... his malicious plans through his soliloquies. As Othello falls into Iago's "web of deceit," Shakespeare portrays Othello's change from a humble, soft-spoken, loving, and rational general to an animalistic, malicious monster who uses Iago's bestial vocabulary. While one can consider Iago the sole cause of Othello's downfall, cause can also be found within Othello himself. It is Othello's intrinsic internal flaws ... everything that will play on this intensity. Iago does not initiate Othello's jealousies and Iago needs only to carefully tutor to Othello's own weaknesses and flaws. The symb...

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... centres on the complex idea of jealousy as a means of exploring the emotion which is prevalent in all societies. Jealousy is first personified by Iago as "the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on". Here, Shakespeare provides a figure to the significant emotion of jealousy, relative to not only Elizabethan societies, but societies of all eras ... ...

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... may make him a bit of both: hypocrite and genius. When Hal turns against Falstaff it is truly upsetting, a terrible scene, and you see that Hal (now Henry) is a sort of monster. He has ignored Falstaff while he is ill, and the King is blamed for Falstaff's situation. Henry's "bad humours" towards him are to blame. But he is also the most ... ...

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... . In a soliloquy at the conclusion of Act One, Iago says "It is engendered. Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light." Shakespeare uses the image of a monster being born as a metaphor for the start of Iago's evil scheming. It also becomes evident that Othello's mind has been corrupted by Iago's evil handiwork when he too starts to ... ...

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... forgiveness. Inhabited by a host of memorable characters - the wise Prospero, his daughter, the innocent Miranda, and her first love, Ferdinand; Ariel, the spirit of the air, and the gross earth monster, Caliban; the drunkard vaudeville clowns, Stephano and Trinculo, among others - The Tempest is clearly the culmination of Shakespeare's unequalled creative powers The themes of isolation and re-integration, central to ... ...

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