... consequently leads him to his ultimate fate. His own presence in the play contributes to it being a tragedy with a horrific end where innocent people fall helplessly victim to circumstances beyond their control. The complexity of the characters personalities and characteristics combined with their world full of chaos ... and turmoil lead to this battle of good and evil which exists in Othello, both play and person. Othello's character is undone by Iago, who is intent on vengeance, and uses Othello's good traits against him, eventually leading to self ... and well respected in society de...

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Desdemona Shakespeare's sweetest star A Outline of the role of Desdemona in the text : Desdemona is the sickly sweet innocent in Shakespeare's play Othello. Desdemona is a strong willed, faithful young women of noble breeding from Elizabethan times. She comes across as being an honorable ... lord of duty. I am hitherto your daughter but here's my husband ; " My first impression of Desdemona is that she is strong willed and a very passionate person. If I had to say what star sign she was it would be a Scorpio be cause they have the same nature as Desdemona. Desdemona comes across as honest and ...

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... to come along and damage their love, the chaos would never come again. Frustration would also be involved here. Othello sees Iago as a trusting person. We see this in his words". "I know thou art full of love and honesty". Here he is saying that he knows Iago is a very "trusting" ... this just makes Othello even more jealous so he suspects she is having an affair with Cassio. Sympathy should be felt for her because she is totally innocent and has no idea what Iago is planning. During the scene Desdemona talks to Othello about getting Cassio's job back. She says "why then tomorrow night ...

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... 65). In the context Iago uses it, these words are supposed to reassure Roderigo, that Iago is fooling Othello. Unlike Roderigo, a rational and thorough person would try to understand these words and come to the conclusion that Iago might not only deceive Othello but also themselves. This double entendre and play on ... doesn't shy away from exploiting it. She is the character who the play revolves around and it is due to her submissive, assertive and innocent nature that the many fatalities occur. Desdemona spent most of her life with her father and it is probable that she rarely left th...

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... Iago manipulated Othello's feeling by proving him that Desdemona was having an affair with Cassio, Othello is in full rage tide and decides to kill both Desdemona and Cassio, both innocent men. Shakespeare proves that such a high-rank character could be blind by his jealousy. Furthermore, Roderigo is also a victim of jealousy. Rodrigo is a jealous suitor of Desdemona, he believes that ... 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 innocen...

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... the composer to convey the concept of tragedy, leaving the responders perception of a tragedy and the heroic figure clear and precise. Both Shakespeare and Fitzgerald use the fall of a notable person as the main focus in their tragedies. Othello and The Great Gatsby display the downfall of two men who loved excessively but "loved not wisely-. As a common standard in tragedy ... anti-hero. Gatsby's story is undoubtedly tragic; he dies alone putting Daisy before himself. As the novel progresses and Fitzgerald deconstructs Gatsby's self-presentation, Gatsby reveals himself to be an innocen...

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... witches told him.   The Thane of Glamis, Macbeth, consistently contemplates on these three prophecies since he wants them to become true and then goes and kills King Duncan and other innocent characters in the play.   After reading the play, we wonder if the witches have any part in the decisions of Macbeth .   Hags during this time period could predict the future ... , add temptation and influence the actions committed by certain people, but they cannot control the destiny of a person. The decision in which  Macbeth committed seemed out of his guilt and misery.   The impressions pr...

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... hesitations that entice and implant images in Othello's head that lead him to his demise. But what is more important is, he gives Othello the motive to murder his own innocent Desdemona, satisfying Iago's immense appetite for revenge. The motive for Iago's devious plan is initially made clear in the first of Iago's three major soliloquies, in which he proclaims Othello ... of course is that all the open declarations of love are made during conversations where Iago is deceiving other characters. One is therefore left to ponder on the naivety and innocent nature of all the characters. How...

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... actions "the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity" . In other words, Iago's only reason for destroying Othello is that Iago is an inherently bad person. The conversations that Iago has with Roderigo and Cassio show that Iago invents reasons for his actions against Othello, so that his own selfish ends can ... . Cassio is a ladies man, and Iago believes that Cassio's charm makes women fall in love with him. Iago will make the innocent flirtations of Cassio and Desdemona seem like secret love to Othello. "After some time to abuse Othello's ears/ That he is too familiar with his ... is...

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... actions "the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity" . In other words, Iago's only reason for destroying Othello is that Iago is an inherently bad person. The conversations that Iago has with Roderigo and Cassio show that Iago invents reasons for his actions against Othello, so that his own selfish ends can ... . Cassio is a ladies man, and Iago believes that Cassio's charm makes women fall in love with him. Iago will make the innocent flirtations of Cassio and Desdemona seem like secret love to Othello. "After some time to abuse Othello's ears/ That he is too familiar with his ... is...

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... are in love with and they are blind to any of their flaws. People want to feel that they understand the person they love and that they can trust them. This is not always the case. There are times that one of the people in the relationship is deceitful and dishonest as ... William Shakespeare, the book The Pilot's wife, by Anita Shreve, and the film Unfaithful it is apparent in the main relationships being examined in these works that one person has been disrespecting the other person in order to achieve a relationship with another. In the play Othello, Othello is led to believe that hi...

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... Othello, Shakespeare challenges racist attitudes by depicting Othello as being black-coloured, but being the good guy and Iago as the white, but evil man. The person who shows his racist attitude directly to Othello is Brabantio who in Act 1 Scene 2 accuses Othello of using magic to lure his daughter, Desdemona. ... her feelings about Othello. Emilia: "O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!" These remarks give us an image of Othello being a person of high military reputation, but also being racially an alien within Venetian society - one which tentatively accepted him because ...

