Desdemona Shakespeare's sweetest star A Outline of the role of Desdemona in the text : Desdemona is the sickly sweet innocent in Shakespeare's play Othello. ... Brabantio tried to find a suitor for his daughter like any father of the time but she rejected them all. ... How to respect you. You are the lord of duty. ... It does not really let us see any other side of Desdemona's personality we have seen it all before. 2 ) " Alas the heavy day : Why do you weep Am l the motive of these tears, my lord If haply you my father do suspect a...

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"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive" (Alexis Carrel). ... "Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now? ... Shakespeare showed how love can be a big factor for characters whether you are a general or even a prostitute, can cause jealousy and as a result losing your temper and eventually it could lead to death. ... Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona; That which so often you did bid me steal/....

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William Shakespeare presents an excellent leader but a poor reasoner in Othello. ... For the first time, it appears that Othello is at a loss with what to do with his power: "Do you go back dismayed? ... It is a noble speech, and a dubiously noble ending, but still, like Othello, flawed. ... He holds back the company of men who seek to take him to prison or worse with a hand and "Soft, you." ... Shakespeare sets up Othello as his perfect leader: no one ever questions his ability to conduct an army (because he does not engage in combat during the play, this opinion must be drawn from the la...

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This is illustrated in the following quote, IAGO - " I"ll tell you what you shall do. ... Importune her to help to put you in your place again. ... For a woman like Desdemona, who is surrounded by lords and governors and most importantly, being the wife of a general, a good name as a loyal woman is everything. ... (Shakespeare 4.1.278-9). ... (Shakespeare 4.1.226-9). ...

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William Shakespeare has come to be known as arguably the finest sculptor of language through his plays and poems. ... Interestingly, Othello does not make an appearance until Act I scene ii, where Shakespeare uses his first appearance to contradict the audience's expectations that were developed in scene one. ... In Act I, scene iii when Othello "calls for the lady-, Desdemona in her first appearance on stage challenges her father, explaining to him that: I am hitherto you daughter. But here's my husband/ And so much duty as my mother showed/ to you, preferring you before her fa...

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" (Shakespeare Act 3 Scene 3 Lines 75-76). ... " (Shakespeare Act 5 Scene 2 Lines 0-17). ... "Make it a darling, like your precious eye. ... " (Shakespeare Act 3 Scene 4 Lines 76). ... Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? ...

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Othello undoubtedly is passionately in love with Desdemona for at the mere sight of her, Othello, himself, comments: It gives me wonder great as my content To see you here before me. ... When Othello finds out 5 Cassio, the accused adulterer, has a look-a-like in his possession; Othello thinks Iago's case is proved. ... "William Shakespeare's Othello,"" Blooms Notes. ... Shakespeare's Tragedies, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1978. Shakespeare, William. ...

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From your consideration of act one, how far would you agree with this description of Othello and Desdemona? Shakespeare's protagonist Othello is an isolated black male playing an active role in Venetian society. ... Her first speech is full of confidence and she shows a great amount of control which the audience where prepared for as Brabantio described her as "a maiden never bold" unlike other women and not like a "moth of peace". From this the audience would have arrived at a conclusion Desdemona was independent and a strong character not fragile like a moth. In the speech she confes...

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Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Shakespeare's Othello are very similar in many ways, in that they both use akin aspects of characters to reveal how they are alike. ... And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell! ... In Shakespeare's Othello, it was said that the handkerchief, a key symbol in this play, represented love, but if it was lost, loathe. ... Salinger and Shakespeare both utilized nave characters to prove that illusions only cause anguish and distress. ... Like Franklin Delano Rooselvelt once said, "Th...

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In Shakespeare's "Othello", Iago carefully and masterfully entraps Othello into believing that his wife, Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio. ... All the constant declarations of love spoken so openly and as though thoughtlessly throughout the play would be enough to fool anyone, "I think you think I love you...I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness." ... To my mind, this is due to Iago's animal like attitude to love and life. ... Othello : It gives me wonder great as my content to see you here before me. ... "How now, what do you here alone?" ...

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Moment of Weakness Throughout William Shakespeare's infamous play Othello, it is evident to the reader that it is a tale of passion, ego, deceit, and betrayal. ... Although this scene is typically overlooked by readers, Shakespeare carefully positions this scene to emphasize the deeper relationship between Iago and Cassio. ... Iago squeezes his legs like that of a snake over O's ribcage while screaming the lines in his face. ... When you love someone, you experience the awful sinking of heart and the uncontrollable premonition of disaster. ... Why then In God's name did y...

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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. ... I said the mountains looked like white elephants. ... But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you'll like it?... In Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello: "Othello is jealous, Iago is envious, Jealousy is typically over that one possesses and fears to lose, while envy may be over something one ha...

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Shakespeare's Othello holds a most exotic, complex and interesting villain of his tragedies. ... By far, in terms of stage time, soliloquies and the like, Iago supersedes any other character. ... But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings or unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion."... Shakespeare does not allow any attention to shift from Iago. ... He makes Roderigo to appear like a 'fool'. ...

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Shakespeare's play Othello involves 3 main themes. ... This tells the audience no matter what jealousy will eventually get to you. ... I like not that". ... You are able to see how badly women were mistreated back in the 17th century. ...

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./ To you I am bound for life and education;/ My life and education both do learn me/How to respect you. 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. ... There are many themes and representation throughout this play, as with any play "especially Shakespeare, like the color of Othello's skin (a visual separation that amplifies Othello's mental separation from the other characters). ...

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Shakespeare's "Othello" tells the story of a man who is driven by jealousy and the influence of others to kill his wife and eventually himself. ... It becomes clear that he knows what he is about to do is wrong: "Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars" (5.2.2). ... By referring to Desdemona as having skin that is whiter than "snow" and smooth like "alabaster," which in the footnotes is defined as "stone used in tombs," Othello is showing some initial reluctance to hurt someone he has seen as being so pure and almost angelic, like a fresh snowfa...

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"Jealousy is a state of fear, suspicion, revenge or envy caused by a real or imagined threat or challenge to one's possessive instincts. It may be provoked by rivalry, in sexual love, by competition or by desires for the qualities or possessions of another." The tragedy of Othello is the story of je...

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