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Made Cassio His Lieutenant Cassio His Lieutenant Othello
843 wordsIn the drama Othello by William Shakespeare Othello, the protagonist, is a Moorish general in the Venetian army. Othello marries Desdemona, the daughter of Brabrantio, without her fathers consent. Desdemona proves her love for Othello to her father and Brabant io gives his consent. Othello is sent to Cyprus to fight the Turks whose ships are destroyed on the journey to Cyprus. While in Cyprus Iago tricks Othello into believing that Cassio, Othello's lieutenant slept with Desdemona. Iago hates Ot...
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View Of Women Time And Place
1,217 words... ello is "a treason of the blood" (I... i. 160) and he feels that society's acceptance of Othello will reduce Venetian statesman to "bond slaves and pagans" (I. ii. 99). He also believes that Desdemona could not love "the sooty bosom of such a thing" (I. ii. 70). One who she feared "To fall in love with what she feared to look on" (I. iii. 98). The idea of race developed as a way to explain social divisions in a society that thought it believed in equality. And what constitutes race has chang...
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The Scientific Revolution Medieval World View
1,047 words... eric form impose the same perfection on the larger universe? Working from this presupposition, Kepler proceeded to elaborate a theory of planetary orbits. Though there was a discrepancy in the system at the orbit of Jupiter, Kepler refused to fault the system itself and credited the error to a flaw in the tables of Copernicus. He immediately proceeded to publish is findings. As Ptolemy had entitled his work the Almagest, or the Greatest, Kepler entitled his own explanation of the way things ...
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741 wordsIn the year 1295 A. D. , after an absence of twenty-four years, Maffeo, Nicole, and Marco Polo returned to their hometown of Venice, Italy. The Polo trio looked like strangers to their fellow citizens: they wore bizarre and ragged clothes and spoke in an accented tongue. It is said that their own family neither recognized nor acknowledged them due to their foreign appearance. Marco, having left Venice as a young man of 17, was now 41 years old. He had spent most of his life traveling in Asia. Ha...
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Cassio And Desdemona Othello
1,262 wordsImperfections such as pride and jealousy are signs of an insecure personality. The Othello in the beginning of the play is a noble character. His pride of a great soldier and general is shown in the power of his speech in the beginning of the play. Othello! | s sense of his own pride can be seen when he said, ! Ssmy services which I have done the signory shall out-tongue his complaints. !" (I, ii, 18 - 19) And also all the things he talks about to Desdemona are his stories as a soldier. This sho...
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Helen Vendler Sonnet 60
685 wordsHelen Vendler, Sonnet 60 Helen Vendler thinks that Sonnet 60 is a perfect example of the 4 - 4 - 4 - 2 Shakespearean sonnet form. In her critique of Sonnet 60 Helen Vendler noted that each quatrain of this sonnet had a new modification in concept and tone while the couplet-here a reversing couplet contradicting the body of the sonnet-adds yet a fourth dimension. Time[-s] is one member of the Couplet Tie and the word stand[-s] is the other. Helen Vendler paid her attention to the word stand, its ...
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Act Ii Scene Act I Scene
911 wordsOthello, the Moor of Venice Throughout history, powerful empires with boundless control have had a tendency to fall victim to corruption. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. William Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor of Venice contains several themes, but one theme in particular supports the truth of this knowledge. In Othello, the Moor of Venice, the theme of control is one that causes corruption. Othello's control is stolen by Iago and, Iago's overbearing control of Othello's e...
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Othello Iago Cassio
502 wordsIago Othello Summary Plot Summary Iago is passed over for a promotion by his commander, Othello, a Moor and a general in the service of Venice, and vows revenge. Othello has just married Desdemona, the daughter of Brabantio, a Venetian Senator, and Iago enlists the aid of Roderigo, a rejected suitor, to tell Desdemona's father about the marriage. Brabantio goes to seize his daughter, but is interrupted by news of a Turkish attack on Cyprus. The Duke and the Senate convene, and after hearing Desd...
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Strict Code Of Honour Code Of Honour Othello
747 wordsShakespeare's tragic hero, Othello, is a strong, powerful, and dignified Moor. He has come to Venice, hired by the State to help the country win their war against the Turks. He spent nine months in Venice, where his leadership and kindness have made him a popular general. Yet, how can such a strong character become so blinded from the truth and can only hear the destructive voice of honest Iago? This can be explained by an in-depth analysis of Othello's many character flaws. These include his tr...
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Beginning Of The Play Play Othello
657 wordsOthello is a Moorish nobleman and soldier of fortune, inclined into the vale of years. Now in the service of the Venetian State as a general against the Turks. Othello is said to be? great of heart, ? ? honorable and valiant, ? ? of a free open nature, that thinks men honest that but seem to be so, ? and? thus easy victim to the? green eyed monster? ? JEALOUSY. ? At the beginning of the play, Othello appears as a noble, generous, composed man. He is also glamorously happy, both as a general and ...
