Othello Characters

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…

 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…

Although they are often glossed over and ignored, William Shakespeare provided several examples throughout his plays of women who demonstrated an unusual strength and resolve. Desdemona, in his tragedy Othello, is one of these women. In this play, we learn the story of a Moor, Othello, who has achieved the…

Othello initially establishes an impression of courage and dignity as a Moorish general capable of ranking his officials yet this is later observed to develop into a credulous character in the hands of Iago then a figure of hatred and vulnerability at deciding the ill fate of his wife and…