The "honest Iago" is actually pure evil, and in the final scene of the play, he pushes everyone towards their tragic end, including the leading character Othello. ... At the outset, Iago's official reason for his hatred of the Moor, Othello, comes from the fact that Othello passed over him in choosing a lieutenant. ... Iago's own reason for his hatred of Othello is due to being passed over for a promotion, but Iago may have hated Othello even before that: Iago despises the fact that he is beneath a Moor. ... Furthermore, Iago detests his own pretending to be a faithful follower of...

• Word Count: 1279
• Approx Pages: 5

It cannot be long that Desdemona should continue her love to the Moor. ... These Moors are changeable in their wills-fill thy purse with money. ... 'The moor may unfold me to him- there stand I in much peril'. ... "If I shall stay [with Roderigo] I shall- against the Moor." ... The success of Iago's deceptive honesty is most clearly seen in the final scene of the play in which the truth of his dishonesty is revealed. ...

• Word Count: 2496
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had struck it from the shoulders of a vast pagan who had started up under the moon in the barbarian fields of Africa; and now it swung, gently, perpetually, in the attic rooms of the gigantic house of the lord who had slain him". ... But this fairytale-esque happy ending ...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, due to the monotony of life on the Yorkshire moors, her desperation to leave home and run off with a mysterious man for some excitement seems understandable. ... 'Wuthering Heights' is set in the lonely, bleak Yorkshire moors. ... Obsession is the final element that has been used to portray disturbed characters. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He accepts the reference to himself as the "moor", much more than Odin accepts the equivalent word "nigger". ... Nelson's captivation of Odin's innocence to explore racial impacts is further exhibited in his final speech, claiming that he "ain't different" from all the other whites, and that "drug dealers" were not associated in his commitment of crimes. ... In the final scene, Othello dies a heroic death. ...

• Word Count: 1401
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

You are the lord of duty,/ I am hitherto your daughter/ But here's my husband,/ And so much duty as my mother showed/ To you, preferring you before her father,/ So much I challenge that I may profess/ Due to the Moor my lord. ... One of Desdemona's most powerful speeches occurred in her final moments before Othello smothered her where she recited a song that she learned from one of her mother's maids, Barbary, "She was in love; and he proved mad And did forsake her. ...

• Word Count: 1594
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• Grade Level: High School

At 7:50 AM, the first wave of Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor, bombarding airfields and battleships moored at the concrete quays. ... (Prange, 377) Before he had died he gave one final speech about what happened at Pearl Harbor. ...

• Word Count: 1521
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• Grade Level: High School

This relationship is out of keeping however, with the rest of the book and turns the final chapters into that of a typical novel of the rime with the usual happy ending that has become accustomed to most novels in English Literature. ... However, one night while playing out on the moors, Catherine was injured at the neighbouring Thrushcross Grange by the Lintons" dog. ...

• Word Count: 2116
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Developments in Macbeth's language mirror the progress of his character, discuss. In this essay I will discuss the progression and development of Macbeth's language and character through the play. Macbeth is a mighty and ambitious warrior who, except in his ambition, is noble by nature. He has...

• Word Count: 2167
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School