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woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

black people were considered to be outsiders in the most profound sense of this word as they were associated in the public mind wi...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

immediately to fetch the handkerchief. Emilia, Desdemonas maid and Iagos wife, comments: 4. "Is not this man jealous?" (III.4.99)....

discern what his true motivation really is. He is vengeful and wants a particular job he did not get. He feels dispossessed and ev...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

of Cassio. Cassio was given the position, by Othello, that Iago wanted and so Iago employs the usefulness of Cassio, pretending to...

of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...

to be successful. Iago does seem to make an impact on Roderigo at one point, however, when Roderigo claims imagines Desdemona and ...

character, Iago is also difficult to grasp, because he has no motivation that we can find to do what he does. It appears that he s...

he would have no one to do this task for him. And, Iago could not have well done all the spying himself for that would have looked...

he is black, Othello is often referred to in derogatory terms such as "the thick-lips" (I.i.66); an "old black ram" (I.i.88); and ...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...

that Iago always harbored a "primal envy" against Othello (Bloom 2). After all, he was a native of Venice, and therefore felt he ...

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

his prowess as a warrior that has drawn Desdemona to him. When his loss of battles to fight on the actual battlefield come to an e...

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

verbal appearance and actual reality that Othello addresses throughout the play, wavering back and forth as a means by which to es...

this and continues throughout the play to attempt to prove that he is worthy of his new positions. At the onset of the play Othe...

we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...

of perspective came about. Though various ploys were attempted to regain old sorts of power, in the end, there was a rise in the m...

to share Iagos disgust and refers to Desdemonas acceptance of Othello as her "gross revolt" (I.i.134) and Roderigo shows his dista...

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

he should rank higher than he does and he also feels that he should have Desdemona. In these regards we see a man who is clearly f...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...