Othello

Shakespeare is well renowned for portraying repeating topics in his writings, particularly the themes of betrayal, hatred, and love.  These aspects are showcased in most if not all of these plays. However, jealousy is a pronounced topic, throughout Shakespeare’s plays. It plays a part in almost all the characters’ lives…

Shakespeare’s Othello has been attracted the attention of many reads as well as audience overtime. It is the magnificent ability of Shakespeare that keeps the popularity of the play even after its first performance in the Jacobean period. Long through these years, many studies have been conducted on Othello, and…

Even though the problem of women’s treatment is not the central one in Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, still it is revealed in some very crucial episodes and helps an author to describe the essences of his characters more completely. For the men characters such as Iago and Othello women are more like…

Act 1 1. To Shakespeare, the Venetian world was a stable democracy, and this is depicted with the presence of a senate. The author depicts Iago and Desdemona, as Venetian citizens by blood, while Othello is a citizen, not by blood but by virtue of loyalty and bravery. Basing on…

 Introduction In the play “Othello, The Moor of Venice, by Shakespeare, there is a character known as Othello (Shakespeare 16). Othello, a distinguished warrior in Venice, was always geared up to defend his people from any external threat. Othello was married to Desdemona, the daughter of senator Brabantio, after he…

Othello is one of the four famous tragedies by William Shakespeare written in 1603. The play has been considered Shakespeare’s most tightly constructed tragedy. In this play Shakespeare has made proficient use of different literary devices that well complemented the tragic theme of the play and supported the construction of…

 Introduction Literature evolves from life. Whether it is Elizabethan age or very recent canon of post-modernism, literature has continued to bear the imprints of life and society within the compass of its creativity. The plays “Othello” by William Shakespeare and “The Rover” by Aphra Behn bear the essence of their…

Othello, not Iago? It has often been d that William Shakespeare’s play Othello actually features another character in a more dominant role. While the play ostensibly tells the fate of what happened to an otherwise noble, battle-tested Moor during his final service to Venice in Cyprus as a result of…

William Shakespeare’s play Othello presents won of his strongest female characters in the form of Desdemona, a woman who demonstrates an unusual strength and resolve for her period. The play opens with Othello, a Moor who has achieved the rank of a commanding general in Venice, attempting to defend himself…