his hatred for Othello due to him not being picked for lieutenant. He feels that if thi...

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... . Most of these plays were based 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. Shakespeare's use of a tragic hero and a wicked antagonist adds to the effectiveness of the play. He characterizes in great depth by using soliloquies and conversation between the c...

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... once again they"re "the bad guys" and the audience isn't suppose to agree with what they say. By having these three men describe Othello in such a way, Shakespeare is telling the audience "since these guys despise Othello so much, Othello is good, and anything they say about him is biased because their evil". This scene is not racist, it is, if anything, anti ... -racist. In Othello, Shakespeare speaks of Othello through the people in the play with an unbiased point of view, Desdemona, the Duke, etc. This is true because of the fact that every person in the play, except ... he is sayin...

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... interpretations one can begin to understand the vast enormity of different readings that have been amassed since Shakespeare's plays were first published. Although Shakespeare was the playwright to many plays, this collection will concentrate on one of the plays that were written during Shakespeare's great tragic period, Othello. In 1565 Giovanni Cinzio wrote a tale that relates to the deception of a Moorish general ensign into ... considering that his wife has been dishonest. Shakespeare most likely used this as a backbone to the creation of Othello by complicating the plot with more c...

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... death, destruction and sorrow; in essence the tragedy of the play itself, Othello's demise, is caused by this transformation. The most prominent cause behind Othello's downfall portrayed by Shakespeare is Iago, as he deliberately plots and is the direct instigator of the downfall of Othello. Iago says that Othello will be, "as tenderly led by the nose as assess are," and ... wooed my lady, Know of your love?" or by muttering under his breath, "Ha, I like not that," when Cassio visits Desdemona. Iago warns Othello, "Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio." Shakespeare intensifies ...

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... any fashion which can be described using any modern forms of racism or racial theory. Therefor, in order to explain Shakespeare's usage of black characters, each character must be examined separately from the other in the context of their very different roles. Othello is the lead character of the play by the same name. He is a moor, and therefor a man of black ... his being Black does not directly lead to his down fall. All of the flaws which are displayed in Othello are simply human qualities. Jealously is displayed by many of Shakespeare's characters as is self doubt. These are the tw...

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... of evil has not been elsewhere been portrayed in great mastery as we see in Shakespeare's character Iago" (Bradley, 206). By analyzing and reading Shakespeare's play Othello, we can indeed say that Iago is Shakespeare's most notorious and evil character. Iago is the triumphant villain in the play Othello. He is a complicated character that real intentions are in layers of deviance and deception that ... but at the same time aims to break down all the other characters around him. He is the instigator of all the tragic events within Othello. He is a complex character in all the Shakespear...

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... about not having received the promotion to lieutenant that he felt he deserved. Therefore we immediately see that he is a negative character and Shakespeare portrays him as having a disagreeable persona. We also discover that Iago "hast had my (Roderigo's) purse", that Roderigo has ... is a member of a reasonably upper-class family, which is further emphasised by his use of complex sentences and high register and figurative language. Shakespeare demonstrates Iago's wide range of vocabulary by using words such as 'epithets' and 'knee-crooking knave' as well as the use of plosive ... is h...

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... presented as an honest, kind and respected black man, in service to the Venetian state, who recently married Desdemona, the Venetian senator Brabantio's daughter. Interestingly, Othello does not make an appearance until Act I scene ii, where Shakespeare uses his first appearance to contradict the audience's expectations that were developed in scene one. Rather than a "black ram-, the "devil- or even the "Barbary ... a Jacobean audience as such talk was a result of the social attitude towards blacks and people of differing cultural backgrounds at the time. When Othello is "straight emplo...

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... The Predominant Factor Throughout The Play? Many people consider Shakespeare's Othello to be a racist play. The main character in this controversial play is a black moor who marries a white woman, but their marriage is later destroyed by treachery, jealousy and deceit. Although ... is the only time she says what she thinks of him, she hid her racism towards Othello all through the play and disapproved of his marriage with Desdemona, but could not show her true feelings because she would get in trouble with her "lord". Because Shakespeare wrote a play about a black and white union, in a...

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... fact based on the play. To truly understand the relationship one must summarize the movie and the play then compare them. The movie "O" is based on Shakespeare's "Othello". The setting takes place in a wealthy private school. Othello is played by a African American basketball player, who made his way from the ghetto to a prestigious private school through means of his ability in sport. His ... friendship with Oden. He soon looses this strong friendship after a brawl with Roger which was instigated by Hugo. The result of the brawl was Mike's suspension from the basketball team. Shakespea...

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... joy for destruction as well as swayed, insecure jealousy. This is achieved through the use of a range of characters; Iago, Othello, Desdemona, who possess polar qualities, and also through a range of situation and scenes of commitment, savagery and uncertainty. Shakespeare uses the egocentric, manipulative and malignant character of Iago in an attempt to present a disturbing picture of evil, destructive jealousy. ... fuelled by a disturbing love for jealousy. The image of jealousy is further portrayed to the audience through the "honest fool", Othello. Shakespeare is able to manipulate t...

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