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    Othello is changing and thinks that Desdemona is cheating on him. He is black and older so he understands why Desdemona would be cheating on him. Desdemona is trying to eat Othello to take Cassio back and is being annoying about it. She keeps asking Othello when are you doing to have dinner with him to talk to him. When are you going to just let him back in. Cassio is worried that Othello is not going to let him have his spot back. Cassio told Desdemona that even if he does not give him his spot

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    Othello: Shakespeare vs. Parker To create an adaptation of a literary work is not an easy task‚ especially if it is a classic work by man named Shakespeare. Today movies are expected to be packed with drama‚ action‚ and sex. True‚ Othello contains all of these‚ but it certainly isn’t a blockbuster by today’s standards. When Shakespeare wrote Othello‚ viewing the play was an event in itself‚ not an hour and a half thrill ride that today’s viewer have come to expect. This was Parker’s dilemma

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    ------------------------------------------------- Othello Possible Coursework Questions 1. Discuss Shakespeare’s presentation of Othello as a tragic hero. 2. Some commentators have claimed that the character of Othello is not admirable enough to be a tragic hero. Examine two or three key episodes in the play and discuss whether you agree with this viewpoint. 3. Desdemona is sometimes played as a passive sacrificial victim at other times she is portrayed as a more active and self-willed

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    you trusted someone so untrustworthy? Well in the play Othello by Shakespeare‚ trust and fake friendships is involved dramatically and things turn bad and don’t end up to pleasant. Othello really likes a local girl where he lives so he asks her father for permission. The father had no trust in his daughter because he said if a woman betrays her own father than she will betray anyone. Othello had no concern with her leaving her dad because Othello was feeling greedy and wanted her all to himself and

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    Lily Tiers Gibson English II H 21 January 2013 The Belittling of Women The movie Shakespeare In Love accurately portrays how some women lived and were treated in the Elizabethan Era. John Madden‚ the producer‚ shows the women as inferior to men due to their emotions and weaknesses. These women are not allowed jobs other than bearing children or being housewives. John Madden also shows women as a bond to tie two families together as one. They are forced into premeditated marriages with men

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    What if someone told your partner was cheating on you? Would you believe them? In the story Othello Written by William Shakespeare‚ there was many situations showing unloyalty‚ jealousy‚ and imagination against reality. Imagination against Reality is the most effective situation. This situation is important because if it was not this situation it would not really be a theme of the story. I will be telling you how people let other people affect their love life. When you are in a relationship

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    The Golden Age or Elizabethan Era. The Elizabethan Era (1558-1603) was a time of cruel punishments‚ riveting people‚ such as Arabella Stuart‚ and fashion statements. Crimes in the Elizabethan Era were not taken lightly‚ and the punishment was usually meant to teach the public a lesson. Common crimes such as theft‚ adultery‚ forgers‚ and fraud could result in a death sentence. Even stealing bird eggs out of a bird nest could result in death (Elizabethan Crime). The Elizabethan government soon made

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    The Elizabethan Era The Elizabethan Era is named after one of the greatest Queens of England - Queen Elizabeth. It was known as the Renaissance age. The Elizabethan era was an important and one of the most fascinating periods. In the history of England many developments‚ inventions and new ideas were introduced during the Elizabethan era. The Elizabethan Era is not only famous for the Virgin Queen but also for the era itself - Great Explorers‚ such as Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh

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    order to make some extra money. It has some very "funny potential‚" assuming I can hit just the right notes. For my contrasting monologue‚ I was thinking of doing one of Iago’s from Othello. Jealousy and competition are certainly not gender specific‚ and I enjoy changing it up a bit when it comes to Shakespeare. If the unexpected gender bending doesn’t work to impress the auditors‚ I hope it at least gets their attention.

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    In William Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ OthelloShakespeare uses love as an overall theme for his play. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection‚ and normally‚ authors use it to show the relationship between two people. Shakespeare takes what love means to an entirely new level‚ and uses it in an unusual way within this play‚ for love is not only used in the general sense of love for other people‚ but in the love of power over others and how to use the love that other people hold for one person to

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