... Venice - and makes some excellent points, which could well have come earlier. 4. This brings together the idea of Venice and the character of Othello himself, but this superior, sneering view of Othello needed a better range of quotations. Sometimes a list of very short phrases can be useful. 5. This is a very apt quotation, but leaves out some other ... cheats, and bullys everyone around in order to get what he wants. He uses Roderigo, Brabantio, and just about every other character in the play to attain his goal of ruining Othello. This summary is what the play might seem like to the ...

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... on a specific emotion that propelled the play forward and moved the story along. From Romeo and Juliet's love, to Hamlet's bitter anger and hate, Shakespeare and proven to be one of the greatest story writers of his time, and many times using his ability to play with emotions. Shakespeare's 1603 ... certain cases such as Iago and Roderigo, jealousy was a part of who they were and this was evident from the beginning of the play. However, jealousy also unveiled the type of person a specific character was, when the audience believed they had the character all figured out. Othello was initi...

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... story good does prevail and Iago is killed in the end. In Othello, Shakespeare uses many different types of irony. In many of the situations he uses verbal irony, when a character states one thing but means another. Iago does this many of times because of the demeanor of his character, and example is when he says "He is for him," (Act I Scene ii) There is also situational ... very quickly and uses his emotion instead of logic to make his decisions. After reading Shakespeare's, "Othello" I concluded that it could be the most tragic play Shakespeare ever wrote. It is so tragic that no one...

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