Othello - Desdemona
.... lies in which Othello will eventually believe in.
Iago handles Cassio in a more slightly delicate way. Iago’s basic plot is to make Othello believe Desdemona is having an affair with Desdemona. "Cassio’s a proper man: let me see now; To get his place and to plume up my will In double knavery. How? How? Let’s see. After some time, to abuse Othello’s ears That he is too familiar with his wife…" (Act 1, Scene 3, Line 374-378). This quote explains how Iago pretends to be Cassio’s best friend, gi .....
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Othello - Iago
.... makes me ugly.\" It is as if Iago has allowed us to follow his journey from revenge to finally madness.
Iago\'s emotive feelings are dictating the direction of the plot. The audience ponder whether Iago will gain some control and restore balance. By Act 3 sc. iii he has achieved half of his objectives. Cassio has been removed and Iago has replaced him as lieutenant. \'Now art thou my lieutenant\'. Instead Iago, full of rage and satisfaction that is plan is working so well continues his destructive plan. .....
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Othello - Manipulation To Gain Power
.... By pointing out that Othello is a Moor Iago causes Roderigo to become even more jealous, because of the fact that he lost Desdemona to someone who he feels is of a lesser race. It even seems that Iago is toying with Roderigo when he reveals that he is a fraud when he says, \"I am not what I am.\" (I.i.62) By using these tactics, Iago has almost gained total control of Roderigo.
Iago uses a different tactic to manipulate Brabantio. He changes Brabantio\'s way of looking at the marriage of his d .....
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Othello - The Greatest Tragedy
.... hearing this Othello flies into a mad fit by saying "O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!" (III, 3, 439). By his jealousy Othello makes himself very prone to many attacks on him by Iago.
Catharsis is the part of the play that moves the audience and attempts to put them in the actor’s shoes. Shakespeare does this by attacking the issue of love. It is a very touchy and emotional subject. Anyone who has ever fallen in love can relate to Othello and Desdemona. They are viewed as the .....
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Othello - The Tragic Hero
.... scapegoat.
Othello, the Moor, as many Venetians call him, is of strong character. He is very proud and in control of every move throughout the play. The control is not only of power but also of the sense of his being who he is, a great warrior. In Act I, Othello has a scuffle with Brabantio, who has come to kill him, but before anything could happen, Othello said:
\"Hold your hands, both of you of my inclining and the rest. Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it without a prompter\" (I .....
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Othello - Values And Attitudes
.... the play was written, the Queen of England had banned all blacks from entering the city. She spoke of them as "Negars and Moors which are crept into the realm, of which kind of people there are already here too many". It seems that Shakespeare is almost mocking the Queen by characterising Othello as a black man who has a high ranking position in the Army and who marries a white aristocratic women, against her fathers will.
Ruth Cowlig suggests that the presentation of Othello as the hero must .....
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Othello Passage
.... captivates interest and thought like no other.
Meter in a literary work, just like all other components, can be a key factor in affecting the reader\'s thoughts and mood. Of course, this being Shakespeare, meter was utilized with a definite purpose. Because this portion of the play is dramatic and suspenseful, an erratic, loose structure is appropriate. The author \"changed things up\" and \"kept the reader guessing\" with regard to the structure and meter--thus causing even more suspense than what the .....
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Othello: Iago The Con
.... it as a tool to forward his purposes. Throughout the story he is commonly known as, and commonly called, \"Honest Iago.\" He even says of himself, \"I am an honest man....\" [Act II, Scene III, Line 245] Trust is a very powerful emotion that is easily abused. Othello, \"holds [him] well;/The better shall [Iago\'s] purpose work on him.\" [pg. 1244, Line 362] Iago is a master of abuse in this case turning people\'s trust in him into tools to forward his own goals. His \"med\'cine works! Thus credulous fools .....
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Othello: Not Wisely But Too Well
.... true man should react when he has mistakenly killed his wife. However, Othello\'s words give a deeper insight into how he still misunderstands the situation. \"Who can control his fate?\" he asks, which gives pause to a theory of pure nobility. Placing responsibility in the stars - he calls Desdemona an \"ill-starred wench\" - is hardly a gallant course of action. (V.2.316, 323) It is beyond a doubt Othello\'s fault that all of this wreckage befalls him, and his still has not had a moment of recognition o .....
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Richard II
.... as we see later, in Act 1 scene 3, Richard\'s order for Mowbray and Bolingbroke\'s lives to answer their accusations was only to fuel Richard\'s own desire to be the centre of attention; it was his \'showman\' quality that lead him to do this, not his ability to take action when a situation that required good leadership skills arose.
In Act 3, scene 2, Richard, on his return to England, finds that his \'favourites\' (Bushy, Bagot and Greene) have all been killed by Bolingbroke. Richard is struck dow .....
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Richard II
.... and Mowbray, stopping both from exposing Richard\'s part in the murder.
Richard chooses at first to allow them to fight to the death \"... Your lives will answer it, / At Coventry upon St. Lambert\'s Day\" (I, i, 198-199). He allows the fight at first to go ahead, but shortly before the first blow is struck, Richard calls a halt to the fight and exiles them both, claiming \"... Our kingdom\'s earth should not be soil\'d / With that dear blood that it hath fostered\" (I, iii, 125-126). Bolingbroke .....
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Richard III
.... also be manipulative and persuasive so that if he is accused of a crime or if he finds himself between a rock and a hard place he is able to talk his way out or convince people that he did not commit the crimes in question. A villain must also have scapegoats to use if he is discovered or if he is in a dangerous situation. Richard devised a brutal stratagem to ascend the English throne. Brilliantly, he executed his plan. Heartlessly, he executed family, friends, and subjects. Richard did indeed display the .....
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Romeo And Juliet
.... the idea, but Juliet is not especially enthusiastic.
Commentary
These two scenes introduce Paris as Capulet\'s pick for Juliet\'s husband and, more broadly, establish the theme of parental influence over a child\'s happiness. In the last scene, it was shown how the hatred Capulet and Montague bear for each other flows down to affect the rest of their households and results in violent conflict, but here the influence is more subtle and mundane. Paris is a nobleman and a worthy choice to b .....
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Romeo And Juliet
.... Also, when he says \"Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink though off;\" (Act 4, Scene 1), he is suggesting that Juliet drink a potion so that she might feighn her own death and avoid marrying Paris. This is an extremely risky thing to do because anything might happen to Juliet while she unconscious.
Even after all Friar did to help Romeo and Juliet the play still ended in tragedy because of Friar Lawrences\' short sightedness.
When the Friar married Romeo Jul .....
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Romeo And Juliet
.... that she no longer be a Capulet or that Romeo no longer be a Montague. However she than realises that it doesn\'t matter what name a person has its what\'s inside and that definitely the truth no matter what Romeo name he would still be the same person. Juliet expresses this in Act 2 Scene 2 lines 45 - 49 \' So Romeo would, were he no Romeo call\'d, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo doth thy name; And for thy name, which is no part of thee, Take myself\'
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