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Past and Present Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

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

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"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...

Elizabethan Social Outsider Status of Othello

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

3 Attributes of Othello

do not assume that he would be a man who was easily swayed against this woman he loves. But, as the play progresses we see his wea...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Animal Characteristics and Ambrose Bierce

In a paper consisting of eight pages Bierce's mirroring of human and animal characteristics is explored and these traits are compa...

Renaissance Humanism and William Shakespeare's Othello

In three pages this essay discusses how the humanism philosophy of the Renaissance is represented in William Shakespeare's tragic ...

Othello Defended

In seven pages this paper analyzes William Shakespeare's protagonist Othello in a sociological and psychological defense of his wi...

Defending the Character of Othello

In nine pages this paper defends the title character of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. There is included a bibliography....

Othello Characterization and the Life of William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper discusses how Othello reflects the life of William Shakespeare with both the play and the film adaptation ...

Iago's Character in William Shakespeare's Othello II

In three pages this paper analyzes the complexities of the Iago character in Othello by William Shakespeare. There is no bibliogr...

Tragedy Structure and Othello by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper presents a definition of tragedy and explains how Othello structurally fits within the parameters establis...

Defining the Tragic Hero in William Shakespeare's Othello

man who seeks respectability in a white mans society. Despite his many military victories and his marriage to Senator Brabantios ...

Honorable, Admirable, and Unchanged Character of Othello

In one page this essay analyzes the last words of Othello and what they reveal about his character. There is no bibliography incl...

Russ McDonald's 'Presentational Theater' and William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Hamlet, and Othello

This paper consists of five pages in which Russ McDonald's 'presentational theater' theory is used to analyze illustrations from S...

The Use of Critical Sources in Understanding Works of Shakespeare

in joining such a group. By discussing books and plays with peers, an individual can hear other opinions on subject matter that h...

Identity and its Power in the Shakespeare Heroines Mariana and Ophelia

In six pages this comparative analysis of the heroines featured in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Othello compares ...

Overview of Postmodern Views on William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

Malevolent Characters and the Catalysts Represented by Their Actions

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

Othello and Richard III by William Shakespeare

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

Oedipus and Othello

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

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

Analyzing Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

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

Friendship Between Othello and Iago According to Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Contrasts in William Shakespeare's Othello

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

Act 3, Scene 4 of William Shakespeare's Othello

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

Flaws in Characters Vivian Bearing, King Oedipus, Willy Loman, and Othello

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

William Shakespeare's 'Romantic Revisions'

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

Exercise in Dante's 'Inferno'

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

Wives' Lives in Othello and A Doll's House

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences in wifely roles between Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Oth...