... and infidelity. The playwright had a way of constructing many complex characters and it's from his genius that we have such characters as Hamlet, Othello, Gertrude and Desdemona. In Shakespeare's play "Othello, the Moor of Venice," the title character, Othello, was sold into slavery, escaped his bounds, and ended up ... 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 i...

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... and in Othello, Moor of Venice, Iago rips apart the lives of innocent people because of his greed for power and attention. Shakespeare's timeless play, Hamlet, is a prime example of the origin of evil in most Shakespearean plays. The villain in the play, Claudius, is governed by ... play, Claudius not only kills Hamlet's father, but also guilts Hamlet's girlfriend Ophelia into trying to drive Hamlet even deeper into madness. (Piphetti, gradesaver.com) Claudius's insurmountable greed was inherent and he wasn't able to overcome its transformation into evil. One of Shakespeare's most villai...

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Nature, which is the unchanging natural principle of the world and the preserving cause of all things,1 needs order. In the tragedies of "Hamlet," "Macbeth," and "Othello," Shakespeare created worlds that were turbulently disturbed by tainted causes and needed restoration. Because of a disruption in the universal order, there were serious consequences for those who meddled with the natural ... unnaturally caused the death of another. As a result, many lives were tragically lost. However, deaths are relatively insignificant to the importance of nature's stability in the end. Through these tra...

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