Trifles

The Destructiveness of Jealousy and Greediness What made Othello, written by William Shakespeare in the 17th century, popular is that the play dealt with sensible topics as racism and race. The protagonist of the play is a dark skinned foreigner, surrounded by white characters. Othello’s race makes him sensible for criticism of the people around him, because he knows that he will always be the weaker ‘species’. But what is shown in this play is that it is not his race that will be his downfall.…

true self is the battle in life. People begin to accept what they have perceived to be their norm, and never seek to further themselves, they believe they are trapped. This leads to much of the frustration, anger, and indiscretions. The characters trifle with sexuality, and the acceptance, and the personal tole it take on them, and the family. The author portrays this through the use of several literary devices; character, plot, illusions. symbolism, visual images, and diction.…

The Monstrous Grendel “An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.” Throughout John Gardner’s Grendel, William Makepeace Thackeray’s idea of “never letting the light shine through” aptly portrays Grendel’s evil and monstrous figure even though Grendel himself is not a person. Living in a world of loneliness, Grendel searches for the meaning of his own life, attempting to discover the “good” aspects that life brings instead of focusing on the evil individual he…

three most significant messages within Plato’s Apology) “ … the fact is that neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, but he thinks he does know when he doesn’t, and I don’t know and don’t think I do: so I am wiser than he is by only this trifle … “ (507). Plato is writing this famous dialogue called Apology, from within his teacher’s, Socrates, trial. Socrates is accused of corrupting the youth and being an atheist and in this dialogue he explains in a very sarcastic way why he is…

he uses his charm and his acting skills. For example everyone in his family idolized him even Winifred was his willing slave for a period of time. It also took the father a long time to realize what Zachary was up to. Zachary would always lie over trifles, steal out of wallets that were left lying around and drank from the liquor cabinet. Even one night after a poker game he was able to smash up their family car, but the thing that bothered his father more than smashing the car was when he…

they would bring him flowers and little pebbles of different colors for him to play with. The men had never seen the beauty in these objects before, but now they were “suddenly awakened to that fact that there were beauty and significance in these trifles, which they had so long trodden carelessly beneath their feet” (Harte, 1868, para. 17). The one time that they were not paying attention, Tommy crawled off the blanket and fell head first into a ditch. Those who saw him laying in the ditch feet…

Scott Brown, a columnist and theater critic, in his essay “Facebook Friendonomics,” argues that the interconnectedness of people through social media has disrupted the natural process of friendship. He supports the claim by first referencing personal experience with Facebook to demonstrate his understanding of friendship dynamics within social media, incorporating humor with unexpected comparisons and analogies, and finally directly asserting his claim by clearly listing his three grievances…

Macbeth: The follower blinded in the pursuit of power Macbeth was a blind follower, his conquest of power was not his own, he only had an illusion of choice as his actions were controlled by the manipulators surrounding him – those who use others solely to fulfil their ambition. Macbeth was not a man to question the motivations behind his actions – his ambition was greater than his conscience. He did not think for himself. He was blind as he did not realize he was being manipulated until his…

Almost everyone assumes that marriage is a sign of love and commitment, but marriage doesn’t always mean that the couple loves each other. In the play Othello, the relationship between Emilia and Iago is hardly considered love. Emilia is a strong and independent woman, but she still wants to satisfy her husband. Iago, on the other hand, is just using Emilia to get what he wants. Emilia and Iago might be married, but they do not truly love each other. True love means that a person would never…

Iago’s and Emilia’s destroyed relationship in Othello In the play, Othello jealousy demonstrated how an emotion can take over a person controlling and leading them to destruction and chaos in their lives and people around them including close friends and family. One relationship in particular which was doomed from the start was Iago’s and Emilia’s relationship this relationship had many problems and ended very badly in the end. The influence of jealousy through Iago has…