Michael Cassio

is morally Iago’s fault for Desdemona’s death because he purposely did things to interfere with their love and trust. Iago was attempting to make Othello believe that his wife Desdemona was unloyal and that she had an affair with his closest friend Cassio. Another quote that proved that Iago didn't like othello is “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock. The meat it feeds on;” (3.3.165-167) Iago is very well at manipulating Othello. Within this quote he…

One of the villains in King Lear is Edmund due to his evil intentions, the damage he inflicted on other characters of the play, and his fate ultimately. Throughout the duration of the play, Shakespeare made it evident that Edmund is the most complex and vilest character. A Machiavellian character who is a master of manipulating emotions and beliefs. Edmund’s mind, body and soul are consumed by anger. He objects how the society portrays bastards “Why “bastard” ? Wherefore “base”, When my…

More like 500 Days of Nothing. 500 Days of Summer is a critically acclaimed romantic movie. Although sometimes I wonder, are the critics delusional? Simply trying to find depth and complexity in a trivial plot accompanied with equally irritating characters.Surely a film with a $7 500 000 budget and a director like Marc Webb, director of The Amazing Spider Man, would prove to be a cinematic masterpiece shaping the world of media. However this movie was simply putting on the arty…

I'm in Love With a Tree? Ovid's Metamorphoses, contain light-hearted popular stories that have been providing people enjoyment since its circulation! Metamorphoses is the conglomeration of over two hundred tales written in the form of a lengthy poem. In these tales legendary gods and people, during the Romanian times, are seen magically shape-shifting/transforming into nature-like objects. The million dollar question here is whether it is possible to fall in love with an object. When it comes…

William Wilson tells the tale of the titular character starting from infancy and peaking when has matured into a man. Like Cellini, William Wilson has a very strong character that develops from his early childhood, “I grew self-willed, addicted to the wildest caprices and a prey to the most ungovernable passions. Weak-minded, and beset with constitutional infirmities” (Poe 80). He even states that he became autonomous, “Thenceforward my voice was a household law; and at an age when few children…

The Redeeming Nature of Suffering An innocent prostitute, a depraved obsessive, and a conflicted murderer, and each one of them share something in common. All these are characters that are found in “Crime And Punishment”, a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Even more importantly, each one of the characters experiences suffering, from Sonya who sells herself in an effort to support her family, to Svidrigailov who stoops to the basest levels of the nature of man, and to Raskolnikov who murders two…

Confessions is an autobiographical work by Augustine that is written in thirteen books, similar to chapters. The books trace Augustine's life, starting from birth (354 A.D.) to adulthood and beyond. While Augustine is composing his work, he comes to a multiple of realizations through his praise of God. In book two, Augustine writes about the sinfulness of his adolescence. He writes of his experience of robbing pear-trees with his friends. Augustine and his friends went out at night to steal…

While at first General Zaroff seems to be an elegant, yet vain, aristocrat, he is soon revealed to be a savage murderer. His arrogance is a prevalent aspect of his disposition in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” and is Zaroff’s inevitable downfall. Throughout the story, Zaroff’s excessive pride is depicted in a number of different ways: his belief in being the perfect hunter, his acting as God by killing human beings, and his arrogance in letting Rainsford free after catching him.…

“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all montagues, and thee.” tybalt in line 21. Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story of two houses feuding and the lovers getting caught up in it. William shakespeare wrote this story, originally as a play, William is considered one of the all time greats in literature. Tybalt developed a lot over the play, and his biggest trait that grew was his violent intentions. Tybalt is characterized by his words, actions, and through…

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,…