As Othello falls into Iago's "web of deceit," Shakespeare portrays Othello's change from a humble, soft-spoken, loving, and rational general to an animalistic, malicious monster who uses Iago's bestial vocabulary. ... The symbolic "green-eyed monster" is of Othello's own mind. ...
Although her arguments remain strong, the weakness in her character emerges, for she cannot see the monster that her husband is becoming, and failing to realize that he trusts Iago, a man who is extremely competitive with him, over his very wife's word. ...
Although her arguments remain strong, the weakness in her character emerges, for she cannot see the monster that her husband is becoming, and failing to realize that he trusts Iago, a man who is extremely competitive with him, over his very wife's word. ...
Othello (the play) presents the audience with a disturbing picture of jealousy, yet an inspiring picture of constancy in love. In Othello, jealousy is presented to the audience by Shakespeare as a disturbing predator, which takes control and attempts to destroy constancy in love. The jealousy po...
King Lear, like all texts, has been interpreted in a number of ways. The way an audience reads the play is shaped by the time, place and culture in which they live. This is illustrated through the two very different readings of the play: the Elizabethan perspective and Richard Eyre's perspective. Wh...
Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...
In each production of Henry V, the emphasis changes: Henry can appear to be "the mirror of all Christian Kings" or as a cynic who uses the, seemingly corrupt, church to justify his actions. The play is full of noble speeches, heroic battles, and valiant English underdogs fighting their way to victor...
