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This paper explain that the use of animal imagery in William Shakespeare's "Othello, the Moor of Venice" reflects the base instincts, which bring about the tragedy of the main character and his innocent wife. The author points out that negatively characterizing Othello as an animal might imply that he is as base and beastly as Iago, but his honor and nobility throughout the rest of Act I makes the reader doubt that Othello is the animal. The paper concludes that comparing the characters to animals suggests that the play is not about race, politics or social convention but rather about the predator and the prey, which is something deeper and more innate than the trappings of society. The paper includes several quotations.

From the Paper
"The innocent and good Cassio is deceived into believing himself a beast because of the machinations of Iago. Knowing that Cassio cannot tolerate alcohol, Iago encourages him to get drunk and orchestrates a fight in which Cassio appears the violent aggressor. Such behavior, especially because it interrupts the marriage bed of Othello and Desdemona, is perceived negatively by Othello who dismisses Cassio from his service. Cassio then likens himself to an animal, disparaging the effect of alcohol that "put an enemy in their mouths ....transform ourselves into beasts!""

Tags:viper, dog, tragedy, society, characters

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This paper discusses Othello's soliloquy from William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice". This soliloquy is critical for framing the dramatic center of the play. Using the play as the primary text and beginning with a brief summary of what has happened up to this point, the paper presents a discussion of the critical third scene soliloquy of Othello. An analysis of the characters of both Othello and Iago follows logically into an explanation of Artistotle's catharsis, the emotional roots of the play.

From the Paper
"We find that Iago, who has been scheming from the first Act of the work, turns his full powers upon Othello. From line thirty-four and following, we see Iago directly attack Othello's emotions, both to suggest that Cassio is up to no good with Othello's wife, and that she herself is succumbing to his charms as seducer. "Ha! I like not that!" Iago proclaims when he and Othello come upon Desdemona and Cassio speaking together (III.iii.34). The timing of events is very important in Act III. Iago anticipates and manipulates the other characters so skillfully that they seem to be acting simultaneously of their own free will and as Iago's puppets."

Tags:moor, venice, iago

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This paper argues that "Othello" is a play filled with sharply contrasted oppositional forces that are often in the form of deep-seated human emotions. Through an exploration of Venice and Cypress, the two main symbolic locations of the play, the paper considers how characters reinforce the play's themes. For example, the writer notes that the play's move from Venice to Cypress is a move from order and rationality to lawlessness and chaos. The writer discusses that it is in Cypress that Iago's poison takes hold, where he is able to bend Othello's rational mind to feed on jealousy and revenge. The writer concludes that the two major geographic settings in the play, Venice and Cypress, are symbolically reinforced by the principle characters and events, which occur in these two locations.

From the Paper
"Othello is fraught with sharply contrasted oppositional forces; dichotomies, often in the form of deep-seated human emotions, abound. Themes explored in Othello include the contrast between surface manner - polished social forms - and inner nature, which is portrayed as a dangerous force waiting just beneath the veneer of social convention. The most obvious example of this is Iago's practiced exterior of a plain and honest soldier, a dutiful follower of Othello, and Iago's inner self - a diabolical inner man bent on chaos, destruction, and revenge. But virtually all of the play's major characters share a dangerous inner life - all but Desdemona and Michael Cassio. Even calm, rational Othello is driven to near madness as the Serpent jealousy takes hold of him. Such oppositional forces are central to an understanding of the play. The forces of fear and chaos are prominent themes, threatening to sweep away the calm and stability of the city of Venice, a city - at least in the play - ruled and maintained by order, rationality, and law."

Tags:Shakespeare, Othello, Iago, the Moor, Desdemona, Cassio, Roderigo

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The paper discusses how Viola's speech in Act II defines the gender, verbal manipulation, and patriarchal aspects of the theme of disguise in William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". The paper shows how by understanding the gender roles allocated to men, she then begins to realize how she can manipulate her adversary verbally in her speech and how strong the power of being a man is in a patriarchal society.

Tags:shakespeare, twelfth, violet

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This paper reviews the play 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare with a special focus on the relationship between the characters Cesario, or Viola in disguise, and Maria, Lady Olivia's lady-in-waiting.

From the Paper
"William Shakespeare's middle-period comedy, 'Twelfth Night', is one of several plays he wrote that deal with mistaken identity, gender, and facade. In the play, young Viola, a girl who has high social status by birth, is involved in a shipwreck and must survive in a new and strange world with only her wits and her wiles. Viola disguises herself as a boy, Cesario, and finds employment and shelter with a wealthy nobleman, Orsino. Finding herself falling for Orsino, Viola also finds that her new employer is smitten by a fellow member of the aristocracy, Lady Olivia, who in turn falls for "Cesario," who she does not realize is young Viola. One of the interesting relationships in this play is that found between Viola and Olivia's young lady-in-waiting, Maria."

Tags:shakespeare, relationship, twelfthnight

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This study examines the role of jealousy, submissive female gender roles, and racism within Othello by William Shakespeare. In many ways, Desdemona pays a submissive role to Othello, as she cannot rise above her fears and confront her husband on the grave error of his theories about her infidelity. Furthermore, the issue of race helps Iago deploy his plan, as both he and Desdemona's father are racist in their jealousy of Othello's success. In this manner, jealousy, submissive female gender roles, and racism are constructed to bring a tragic ending to the once hopeful marriage of Othello and Desdemona. The issue of jealousy begins with Iago's anger at Cassio getting a promotion in Othello's elite guard.

