Othello: Iago's Journal III

Jealousy --- the Main tool in the tragedy of Othello William Shakespeare is famous all over the world for his use of recurrent themes, especially those of love, death and deception. A minute study of the play shows that all these themes are the part and parcel of his tragedy ‘Othello’. Most prominent, however, is jealousy. The story of the drama ‘Othello’ revolves around the doom of Othello and the other major characters as a result of jealousy. In this play, jealousy is mainly portrayed through

Racism in Othello William Shakespeare wrote Othello during the wars between Venice and Turkey dating back to the sixteenth century. On November 1, 1604, Othello was performed for the first time by King’s men at the court of King James I. Race is one aspect that affects people’s lives. “Racism rejects mankind and a means of legalizing diversity” (Mutlu 135). With traces of racism, Shakespeare portrays the story of a general and his wife. From the beginning of Othello, there is a coordination of

article “Envy and Jealousy”, it is a negative attitude that stems from a “subject’s inferiority to another agent” and differences in “characteristics, possessions, or positions” (Ben-Ze’ev 491). It is a theme prominently showcased in the tragic play Othello through the narcissistic and villainous ploy of the antagonist Iago. The exploration of his role as the “villain” conveys how envy fostered by the desire for power, an inferiority complex, and his psychopathic mentality can be a destructive force

provokes laughter. In Shakespeare’s play, Othello, one of the earliest scenes where we see Iago’s power of being a trickster

In Othello, the Moor of Venice, the titular character, Othello, is the protagonist and subject to scrutiny as to whether or not he is a tragic hero in the conventional Aristotelian definition of the term. Aristotle believed a tragedy served to exercise "the mature citizen's moral sensibilities" (Ferrari, 1999, p. 181). There are several different components of Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero, which essentially serve as a set of criteria to determine whether or not Othello truly is a tragic