This handkerchief is a hugely valued love token of Othello's marriage, thus the sight of another man in possession of it causes him to reach the pinnacle of jealousy, even motivating him to execute Desdemona. ... Iago bases his manipulation in the analogy wherein "our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners" presenting humankind as having free will that releases it from the constraints of the great chain of being. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(p.24) Storytelling provided Eva with an escape from her "world [which] was bounded by the iron railings of the garden", suggesting her life was restricted to the boundaries of the dead Eurocentric Professor's house. ... Realising that Rolf is "slow to act in matters of the heart", Eva takes the initiative and allows their relationship to progress further: "[they] made love with such ardour that all the wood in the house glowed like polished gold" (p.271). ...

• Word Count: 1714
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, as the play progresses and Iago's "monstrous birth- (I,iii) begins to sprout in Othello's "garden- (I,iii), he begins to conform to the assumptions and expectations which he so strongly contradicted in the open stages of the play. ... 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 (I,iii) Interestingly, when Othello is told that he is to go to Cyprus, and Desdemona is asked for her opinion on the matter, she explains that: If I be left behind/ ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many different cultural contexts are the garden from which my identity grows, and although I would not consider myself a "cultural broker" or a "third culture kid," the ways in which I perform my culture leads to the creation of an enriched cultural blossoming of my identity (p.207-209, Martin, Judith N., & Thomas K. ...

• Word Count: 2124
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate