Brabantio

Once Roderigo is fired up with hatred for Othello, he goes to Brabantio to tell him what horrible thing his daughter has done with the Moor. Although Roderigo plays a small role in Othello, he plays a key role in Iago’s own personal agenda. Roderigo is so compelled by Iago, he doesn’t doubt his decisions of arousing Brabantio, as long as he gets what he wants. We not only see Roderigo’s trust in Iago, Brabantio too. At first, Brabantio doesn’t believe Roderigo when he is hearing about his…

creating chaos. In order to do this, he uses people’s virtues and faults against them. Iago uses the fault of Brabantio to his advantage, provoking him to take action against Othello. Iago says to Brabantio: “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” (1.1.91-92). Iago describes in vivid detail to Brabantio, Desdemona’s father, of illicit acts between Othello and Desdemona. He knows that Brabantio is a racist and uses this to his benefit. He uses imagery of animals, Othello being the black ram,…

After losing his beloved daughter to a "savage" and "uncivilized" foreigner, Brabantio cries out in anguish - being deceived and manipulated by his own flesh and blood. Inadvertently via Brabantio, and perhaps purposely via Shakespeare, the Venetian noble's outrage singlehandedly establishes the entire rest of the play - portraying each character's fatal flaw - extending even beyond the written word and into our own lives as well. Affirming Brabantio's warning is a series of tragic missteps,…

The racism drove him crazy and Iago didn’t make it better. When Iago tells Othello that Desdemona was cheating on him, he thought that his blackness and Moorish characteristics changed her and made her do it because Iago and other characters like Brabantio said it would. When Othello killed Desdemona, his literal blackness became metaphorical (Little 322). As soon as Emilia found out that Othello murdered Desdemona, she had to bring race into the conversation; she made a racist comment by…

When reading Othello we see there is a bond between a black man (Othello), a white woman (Desdemona) and the public. To fully understand racial issues in Othello we need to look at Elizabethan attitude towards black people. During the Elizabethan era was a great deal of hatred amongst Christians and Muslims happening through Europe. Muslims came from an area that had attacked and threatened all of Europe, Muslims extended their control across southern Mediterranean Sea and Spain. There was…

using animal imagery towards them. This shows just how good Iago is at manipulating others. Iago refers to Othello as a “Black Ram” when he says, “an old black Ram is tupping your Ewe” ( ) to Brabantio. Shakespeare uses a black ram to show…

which is evident when Iago wakens Brabantio with the news of his daughter’s recent elopement with the Moor. Iago tries to turn Brabantio against Othello saying “Even now, now, very now, and old black ram is tupping your white ewe” (1.3.90-91). Iago uses animal imagery and compares Othello to an old black ram which introduces racial association of black versus white. Iago discriminates Othello as a human being and compares him to an aggressive animal, leading Brabantio to become more enraged and…

The Strumpet Takes our Man Cassio was seen once again outside of Bianca’s house. The two lovers meet again, unwed and unaccompanied. For some time rumors had been flowing about this aberrant union. A respectable lieutenant and an unvirtuous lady. Could it be possible that Bianca is able to charm the honorable Cassio? Gentle Cassio was even seen giving her a handkerchief. The bawdy lady has been seen frequently with different man without being engage to them, and Cassio is of course no exception.…

As the prominent philosopher Thich Nhat Hanh puts it, “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear…” (Steen “Adversity Quotes”). In other words hope aids in overcoming adversity because it makes the situation bearable. Othello in Othello by William Shakespeare, Hester in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Huck in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain exemplify adversity. Adversity means overcoming misfortunes through hope and learning…

and submissive, which is apparent in the play through the behaviour of the men. Iago metaphorically warns Brabantio of ‘Thieves! Thieves!’ when he tells Brabantio of Desdemona and Othello’s marriage. The reference to Othello as a ‘thief’ suggests that Desdemona has been ‘stolen’ by Othello, prompting the inference that women were regarded as male property in a society dominated by men. Brabantio also hyperbolically describes Desdemona as ‘a maiden never bold, of spirit so still and quiet’, which…