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In 7 pages this paper analyzes the evil represented by villains Iago and Claudius in these Shakespearean plays. There are 3 sourc...

love of Othello for Desdemona, while it seemed to hold such optimistic promise in the beginning, was so excessive, it blinded him ...

In 5 pages the ways in which Shakespeare developed the themes of mistrust within the context of the unhappy relationships between ...

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

In five pages this report discusses the significance of the handkerchief in this tragedy by William Shakespeare. Three sources ar...

Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...

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...

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

Moor, and his looks and primitive demeanor are woefully out of place in civilized Venice. He may have married the esteemed Senato...

my cold blood, I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me" (Much Ado About...

differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...

no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...

of his own standing among his peers would have ignored or challenged Iago. But Othello fully agrees with Iagos voiced concern that...

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...

speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

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

but on their bonds with other men who guarantee their honor and reputation" (Bloom 89). This is demonstrated through the characte...

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

more many people are punished for not heeding the word of God. There are numerous people and numerous situations presented in G...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

In eight pages this paper argues that the King is victimized by his own arrogance in a consideration of how the theme of hubris or...

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...