Emilia

He has officially lost all confidence in Desdemona and ends up killing her out of rage. “By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in ‘s hand! O perjured woman, thou dost stone my heart” (Act 5. Scene 2. Lines 77- 77) Iago had asked his wife Emilia to steal the handkerchief Othello gave DEsdemona and plant it on Cassion. This led Othello to truly believe that the affair between the two was real and this sent him over the edge. The handkerchief was a token of his love and devotion to Desdemona…

There are many real world examples of a tragic flaw, not only in everyday life but in literature as well. OJ Simpson, a success and celebrated athlete caused by his own downfall by allowing his flaws to convince him to murder his wife. This terrible act caused Simpson to ruin his career and become an outcast in society. In the tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare, Othello is too trusting. This flaw allows Othello to be easy manipulated and kill his wife and himself. This flaw is important to…

I regret to inform you that there has been a tragic accident on the island of Cyprus resulting in four deaths and an extreme causality. Unbeknownst to me, the cause of this dispute had been going on for a while with the prime suspect being Iago, Othello’s Ancient. Before I report the results of the tragedy, I’ll first explain the reason behind Iago’s motives. Iago believed that “Abroad it is thought that [Othello] ‘twixt [his] sheets” (1.3.368) instigating his hate for Othello, which he…

Meredith Skura writes that this play is a play about prejudice. Her comment is absolutely accurate because the driving force behind the devastation is prejudice against both race and gender. One of the outcomes is Othello’s mistrust of his wife. Emilia shouts, “Thou art rash as fire to say that she was false. O, she was heavenly true! (Shakespeare V.ii.119). He did not believe and trust his wife, which eventually led him to kill her. Another outcome was the death of Othello. He internalized the…

This strategy helps the viewer understand and almost sympathize with Iago at this point. That is, until the stolen handkerchief scene. This is also one of the major changes to the story. Parker changes this scene into cinematic beauty. In the film, Emilia finds the dropped handkerchief and brings it to her husband, Iago which pleases him to the point of sexual excitement. Once again, Iago faces the camera and delivers another piece of exposition; he sniffs the handkerchief and tosses it into the…

In addition, the narrative of the film focuses on Will(Claflin) that may be seen as conventionally ‘grotesque’ as he is not abled body and relies on an electric wheelchair to move his body, as Bakhtin (2009) writes in his book that those who are seen as different or as other were of the grotesque body. Grotesque is linked to outsiders, especially in the medieval times, Bakhtin (2009) refers mostly about carnivals which was about tradition grotesque which involved becoming, changing, moving and…

his bias towards Iago is so strong, he doesn’t see that the fight was caused by Iago’s manipulation. Towards the end of the play, Iago’s wife Emilia reveals Iago’s plans. Before he kills her she says to Othello “O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak’st of I found by fortune, and give my husband [...] he begged of me to steal’t” (255). Although Emilia might not like her husband, she trusted him enough to believe that his intentions were good. Because she gave him the handkerchief, and…

Jealousy and manipulation can be the death of any relationship. Throughout the play Othello, we see how Iago’s jealousy controls all of the thoughts and actions of the main characters. Othello was written by William Shakespeare around 1603. The play is set in Venice, Italy, in the Sixteenth century, during the time of war between Venice and Turkey. Iago, Othello’s captain, is mad with jealousy and contempt over not being made lieutenant. Iago derives a plan of revenge to ruin Othello, which…

Othello 1. Cite one episode of racism in the play. Explain how Shakespeare may use the episode to portray a character negatively. There are several instances where the character, Othello, is referred to derogatorily. One does not have to look very far into the play to find such demeaning words. In act one scene one of the play there are several attempts to downplay Othello’s looks and origin. In line sixty-three, Shakespeare claims that Othello has thick lips. Lines eighty-five and one hundred…

Desdemona. Throughout the play, he finds little things to use as “evidence” to prove his life to Othello. This eventually leads to a plan of Iago killing Cassio and Othello killing Desdemona. In the end, Othello kills Desdemona, only to find out from Emilia, Iago’s wife, that Iago had lied. Othello then kills himself, unable to cope with the pain of what he had hastily done. This play is a tragedy about how jealousy and insecurity can lead to a disastrous downfall.…