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The tragedy of Othello shows the downfall of the protagonist, Othello, by the deception of Iago and his fatal flaw of jealousy. The idea of striving for power contributes to Iago’s determination to bring down Othello after Cassio’s promotion to lieutenant over him. Power also acts as a reason for Othello killing his wife because…

Othello is a masterpiece from Shakespeare, but the plot is copied from the original source, Cinthio’s Hecatommithi. Although the two versions are practically similar, Shakespeare makes some innovations that separate his play from its original source. Othello adds up several characters more to thicken the plot and the characters are given names. Perhaps the most…

Iago’s Soliloquies in William Shakespeare’s Play Othello “Othello” is a tragedy which was written in 1622 by William Shakespeare, the title “Othello” is eponymous which means that a character gives its name to the title. Othello is not the main character, where as in “Macbeth” Macbeth was the main character. Right from the beginning Shakespeare…

Iago is clearly the most poisonous and virulent character in ‘Othello’ and one of the most distinctive villains in the entire Shakespeare collection. Act III scene 3 is the pivotal scene in which his villainy begins to unfold and this has a growing malignancy over Othello and his relationship with Desdemona. Act III is a…

This is an essay on the play Othello. This essay will explain hoe Iago poisons Othello’s mind throughout the play. I will describe Iago and Othello’s character, also how Iago poisons his mind and how Othello’s character changes throughout the play. In the play we study the character of Iago and how he acts towards…

To Elizabethan society in the late 16th century Italy meant ‘crime rather than art, the devious head rather then the simple heart’. Italian women were seen as ‘very lewd and wicked’, with many thousands paying ‘monthly unto the pope for the sinful use of their bodies’, a quote from a Londoner around the time that…

These quotes may also give the reader an Insight Into laws past, showing on the other hand that he had experience ‘In the field’ of battle, and that he had, judging by his evident disappointment at lack of promotion, served for quite a long time at Toothless side. This is also shown when he states…

About the Play “Othello” William Shakespeare, a well-known playmaker, wrote “The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice”, one of the great works and one of the famous tragedies. It was on October 6, 1621, when the bookseller Thomas Walkley enlisted the play “Othello” into the Register Of Stationers Company. And on 1622, the play…

One of the reasons that the works of Shakespeare are so renowned is simply for the fact that he can beautifully create moments of happiness, sadness, glory, agony, misery, love, betrayal – and anything else which may fall In between (Krause 09). There are numerous situations in real life In which one person may fall…

In today’s society, modern alienation means historical discontinuity, loss, and despair, with rejection not only historically, but also socially from one’s society without previous attachments. Reasons for this might be because of a person’s appearance, nationality, or religion. An example of this is shown The Power Of one when PK suffers as the only English…