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... for wealth and power that she forces her husband to commit murder, 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 ... said that in Shakespearean society, since evilness was a product of the innate human sin of greed, then evilness itself was also inherent to a person's nature. This holds a slightly different view today than it did four hundred years ago when these plays were being produced. Even in our own ... hypothesis known ...

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... good-hearted, brave Othello automatically assume his loving wife is cheating? The answer is simple, complete manipulation of his actions by Iago. Othello is proved to be an extremely gullible person, as Iago never offers Othello legitimate proof of the affair. Critics suggest that Othello had begun to give into the stereotypes of his racial status as stated above. It is ... 'd thee: no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss," (Shakespeare 5.2.3). Othello realizes as he is killing himself all of the mistakes he had made and what a horrible person he was. Did the pressures of soc...

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... him in two ways, being, finance from Roderigo and getting Cassio in trouble with Othello. This shows how "such a snipe,"" would be "for sport and profit,"" presenting Iago as a nasty person who finds fun in exploiting them. Similarly his passion for money is conveyed to the audience in his metaphor in Act one Scene one where he instructs Brabantio to, "look ... their downfall through their undiscovered mistakes. This leaves little to the imagination of the audience as they witness a strong character like Iago with imperfections, suggesting when it comes to a more innocent and nave chara...

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... Othello. Iago's opinion of himself is very high, he enjoy being evil, and seem to have his way in outwitting everyone to the very end. Iago is the kind of person who can lie without remorse and turn on the appearances of being funny and charming at the right moments. At the outset, Iago's official reason for his hatred of the ... for Iago's hatred of Othello is due to being overlooked for promotion to the lieutenant. Whether it is valid or not, Iago truly believes that he is the most deserving person for the promotion. However, the promotion went to Cassio who, according to Iago, is onl...

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... at the court of King James I during 1604. This collection of critical interpretations has been produced to clarify and discuss the numerous interpretations available. Analysis of Othello differ from person to person however there are two main readings that have been accepted into society of the twentieth century. First of all, there is the Aristotelian tragedy, where generally some type of hamartia ... '. Blake's reading assesses Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca, the only women in the play. These three women can also be classified into all of the stereotypical views of women. Desdemona the i...

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... other characters being praised, "Oh, thou art wise!" (4.1.72). Shakespeare's utilization of dramatic irony forces the responders to check if they too are being deceived by a seemingly friendly person. In Act five Scene One, Shakespeare uses dramatic action and tension where Roderigo attempts to kill Cassio. It magnifies Iago's deceptive and manipulative skills as it begins to unfold a series ... is apparent when Iago uses animal imagery to describe Desdemona and Emilia as 'wild cats" and Othello as "a Barbary horse". He conveys a clear perception of Desdemona's innocent nature whic...

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... of his character seems to be shared by most of the figures around him in the play. The critical response is mixed--some critics insist that his claims to be innocent of jealousy are merely self-justifying, and certainly he slips easily into assuming his wife to be unfaithful. Other critics make the distinction between an inner, self-created jealousy, which ... at Emilia might just as well be a fury for himself, who spent the entire play manipulating Brabantio, Roderigo, Cassio, Othello, and Desdemona, and in the end is undone by the person he least expected--his wife. All this talk of t...

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... . Despite being widely known as honest Iago', this man is a sophisticated villain who thrives on deception. His skills of improvisation are so developed that every word he speaks to another person is a calculated drive for self-advancement. As such, his true character is only fully revealed when he is alone on stage. We hear his first soliloquy at the end of ... the true nature of his malignity. He states of Desdemona And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all. He seeks the destruction of an innocent, with whom he has no quarrel. This is bordering on psychopathic...

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... . He accomplishes this by cunningly manipulating those around him in order to advance his position and by subtlety punishing those he believes have injured him. As a result of his machinations, innocent characters like Desdemona and Cassio, along with Othello, the intended recipient of these tactics, will suffer. Yet, Iago holds no regret or remorse over his deception. The fact that he ... . This lack of companionship that Iago displays toward Othello will enable him to carry out his plans without reservations. Later in the passage, Iago says that he is a type of person that will throw on...

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... his beloved has betrayed him. Benzon states, "Shakespeare thus considered this one problematic situation, which has to do with a male difficulty in accepting one's beloved as both a sexual and a nurturing person, at three times in his life and produced different kinds of plays- (259). Initially Iago acts as if he respects and honors Othello, creating an environment of false trust. Othello ... 's jealousy and his need to defend his honor and his reputation reduces him to a man out of control. He becomes a broken man defined by hatred and jealousy eventually killing his innocent wife. Even...

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... mainly known for his "honesty." "In the course of Othello, Iago is called "honest" fifteen times by everybody in the play, including himself."(Epstein 379) Othello believes Iago to be a person, "of exceeding honesty, who knows all qualities, with learned sprit of human dealings."(Oth. 3.3 257) He appears to be something he's not. "To attain his purpose with success there must ... first if he should be following Lord Henry Wotton's philosophies but the book seems like evidence that he should. Othello kills his wife, not knowing until afterwards that she was innocent. Iago and Lord Henry ...

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... has not been able to keep her satisfied for even that long, makes Othello think that he will lose his reputation. He therefore sets out to exact revenge on the person who might have made him the gossip of Venice, and undermined his position as general of the Venetian Army. Iago does not just use the handkerchief to convince Othello of ... further to infuriate Othello. Luckily for Iago this seems to be all the evidence that Othello needs to make the judgement that Desdemona has been unfaithful. Iago's effectiveness at noticing innocent situations and making them look suspect is another w...

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