Influential Factors Have you ever heard of the phrase, "there's a method to the madness?” Each and every day, people are faced with different life choices that need to be made, some more important than others. Some of these decisions can range from what we will wear or eat, to whether or not we will attend class that day. Regardless of their importance, humans have free will to make choices in our everyday lives. But are there underlying factors that influence our decision making? Although humans
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When Iago warns Brabantio, Desdemona’s father that her daughter elope without his permission Iago refers to Desdemona as an object when shouting” Awake! What ho Brabantio. Thieves, thieves! Look at your house, your daughter, and your bages! Thieves, thieves!” According to Iago, women are no different than a handbag, that can be stolen, causing men to disregard their opinions and feeling, using
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nature of Othello’s tragic downfall, as orchestrated by the duplicitous Iago. Othello’s tragic downfall captivates audiences through the intensity of his relationships with other characters. Within Othello, Shakespeare is able to involve the audience in the emotional conflict of the play, as the titular hero is manipulated by his symbiotic relationship with iago, leading to his self-destruction. Throughout the play, Iago relentlessly exploits Othello’s tragic flaw of absolutism through his devilish
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by the hatred of Iago to him that caused Iago to an external force to work with Othello’s jealousy, his tragic flaw, also to end in his own destruction and that of his wife, an equally admirable character. The situation of the betrayal of his trusted associate that indicated the plot to arouse pity and fear in the viewers the way Othello is tricked. The play ends in Catharsis, as a result of pity and fear to feel at seeing Othello tricked into murdering his wife. In contrast, Iago is discovered and
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continues Othello starts to lose his dignity and question his own racial identity as undesirable. The problems occur when Othello marries Desdemona, the young and beautiful white girl, and the daughter of the Senator Brabantio everything changes. Iago becomes jealous when Cassio is chosen to be Othello’s personal assistant. Brabantio`s comment tells us that everything is not all right: (lines.293-4) "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has deceived her father and may thee." By disobeying
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Mike Bozzo Professor Katie Robinson English 102 5 October 2014 The Blame Game The Downfall of Oedipus and Othello Both Othello and Oedipus are dramatic plays of tragic circumstances. Although written at different times and by different types of writers, each play has some of the same elements. Deceit, violence and self-destruction reign throughout. Each features men of great power reduced to nothing. However, the downfall of Oedipus is the work of the gods; the downfall of Othello is self-inflicted
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Who was William Shakespeare? Shakespeare is William Shakespeare, one of the English-speaking world's greatest playwrights and poets, who possessed a great knowledge of human nature and transformed the English theatre. Yet many facts of his life remain a mystery. Some have been acquired from painstaking looks at the records of the time, so that this summary is based on generally agreed facts. It has been said that we only know three things about Shakespeare: that he was born, married and died
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Comparing Oedipus and Othello For Oedipus and Othello “duty” should have their first priority. Othello’s duty was supposed to be the importance of his marriage, but he listened to Iago, ignored Desdemona, didn’t believe his own conscience, and his own heart. Oedipus’ duty was to defeat the Sphinx(which he does) free Thebes from heavy taxes(which he does) be a great king of Thebes and be a good husband, but instead he offends Creon, his brother-in-law and uncle; insults his friend, Tiresias
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murdered his wife whom had done no harm upon him; he was tricked by Iago. Furthermore, Oedipus cannot live with himself after the truth came out that he had murdered his own father and married his mother. Both of these psychological dramas remain timeless because the motifs within them remain to exist in today’s culture. First, in Shakespeare’s “Othello the Moor of Venice," Iago wants to rid Othello and take his place. Iago convinces Othello that Desdemona is the mistress of Cassio, and has been
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this illustrates that Iago has no intentions of being true to anyone, as he must wear a mask for the time being in order to falsely preserve his trust and friendship with Othello. Furthermore, Shakespeare brilliantly utilizes Iago’s deceptive and manipulative behavior to demonstrate how deceit is evident in anyone, as there are many who are willing to disguise themselves by hypothetically wearing masks, in order to secretly pose as someone they are not. As a result, Iago is successful in his wicked
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