Brabantio

During the sixteenth century, Shakespeare Wrote the play Othello, a love story that ended in tragedy and death because of the lies that the character Iago told. During that time period, it was customary for women to be housewives and were essentially at the bottom of the hierarchy since it was a male dominated society. The female’s roles played in these scenes were fundamentally just possessions who belonged to their husbands but yet they still loved their husbands unconditionally. One…

It is the popular opinion of many that Iago is Shakespeare’s evilest creation, with S.T Coleridge going as far as to describe him as a ‘motiveless malignity’, while Don John is perceived as Shakespeare’s most humane, if not passive villain. Whereas Iago is characterised as a villain of concealment, Don John is one of disclosure, and this stark contrast may suggest contrasting ideologies between these villains. The idea of motive that Coleridge presents is not in the sense that we know, as he…

In the very end, Othello tragically dies alongside his wife. He tragically fell from being the prestigious Moor to a murderous lunatic who believed in falsifications of his own wife. His focus in negativities, such as heavily viewing the possibility of his wife being unfaithful towards him instead of earnestly focusing on the positive possibility that Desdemona, his wife, is actually remaining faithful towards him, and the abundant hedonism in the play, such as his drastic desire for vengeance…

General 's way of thinking, but allows the General to shape his own opinions, all of which point to the infidelity of his wife. Furthermore, Venetian society of the time disapproved of the union of a black man and a white woman as demonstrated by Brabantio in Scene 3 of Act 1. Iago plays around with this as he tells Othello what wives often do to their husbands, "Is not to leave 't undone, but keep 't unknown" (3.3.204), whilst reminding him "She did deceive her father, marrying you" (3.3.206).…

comments: “I think [Othello’s] tale would win my daughter too” (2, 3, 173). Therefore, guided by his reason, the Moor possesses an eloquent tongue. When using his rational mind, he speaks of noble things. For instance, Othello avoids violence when Brabantio attempts to arrest him forcefully for eloping with his…

Humans are, above anything else, sentimental creatures; babies know how to cry, smile, and laugh before they learn to speak and write. Prehistoric societies experienced these emotions before humans developed written language, and necessitated that words be made to encompass and express the various aspects of the emotional spectrum. Hate is one of the more intense emotions that humans experience, and formally, it is defined as “[a]n emotion of extreme dislike or aversion” or “(t)he object of…

Iago is described as “a puppeteer of the psyche, he pulls the strings of those who should know better with a battery of verbal weapons” (edsitement.neh.gov). Said to be the most cunning and persuasive villain of any Shakespeare composition, Iago, the antagonist of Othello, verbally manipulates the characters of the show to benefit himself in an almost seamless manner with his convincing rhetoric. Like a puppeteer and his marionettes, Iago deploys rhetorical devices and strategies that include…

embody the stereotypes of a Moor in Shakespearian time. The people saw blacks as beast-like, inhumane, and jealous. After Othello is introduced readers get the first impression of who he is. He takes on the very delicate situation with the Duke and Brabantio with a high-held and level head. This displays that even when faced with a difficult situation involving very important, highly-ranked men, he was able to keep his calm disposition. However, later on in the play readers see that he is no…

In the end of Shakespeare’s play, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Othello, the protagonist, tragically dies beside his wife, Desdemona. He tragically lost his position of being the prestigious Moor by unknowingly transforming into a murderous lunatic since he believed in falsifications concerning his own wife. His focus on the negative possibility of Desdemona being unfaithful towards him instead of earnestly focusing on the positive possibility that Desdemona is remaining faithful towards him, and…

In Othello, we have an overflow of male, dominant characters and a deprivation of female ones; so let’s notice and focus on the three women of the play: Desdemona (upper class), Emilia (middle class), and Bianca (lower class). Because she is the daughter of a man with high power, a senator, Desdemona enjoys speaking freely and openly like she does in Act I. In Act I, Desdemona puts up a front with her dad. She acts like the complete opposite of how a woman was expected to in the Venetian times.…