Mock-heroic

Iago + Othello: A symbiotic relationship William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ is one of the most emotionally fraught and psychologically intense of all of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The deeply psychological ideas it explores such as the nature of narcissism and psychopathy become a concentrated concoction of jealousy, hatred, insecurity, rage and repressed sexual desires within their isolated setting on the Island of Cyprus. When one applies a psychoanalytic lens to the play the internal workings of the

completely immersed in a time previously known to them only through history books. Upon the first viewing I was restless, overwhelmed and unsuspecting of the sheer weight of what I had previously considered to be another film pandering to an audience of mock sympathy. By watching it a second time, I was fully capable of appreciating the stunning and emotionally demanding story of one man’s (at times, reluctant)

the prisoners humiliation and dehumanization, the experiment proved that environment is the main factor in the development of corruption and change in character of both guards and prisoners. Since then Philip Zimbardo has become the president of the Heroic Imagination Project. This organization provides tools and strategies to help individuals take positive action at crucial moments in their lives. Zimbardo also wrote a book on his psychological findings called The Lucifer Effect. He explains his experiment

Oedipus Rex is one of the most well- known tragic plays in existence. Oedipus, the King of Thebes, is the victim of a curse in which he must suffer the tragedy of his own unchangeable fate. The tragic heroism of Oedipus befalls him because of his heroic qualities and his loyalty to his Thebans and to himself. His unchangeable destiny affects so many others throughout the play. These others’ subsequent suffering that Oedipus brings upon them helps contribute to the tragic vision of the work as a

holds little value to the concept of honor. He insists it is simply just another word and the characters who desire it are fools. On the surface, Falstaff maintains this view throughout the play and in his final soliloquy he directly mocks everything possibly heroic, saying “What is honor? A word. What is in that word / “honor”? What is that “honor”? Air” (5.1.135) and “Honor is a mere scutcheon. And / so ends my catechism” (5.1.141-142). He thinks the word serves no purpose. To him honor means nothing

the Greeks during the Trojan War, “[Athena] caught up with Hector at once ​and taking the build and vibrant voice of Deiphobus… Athena luring him on with all her immortal cunning” (Beers Page 60). Furthermore, Poseidon curses Odysseus after Odysseus mocks his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus. Lastly, archetypal heroes always have adversaries whom they face. The Iliad matches the heroes Achilles and Hector against each other. Gilgamesh faces Humbaba and Beowulf faces

that Macbeth will fulfill his ambitions and make her queen. As well as Macbeth, she too is very ambitious and hopes for things of her own in her life as queen. She uses Macbeth to kill Duncan so that he can become king and she can become queen. She mocks Macbeth by calling him a coward and a woman, but the real cowardly act Macbeth commits was listening to his wife and murdering the king in his sleep. This deceitful woman convinces Macbeth that she will help him kill Duncan but she keeps changing her

Race Shakespeare • A fear of foreigners during Elizabethan times fostered misogynistic and racist values, which is evident in the way Othello’s blackness becomes a symbol of alienation to which all characters in the play must respond. • Using grotesque animal imagery, Iago voices an explicitly stereotypical view of Othello, as a “Barbary horse,” depicting him as an animalistic outsider. Through the image of conflict in black and white, Iago emphasises on the racial demarcation between

The Age of Dryden Erasmus Dryden was the younger of the Drydens. John was born in Aldwincle on Aug. 9th in 1631. They say he could possibly be named after his uncle whose name is John Pickering. His uncle John died in prison from illness in 1628 for defying his kings forced loans. The Pickerings who owned a lot of land near the place Dryden grew up. They also owned the church in Titchmarsh named st. Mary Virgin. In 1633 presbyterian Thomas Hill who knew his father From Emmanuel college came for a

Her clothes are covering—full length pants, boots, a mock turtle-neck shirt, and a thin jacket. These are clothes that seem perfectly practical for a secret agent to wear—not particularly noticeable and not constricting of uncomfortable. However, most female warriors are depicted scantily clad and/or in very