Tags:race, jealousy, social

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The paper discusses how William Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights of English literature today. He is still one of the majestic emblems of the British people and one of the great representatives of his time. The paper explores his limited biography and explains that little is known for certain about his life. The paper illustrates how Shakespeare experienced one of the most turbulent periods in history and describes in detail the era in which he lived. The paper looks at "Othello", one of Shakespeare's most acclaimed works.

From the Paper
"Despite rigorous research made to complete Shakespeare's biography, little is known for certain about his life. He was born at Stratford-upon- Avon in April 1564. His family was rather prosperous and highly regarded in town. However, by 1582, he had married Ann Hathaway, a woman eight years older than him; a fact that especially at that time stirred some controversy, as it was considered to be against the moral values of the era. Nonetheless, they had three children. The records show scarce evidence of his existence until his arrival in London in 1585. "There is no tradition, not universally accepted, that he fled From Stratford because he was in trouble for deed stealing, and had fallen foul of Sir Thomas Lucy, the local magnate; another that he was for some time a school master." (Shakespeare, 7)"

Tags:England, turbulence, biography, playwright

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The following paper compares and contrasts the themes, poetic techniques, choices of description and unique individual styles of the following poets and poems: William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 29' and Christopher Marlowe's, 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love', Michael Drayton's 61 and Sir Philip Sidney's 20,William Shakespeare's, Sonnet I and Walter Raleigh's, A Farewell to False Love,Sir Philip Sidney's 7 and William Shakespeare's, Sonnet 18,William Shakespeare's, Sonnet 55 and William Shakespeare's, Sonnet 71.

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"These two poems share one common theme, the happiness that their love brings them. But these two poems achieve this in very different ways. Marlowe's poem reads as a love poem. He is addressing his love and telling her how good life will be if she will be his love. At the same time he is also telling himself how much he needs her love. Marlowe does this simply by focusing on what life would be like. He focuses on all the pleasures that will come. In the first section he says that they will gather all the pleasures that are offered. He is referring here to how his life is not complete without her love and how everything will be more beautiful and more appreciated if she is there. He describes everything as perfect and calm. Phrases such as "melodious birds", "fragrant posies", "pretty lambs" and "silver dishes" all add to the feeling of contentment. The lines "a gown made of the finest wool, which from our pretty lambs we pull" is very meaningful. The fact that he describes the lambs that the wool will come from as "pretty" is interesting, as is the choice of the word "pull". Pull does not reflect the same contentment as it is a more forceful term....."

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This paper discusses the influence of William Shakespeare on twenty first century theater. Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who he lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. The paper shows that no other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare had a tremendous influence on culture and literature throughout the world and he contributed greatly to the development of the English language. The paper examines how many words and phrases from Shakespeare's plays and poems have become part of our speech. It shows that Shakespeare's ideas on subjects such as romantic love, heroism, comedy and tragedy have helped shape the attitudes of millions of people. His portrayals of historical figures and events have influenced our thinking more than what has been written in history books. The world has admired and respected many great writers, but only Shakespeare has generated such enormous continuing interest. The paper discusses his different works for theater. Costumes trends, audiences and sets are also discussed. It also discusses the formation of Globe theater by Shakespeare.

Outline:
Abstract
Background
Life of Shakespeare
Shakespeare Career
Shakespeare's Influences on Theater
Costumes and Sets
Audience and Plays
Globe Theater
Structure of the Globe
Shakespeare and the End of the Globe
Development of Theater
Conclusion

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"Everything had to be conveyed to the audience through words and there is little doubt that the audience had better memories and perhaps higher powers of attention than people do today, so that they took in and retained the information given to them. The majority people in Shakespeare's day could not read or write so they had to rely on word of mouth and on memory; this is in evidence in Romeo and Juliet when the Servant is sent to bid Capulet's guests to dinner. He can't read the list which he has been given and he asks Romeo to read it to him; he hears it read once and then goes off to find the guests; yet, there are well over thirteen people on the list so his memory must have been extremely retentive."

Tags:James, Burbage, Romeo, and, Juliet, Pyramus, Thisbe, Hamlet

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The figure of the hero is set apart from the common herd of ordinary men by virtue of his special qualities and abilities. In some works, this separateness is literal ? he is in a strange land apart from his own kin. To see how this alienation enhances the tale of the hero?s conflict, this paper examines the works "The Odyssey" (Homer), "Beowulf" (author unknown) and "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice" (William Shakespeare).

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"However, when they must rely on or cast their lot with other (lesser) humans, tragedy results. Odysseus nearly fails in the journey and his men are taken from him, when they unwisely slaughter Helios's livestock: "They lost their own lives because of their recklessness, the fools", (Odyssey, Book I, lines 7-8, page 3) and nearly Odysseus's life too. Similarly, when Beowulf fights with the dragon, his cowardly men run away, and the aged chieftain is killed, although he first kills the dragon. "Too few supporters flocked to our prince when affliction came," says Wiglaf. (Beowulf, lines 2882-2883, page 142) Poor Othello unwisely allows Iago to impose on him, and ultimately kills the innocent Desdemona and himself. Thus, the warrior hero survives and prospers only so long as he remains solitary."

Tags:Grendel, Alcinous, Breca, Wulfgar, Iago