through strange deserts and high mountains, and all the terrors he .
had endured. Desdemona loved him for his courage and .
sympathized with his pains; he loved that she could show pity. .
Desdemona enters. She is made to choose between her husband .
and her father before the Council. She has been carefully reared .
to become a suitable wife to some Venetian gentleman, but all .
her gentleness and love have reached out for Othello. It does not .
matter to her that he is an older man of a foreign race. When she .
is asked who her sovereign lord is, she does not choose her .
father, to whom she has always been obedient and to whom she .
will always feel a sense of duty. But she chooses Othello, her .
husband. Hearing her words, her father admits defeat, knowing .
there is nothing else that he can do; but he openly disclaims his .
daughter. .
The talk turns from the private affairs of Brabantio to matters of .
state. Othello is to go at once to Cyprus. Othello accepts the .
order, stating that public duty is more important than his private .
desire for a honeymoon. Since Brabantio will not allow .
Desdemona to stay at his house during Othello's absence, she .
will follow her husband to Cyprus, under the care of Emilia, her .
maid, and Iago, who is Emilia's husband. Othello assures the .
Council that the fervor of his love will not get in the way of the .
serious business he must handle in Cyprus. The Duke tells .
Brabantio that his son-in-law is "far more fair than black." .
The Council adjourns, and everyone leaves the room except Iago .
and a dejected Roderigo. Since Roderigo has lost Desdemona, he .
is prepared to go out and drown himself, but Iago laughs at the .
idea, advising him to drown cats and blind puppies instead. Iago .
assures Roderigo that the marriage of Desdemona and Othello is .
an unnatural one and will never last. When the marriage breaks .
up, Roderigo will be free to woo Desdemona for himself. .
Since Iago wants to destroy both Othello and Cassio, he comes .
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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