... Cassio and Desdemona are lovers. He knows that these small, natural courtesies will help him prove his accusations to Othello. A flourish of trumpets announces the safe arrival of Othello. He comes ashore and takes his wife in his arms, saying he has gone through hell during the storm and now finds himself in heaven ... home. They conceal themselves behind a wall, and as Cassio passes, Roderigo stabs at him, but Roderigo is the one that is really wounded. Iago then comes from his hiding place and stabs Cassio. He falls down, but he is only wounded in the leg, even though Iago thinks he ...

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... 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 words ... anger may have something to do with how Iago puts it to him, but the seeds of hate were already planted, Iago merely watered them. Here is how Iago tells him the dreadful news. I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your Daughter an...

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... with Othello's decision because he feels that he is unworthy due to his indiscreet actions. Cassio is smooth, polished, elegant, handsome, and cultured. Many of these traits are direct opposites of the foreign Othello. Innately, Othello admires Cassio's character, but that subconscious admiration translates to jealousy when Iago nudges him in that direction. Cassio is fairly static throughout the play.  He is an ... murdered by the man that he trusts, but he manages to denounce Iago in a letter found on his person after his death. Emilia Emilia is the most straightforward and hone...

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... he causes is only occasionally relieved by comedy, provided by Roderigo and the Clown. OVERALL ANALYSES CHARACTERS Othello Othello is a romantic character. He has not been born and bred in familiar England; instead he comes from the remote and mysterious Morocco. He has lived a life of adventure and romance, traveling to distant and strange lands. He has also experienced the ups and downs ... and she is dying, Desdemona tries to protect Othello's good name, telling Emilia that she has killed herself. Cassio Cassio is a figure of great importance to the movement of the plot, but not much...

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... a distant role-model, if they do not embody desirable traits? (Shakespeare Resource Center n.pag.) The interrelation between categories does not stop there, however. It also complements his character in dealing with the play's antagonists. The evils of the antagonists are immediately contrasted by Othello's righteous traits. More important that dealing with particular characters is how he deals with the more controversial situations ... is now set for Othello's development as a tragic hero. He has respect, adversity, allies, importance, romance and character. Now he needs to be distingu...

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... from ancient Greece. These classic plays followed a strict and consistent structure, almost universally occurring in one location over the course of one day, and revolving around one major plot. These Greek dramas almost universally portrayed the downfall of a hero or character of legend and high stature. Aristotle defined the classic tragedy as a story centered about the hero's noble and moral struggle ... and Desdemona, an underlying atmosphere of prejudice towards the seemingly misplaced Moor in Venetian society, as well as the jealousy and distrust that comes to distance Othello from...

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... is set up because the audience already knows the entire story before they see it. The popular story allows the ignorance of each character's real situation become the irony of what they say. The main reason why the situational irony works so well is the fact that both characters are figuratively blind ... and they were mother and son as well as husband and wife. The pride of Oedipus brought his downfall. Shakespeare, on the other hand, uses jealousy as the tragic flaw of Othello. Othello's tragic flaw comes out first when the evil antagonist Iago says he will frame as lovers Othello's w...

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... 2 Desdemona's father describes her as "tender, fair and happy- then in Scene 3 he says she is mild, shy and nave when it comes to men. This description gives the reader their first impression of Desdemona and creates a certain angelic' image of her in the audience's mind. In Act 1 Scene 3 Othello says he loves Desdemona for her pity, understanding and gentle admiration "She gave ... a wrong for the whole world-. Emilia is more realistic and worldly she knows adultery is common. She has a strong feminist attitude and many 21st century women would appreciate her character whereas Desdemona...

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... freedom excitement the washing line represents. When we are bought to the presence we learn the washing line has become warped with sagging wires' reflecting the self change of the central character who's hands have become etched with scars and wrinkles 'mirroring her life experiences and responsibilities. The women's tone becomes colder and instead ... Othello we witness the destruction of the central character Othello, as he cannot cope with the changes that begin to occur in his life. As a result of this we observe a bold hero transform into an irrational uncontrollable murderer. The ...

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... years after the Shakespearean context (in the early 1600's). The soldier on guard duty obviously still had social and racial prejudices against Othello the character, indicated by his assertion that a "Negro- must not be allowed to murder a white woman, so atrocious he thought the act ... 's ready submission to Othello, her defencelessness and innocence strongly emphasizes Othello's cruelty towards his young wife. We are further outraged by his clear evidence of abusing his patriarchal power over Desdemona displayed by his mocking her "obedience- by calling her back. Lodovico observes, "...

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