Othello Act 2 Essay

The first scene I’m going to be using as an example is in Act three scene 3 lines 92-280. In this scene Iago and Othello are

Shakespeare is prominent in his use of recurring themes throughout his works, particularly those of love, death, and betrayal. All these themes are present in Othello. Most dominant, however, are manipulation and jealousy. Jealousy runs the characters’ lives in Othello from the beginning of the play, when Roderigo is jealous of Othello because he wishes to be with Desdemona, and to the end of the play, when Othello is furious with jealousy because he believes Cassio and Desdemona have been engaging in an affair, but manipulation the prominent action that fuels the jealousy within Othello. Some characters’ jealousy is fashioned by other characters. Iago is involved in much of this, creating lies and implementing confusing situations.

Adding up to almost 28000 words Othello is a full length play made out of a short story. The ending has completely been changed from “Un Capitano Moro” to Othello. Cintho’s story has Ensign and the Moor plotting to kill Desdemona and the captain. The Captain (Cassio) gets a much more grievous wound, having his leg completely cut off, which might have been hard to do on stage at the time. In “Un Capitano Moro” The Moor and the Ensign plot to kill Desdemona finally settling on murder made to look like an accident. The Moor will lie in bed with the Ensign dealing the death blow to Desdemona with a sock full of sand. The pair then hide the murder with the ceiling being pulled down onto Desdemona’s dead body. The Ensign still wants the downfall of the Moor. so the Ensign convinces the Captain he knows who cut off his leg, and will tell him once they get to Venice. The Ensign blames everything on the Moor, and the Signoria orders the Moor brought back to torture the truth out of him. Once returned to Venice the Moor cannot be broken. After man days of not breaking Moor is banished and finally killed by Desdemona’s family. Ensign returns to his own country (not Venice in Othello Iago is from Venice) where he is accused of plotting the death of another, he is tortured until his body is “Ruptured” finally he is sent

determine as to which one will win, so that is why one cannot exist without the other. However, there are some whose emotions are unbalanced, which causes them to near towards one side more than the other one ­­ and many times the side a lot of people prefer to lean on is evil. Shakespeare’s play O​thello​is set in 16th­century Venice and Cyprus. Othello, a noble black general from the Venetian army has secretly married Desdemona, daughter of Venice senator Brabantio. Othello chooses inexperienced Cassio to be his lieutenant, while he decides to give the ensign position to Iago, a malicious but very experienced man who, with his stealth and knavery, will ultimately ruin almost everyone’s life since for a long time, he was desiring the position of lieutenant just like Cassio. At the end of the play, Othello, Desdemona, Iago’s wife Emilia, and his sidekick Roderigo die due to his revenge against Cassio, for obtaining the position he wanted and Othello, for being the man who he hates the most. The play ends with Iago being told that he will be punished and tortured for his actions. However, despite the fact that Iago is punished at the end of the play for doing all of the malicious things he did, he still manages to wear down Othello’s relationship with Desdemona, get Cassio demoted from his lieutenancy, and cause Othello to show his cowardness by

In acts 1 and 2 of the play “Macbeth” by Shakespeare, the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are presented to the audience through soliloquies and dialogue between the two. Macbeth is presented as brave, ambitious and guilty in Acts 1 and 2 of the play through the way others describe him, what he says and how he internally feels, and Lady Macbeth is presented as being determined and driven.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story. The story concerns the love between two young people, Romeo and Juliet. This is set against a feud between their two families: the Montagues and the Capulets. This feud develops the themes of conflict, deception and dignity in the play. The play includes a lot of themes, love, family, hate, deception and revenge.

7. What two ways does Macbeth imagine that he could become king (“this imperial theme”)?

Othello is horribly jealous of what he thinks is going on between his wife and Cassio. This poisonous feeling turns Othello into a mad man and he strikes his wife. Jealousy causes

In Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, Iago is uncharacteristically honest when he says "I am not what I am". However, he is not the only character whose appearance differs from the reality. Nonetheless, he is possibly the only person who intends this duplicity. Unfortunately everyone is under the impression that Iago is "honest and just". Once alone, Iago reveals "when devils will the blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first with heavenly shows as I do now". Iago is two-faced in his relationships, even in the language he uses. After referring to Othello as a "black ram", he then tells him "my lord, you know I love you". Iago has no shame in appealing to heaven and godly images in

Othello, takes place in Venice during an attack of the island of Cyprus . The

There is more to Shakespeare’s Othello than just the characters in the play. There is a message of power, and who has it, as well as the ones that want it. Two of the central characters in the play are both married. Their "love" for each other is questionable. The message that Shakespeare is sending is not really about "love", but about the power that one holds in the marriage.

There is one person in the play able to overcome this divorce of intimacy between the sexes: Cassio. However, his two relationships in the play--his entreatment of Desdemona for help to regain Othello's favor and his lusty, physical intimacy with Bianca--contrast two wildly different views of women. On the one hand is his

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world; and that much ‘new knowledge’ lay follow or was treated in a merely superficial manner because of this.” (Hunter 50) Even though Othello fulfills his duty as a general and he is appreciated by the authorities in Venice and earns a respected position, he is not embraced by the society enough to marry a Venetian girl.

What do you consider to be the most successful stage effect and language techniques used to create dramatic tension in Act 2, Scene 2?