... through Othello, Shakespeare criticises the dangers of fickle pride being compensated for by jealousy and ultimately surpassing rationality. Social influences cloud Othello and Desdemona's understanding of their love and ultimately drives their relationship to a tragic end. Shakespeare conveys that the martial influences from the Elizabethan Spanish War and patriarchal values under the reign of a virgin ... A.C. Bradley claims, is 'quite free from introspection and emotion confuses and dulls his intellect' (1904; Shakespearean Tragedy) allows external forces to consume his understa...

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... attitude is presented most prominently in the line "Since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, 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 ... by phrases such as "when devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows-. This shows that his love of deception and manipulation has extended even to the audience, to whom he will not even reveal his inner motives, instead attempting to ...

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