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. ... Shakespeare wrote this in pro's and he is showing Desdemona's caring side. ... The way in which Shakespeare structured this line is simple. ... Shakespeare has structured it so Desdemona is asking questions to begin with then answering Othello's. ... Shakespeare uses verse because this is a very formal plea. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare's protagonist Othello is an isolated black male playing an active role in Venetian society. ... The reader's first encounter with Othello is in act one scene two where Iago informs Othello that Roderigo has been spreading foul reports of Othello's behaviour. ... There is no doubt Othello has the respect of some important personnel such as the Duke as Othello is welcomed as "valiant Othello" which shows a mark of respect alone as he is called "valiant" and called by the name "Othello" not "Moor". ... However in this case the respect between Brabantio and Othello is no...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nelson's modern appropriation of William Shakespeare's Othello transcends the Shakespearean concepts through time and culture, but also integrates 21st century values through the modification of characters. ... Shakespeare's Othello outlines the protagonist with barbarity as seen in his characterisation of "thick lips" and the recurring use of animal imagery such as "an old black ram". ... 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 h...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Shakespeare's Othello is a book that is open to a wide range of different critical interpretations. ... In Shakespeare's time, black people were seen as inferiors as humans and also in their roles in society. But Othello is different. ... With Iago and Othello, Shakespeare challenges racist attitudes by depicting Othello as being black-coloured, but being the good guy and Iago as the white, but evil man. ... It is likely that Shakespeare intended Bianca's character to be that of a common prostitute and from this scene, this can be interpreted by feminists as saying that ...

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Othello by William Shakespeare is a classic play that has been successfully created into a movie. ... In Othello, we are introduced to Othello, Desdemona, Brabantio, Iago, Roderigo, and Cassio. ... This shows that Othello has a lot of power and superiority. ... Othello wears red, white and black colours, which show his power. ... Iago in the first scene seems to be with Roderigo against Othello. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare's Othello holds a most exotic, complex and interesting villain of his tragedies. ... Shakespeare does not allow any attention to shift from Iago. Shakespeare at the very beginning of the play does not bother to develop the character of the protagonist Othello, but rather places greater emphasis on plot development. ... He has similar success with Cassio and Othello. ... He will do anything to destroy the goodness of Othello. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While Shakespeare's Othello is full of devious acts of immorality, Iago is behind each one of them. ... As Othello opens the first notions that Iago has an extreme hatred of Othello become abundantly clear. ... Further in the scene Iago brings another of his reasons of hatred of Othello to the fore front when he declares that Othello has slept with his wife. ... With Cassio and Desdemona now holding meetings away from Othello, Iago has the opportunity to imbed a seed of jealousy in Othello. The first case of Iago manipulating Othello comes when Othello sees Cassio leave Desdemona whe...

• Word Count: 1422
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School