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

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

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

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

idle pleasures of these days. / Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous" (Shakespeare I i). In Othello Iago tells us, "And whats h...

Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters house. In this scene, prior to Roderigo and Iagos disru...

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...

for himself - with a kiss. Her husband retorts, "Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows o...

military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian, was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal pass...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...

rebellious for "she chose the man who she wanted to marry and felt it unnecessary that her father intervene in their relationship....

together and makes possible the fraternal and hierarchic bonds of chivalric solidarity" (Hahn). This contrasts sharply with the fo...

flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas father and as such would hav...

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

a larger than life figure. He is perfect. He is a leader as well as a handsome and delightful mate for Desdemona. Because Othello ...

the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...

end. The tragic nature of the story does rely on the supposition that Othello is indeed propelled to do something because he is ...

a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...

biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

perception and myth, was a place characterized by both barbarianism and exoticism, inhabited by wild beasts and by people with env...