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Quot V Takes Responsibility
1,237 wordsWilliam Shakespeare presents an excellent leader but a poor reasoner in Othello. The eponymous hero has strength, charisma, and eloquence. Yet these ideals of leadership do not bode well in real world situations. The battlefield and Senate are, at least in Othello, depicted as places of honor, where men speak truly. In addition, the matters of war and state are relatively simple; no one lies to Othello, all seem to respect him. He never even has to fight in the play, with the enemy disappearing ...
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Caboto Returned Set Sail North
777 wordsGiovanni Caboto, or John Cabot as he is known in English, was born most likely around 1451 in Genoa, Italy. In 1461 he relocated to Venice and eventually became a Venetian citizen on March 28, 1476 after fulfilling the fifteen year residency requirement. As an employee of a mercantile firm, Caboto frequently traveled to the shores of the Mediterranean and Mecca which was a great trading post at the time. As an experienced seamen, Caboto envisioned a great voyage of discovery for himself. In 1484...
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Quot Iii Nature Quot
1,467 wordsOthello, written by William Shakespeare is the story of Othello, the protagonist and tragic hero of the play. A Moor commanding the armies of Venice, he is a celebrated general and heroic figure whose " free and open nature" will enable Iago to twist his love for his wife Desdemona into a powerful jealousy. Iago is Othello? s ensign, and Shakespeare's greatest villain. His public face of bravery and honesty conceals a Satanic delight in manipulation and destruction. Passed over for a p...
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Iii Iii V Ii
1,445 wordsOthello, written by William Shakespeare is the story of Othello, the protagonist and tragic hero of the play. A Moor commanding the armies of Venice, he is a celebrated general and heroic figure whose free and open nature will enable Iago to twist his love for his wife Desdemona into a powerful jealousy. Iago is Othello? s ensign, and Shakespeare's greatest villain. His public face of bravery and honesty conceals a Satanic delight in manipulation and destruction. Passed over for a promotion by h...
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Iii Ll Iii Iii
1,153 wordsWhy Does Desdemona Marry Othello? In the last scene of Othello, Desdemona recovers long enough from the smothering that her jealous husband has inflicted upon her to pronounce her complete innocence, and with her last breath tells Emilia, a guiltless death I die (V, ii. , l. 120). Plainly, Iago has deceived Othello into believing that his beautiful young wife has committed adultery with his once-trusted second in command, Cassio. That being so, Desdemona is clearly innocent of the charges embodi...
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Iago Desdemona
624 wordsThe play Othello exemplifies the themes of jealousy and chicanery. The play begins when Othello, a general in the Venetian army has angered Iago (a member of the army) by appointing Cassio (another army officer) to the lieutenant position. Iago feels that he is more deserving of the promotion than Cassio and decides that he will stop at nothing to get back at both Othello and Cassio. Iago decides that he will get revenge on Othello by using his wife, Desdemona. " O? beware my lord, of jealo...
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Pediment Sculptures Floor Plan Parthenon
626 wordsGreek The Parthenon The Parthenon Greek culture blossomed after the Persian Wars. General Pericles around the 450? s BC led the reconstruction of Athens; which became the most beautiful city in all of Greece. Price? s greatest structure built under his command was the Parthenon. The Parthenon was a temple built for the patron goddess Athena (goddess of wisdom and art). Construction started 447 BC and continued until 432 BC. The structure is located in Athens Greece, on the acropolis. The archite...
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1,310 words(1564 - 1642) Galileo Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) Galileo Galilei was born near Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564 (Drake). Galileo was the first child of Vincezio Galileo, a merchant and a musician (Jaki 289). In 1574, Galileo? s family moved from Pisa to Florence, where Galileo started his formal education (Jaki 289). Seven years latter, in 1581, Galileo entered the University of Pisa as a medical student (Drake). In 1583, home on vacation from medical school, Galileo began to...
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2,069 wordsA tragedy without meaning? Othello? is not, as the very genre of tragedy seeks to imitate action and life, both of which have an inherit meaning. In some ways, Shakespeare? s work can be considered didactic as in the case in classical tragedy, the hero? s falls arises as fault of a hamartia on his part, a fault which plagues humanity. In fact, throughout the work, Othello is revealed to have many more faults and weaknesses than a man of his stature should posses, providing a reason for his downf...
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Control Over Events Desdemona Has Been Unfaithful Othello
1,086 wordsIago is passed over for a promotion by his commander, Othello, a Moor and a general in the service of Venice, and he vows revenge. Othello has just married Desdemona, the daughter of Brabantio, a Venetian Senator, and Iago enlists the aid of Roderigo, a rejected suitor, to tell Desdemona's father about the marriage. Brabantio goes to seize his daughter but is interrupted by news of a Turkish attack on Cyprus. The Duke and the Senate convene, and after hearing Desdemona and Othello testify to the...
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