The value of woman in the Elizabethan and 21st society is elucidated through comparing Shakespeare's and Nelson's representation of Desi and Desdemona. ... The little of her remaining sense of identity continues to quaver as Shakespeare makes no reference to her name in Othello's and Brabantio's speeches, depicting her as a possession which is fought over by men. ... In Shakespeare's Othello, the protagonists' supreme motivation to kill Desdemona is to maintain justice and order. Under fear that Desdemona will "betray more men" if she doesn't die, O...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Shakespeare's "Othello," illustrates the Venetian society's gender and class hierarchies in seventeenth century renaissance Italy. ... Brabantio disowns her for she goes against his presumptions of "what she feared to look on " [1.3.99] and is the first to plant the doubt of adultery by saying that she will betray other men for having betrayed him. ... The preoccupation with purity creates two extremities of the Angel and the whore, leaving no middle space which the woman could occupy. ... The use of certain words in different contexts by different characters allows for the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice (or just Othello for short) was a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare. ... Othello speaks in his defense saying that Desdemona one hundred percent agreed to marry him that there were no tricks involved and that the are both very much in love. ... Once they got to Cyprus they saw their was no battle just a party but Othello and Cassio were to keep watch anyway. ... Lago arguably one of Shakespeare's best villain because he analyzes the fears and weaknesses of the other characters and uses that knowledge to break them. In the play, it glori...

• Word Count: 1807
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The following will reveal oppression as depicted in Hemingway's Hills like White Elephants, Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello and Chopin's The Story of an Hour and the ramification of manipulation, envy, and freedom. ... Being deceptive with good intention is not easily grasped by others because the way manipulation and deception is perceived; no one associates deception with good, but when manipulation is used viciously for the gain of your satisfaction and for the despair of another there is an inevitable brutal voyage in which there is no redemption. ... Jig never says &q...

• Word Count: 2229
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate