smooth over. He is also certain that he is worthy of Desdemona .
and gently professes his love for her. He is the picture of self- .
confident, acceptable pride, integrity and nobility. .
Cassio, the new lieutenant, arrives on the scene to inform Othello .
about the Turkish threat and about the Duke's summons for him .
to come to the Council Hall. It is obvious that war is imminent. It .
is also apparent that the Duke thinks highly of Othello, for he .
wants to see him immediately to entrust the Venetian war efforts .
into his hands. .
The search party arrives, armed and carrying torches. Brabantio .
verbally abuses Othello and physically threatens him. He accuses .
Othello of enchanting Desdemona with magic and drugs and .
orders his arrest. Othello resists and reacts calmly, stating he is .
wanted urgently by the Duke on state business. Brabantio .
decides to go along to present his case against Othello, certain .
that the Duke will rule in his favor. .
It is important to notice how cleverly Shakespeare weaves public .
and private business in this play. Cassio, on official business .
from the Duke, does not know about the private life, the .
marriage, of Othello, his boss. It is Iago who informs him of the .
elopement. The Duke is involved with grave matters of state, for .
a war with Turkey is imminent; Brabantio ignores the matters of .
state and goes with Othello to present his private case against the .
marriage of Desdemona before the Duke. .
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Act I, Scene 3 .
The Duke and the Council are disturbed by the rumors that the .
Turkish fleet is planning an attack on the island of Cyprus. They .
are discussing a plan to send Othello there to defend it when .
Desdemona's father accuses his son-in-law of witchcraft. Othello .
suggests that his wife should be called to address the Council. .
While he and the Senators are waiting for her to arrive, Othello .
describes how he wooed her. He would come, invited by her .
father, to her house and tell about his adventures, of traveling .
By that, I couldn't help but distinguish the type of character Othello was. ... What exactly contributes to Othello's tragic heroism? ... Othello was also great, but was somewhat far from perfect. ... In summary, I consider Othello as a tragic hero because he was also very self centered and interested, along with him being gullible on top of all that. ... People have a good impression of Othello. ...
Barbantio tackles Othello with the theft of his daughter, claiming that he must have worked on her by witchcraft. ... Act IV Iago gives Othello 'proof' of Desdemona's infidelity. Observed by Othello, he draws Cassio into a conversation about a whore, Bianca, who is in love with the lieutenant: Cassio's levity as he talks of her is interpreted by Othello as contempt for his own wife's looseness. ... When an embassy arrives from Venice to relieve Othello of his duties and establish Cassio as his successor, Othello strikes his wife before the venetians. ... Othello, convi...
Othello Act III Scene I Cassio sends musicians to Othello to get back on his good side. ... Alone with Othello, Iago begins his implication of an affair between Cassio and Desdemona by reminding Othello that Cassio served as Othello and Desdemona's go-between during their courtship. ... Othello enters and flies into a rage at him. ... Othello is furious and plots for revenge. ... Othello was mad and went off. ...
Othello is a fundamentally different character to all others in the play [1]. ... This casts her in utter contrast to Othello and serves to highlight how much of an outsider Othello is. ... What does Venice mean in Othello? ... The Hidden Meaning of Othello The play Othello is a tale of jealousy, revenge, and deception. ... This summary is what the play might seem like to the unseeing eye, but to the indepth and trained reader there is more to the story then first appears. ...
First he tells of Othellos mis-doings to Brabantio, then he appears at Othellos side claiming Roderigo spoke the crude words. ... Iago is trying to provoke a rise out of Othello. ... Othello is another character we witness Iago plotting to destroy. ... Othello is never referred to by name. ... The last speech of Iago in Act 1 is a fantastic summary of his character. ...
Where Othello represents good, with his purity. ... In Act I, Scene I, which takes place in Venice where Iago pretends to be a "faithful" officer to Othello (governor), but why he really follows Othello is for his own good. He sucks up to Othello, so that Othello will may him a lieutenant, more power, after seeing that he is a so-called "trustworthy" worker. ... Brabantio, wanting to get his hands on Othello, he sets out with his armed men to look for Othello. ... Brabantio arrives with his men and forces Othello to accompany him to the duke, its like a trial, in this case Othello is the defe...
Maybe all this applies to tragedies written during the time that Sophocles wrote Oedipus, but when Shakespeare wrote Othello and Hamlet he must have chosen to leave out some of these elements that make a "tragedy". ... Without even getting into a deep plot summary, one can see the complexity of a tragedy and just how "tragic" they are. ... Some question whether Othello and Hamlet are truly tragedies, because Shakespeare does leave out a few elements of earlier tragic drama, but careful analyses of the two works reveals that they certainly are tragedies, but with a new twist. ... Othello a...
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