Masters of Deception

In William Shakespeare’s riveting play Othello, the once entrapped Emilia achieves independence by gaining the strength and courage to rise above the unhappiness of her marriage and her fears in order to reveal the truth of her husband’s wicked deceptions. Before Emilia’s defining moment of courage, she obediently suffers through her oppressive marriage against her will because of her tangible fear of her domineering husband, Iago. With the help of raging emotions and the deep desire for freedom

confining, realizing that “they single out some people, and glide over the heads of others”. Batuman then attends a play, which is a “refashioning” of an 1859 play. This play, An Octoroon, is an “adaption” of The Octoroon, a theater piece about a master falling in love with an illegitimate “octoroon” (someone who’s not white). The original play reveals the struggles that slaves went through, even though it sounded extremely racist, calling people ‘niggers’. An Octoroon completely reenacts this, but

The Devil in the Details Few literary giants that have been able to persist in writing with such legendary prestige as “the devil”, or Satan. The literary capabilities of an enigmatic figure of evil, trickery, and deception have been exploited countless times from ancient writings to modernity. Because of his popularity, the devil has donned a wide variety of guises in literature; however, some consistent traits of this fallen hero have remained consistent. In Daniel Orozco’s critically acclaimed

Roshan Mirajkar PHIL 253 Midterm Essay October 10th, 2015 Asimov’s short story “Reason” in I, Robot contains many Cartesian themes. Please interpret the short story using Descartes’ Meditations I, II, and III. Please use quotes from both texts to demonstrate your points. Does Asimov support or call into question the methods and results of Descartes’ thought experiment? Explain. Cogito ergo sum Asimov’s short story “Reason” in I, Robot is about a fictional robot character which uses reason to perceive

In the epic poem The Odyssey written by Homer, Odysseus is a good leader because his men put their faith and loyalty in him and Odysseus can use his wits to get his men out of deadly crises. One quality that establishes Odysseus’s leadership is that his men trust and believes in him. This is demonstrated when Telemachus stands watching as his father take a beating from Antinous, but as his father had wished, he keeps his feelings internalized, “Telemachus, after the blow his father bore, sat still

novelist. He observed a society filled with arrogant, racial hypocrisy. In his fictional novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Twain brings criticism to the hypocritical society of his day. Twain argues that society was covered in a veil of self-deception and religious leaders taught hypocritical and absurd religious values. Twain crafts his writings with characters like; The Widow Douglas, Miss Watson and Silas Phelps; all well-intentioned Christians, but their religion has deceived them into thinking

The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice is William Shakespeare’s play, written around sixteen hundreds. The Tragedy of Othello is not just a story of jealousy; this is a tragedy of the clash of two worlds. One of them is a world of absolute cynic, manipulate or Iago; the second world is the world of all the other characters in the tragedy, including, possibly, even Othello. Even though both of the main male characters, Iago and Othello, are murderers, they have different types of characters, cause

dominance, the Germans embraced Hitler’s doctrines. By 1943 after the Tehran Conference the shape and focus of the Cold War was determined; there would only be two super powers remaining. The power that won the most in WWII was Stalin; a master of deception and guile. Throughout history, conflict had always broken out between enemies when the appearance of deterrence — the material and spiritual likelihood of using greater military power successfully against an aggressive enemy — vanished. From

Army Psychological Operations. This paper will focus on the founder of doctrinal Psychological Warfare for the U.S. Army and the legacy he left for those to follow. The Making of the Master A native of Mattoon, Illinois, McClure joined the Army in 1915 and earned his commission as an Army officer in 1917, serving seventeen years as a Captain in a variety of assignments throughout the U.S., the Philippines, China and England. While serving

Pick one character in the play with whom you could connect to on some level. Analyze that character’s journey in the play using the following questions. After watching this master piece, the character I could totally relate to was the baker and his wife and the obstacles, and choices, they had to endure to get their happy ending. In this story the baker and his wife wanted a child off their own, and will stop at nothing to get it. The baker’s neighbor, an ugly witch, unraveled the source of