Shakespeare Quarterly Essays

Confidence and Othello’s Destruction Society often perceives confidence as a positive trait. However, in Othello, Shakespeare examines the theme of confidence in Desdemona and Othello’s characters and how their varying levels of confidence cause their downfalls. Through the results of the tragedy, Othello demonstrates that having an excess of confidence, whether based on truths or lies, can be dangerous. Desdemona is confident that she can persuade Othello on Cassio’s behalf, and her persistence

A Case Study on Polluter’s Dilemma I. Background/Point of View On a small plastic manufacturing, Jonica Gunson works as an environmental compliance manager. The company where she is working with is now facing a serious situation that needs to have a fast and decisive decision, decision whether to invest or not to invest money on new technology that will help decrease or as possible eliminate the level of toxic in the water which is flowing from the back of the factory up to lake. Though the company

Watching Women Final Four Championship game was a new experience for me because i never actually watched any female sports other than gymnastics. watching wasn’t the only first experience i participated in, having to actually listen closely to the commentators to what they say and how they say it, because normal for individuals to be so focused into the game that often whatever those commentators say falls on deaf ears, because your focus isn’t their mentally to pick up and comprehend what’s being

“The Circle” isn’t just a novel that has to do with technology and romance, it has greater meaning behind it. Dave Egger’s writing in the novel captures deep meaning in the words he uses. “This novel is distinct from social satire in viewing moral defects less as flaws of a character than as intellectual previsions.” (Atwood, 1) “The Circle is an ancient symbol that’s had a variety of incarnations. This novel makes the reader put itself in the characters shoes.” (Atwood, 2) Dave Egger’s childhood

Annotated Bibliography Butcher, Philip. "Othello's Racial Identity." Shakespeare Quarterly 3.3 (1952): 243-247. file:///C:/Users/user/Downloads/Article%204.pdf The article discusses the race of Shakespeare's Othello that has been debated since the publication of Joseph Hunter's New Illustrations of Shakespeare in 1845. Scholars and critics have taken Shakespeare's references to Othello as "black" and "thick-lipped" literally. While some interpret him as a swarthy or light-brown Moor from northern

Iago Manipulation “Othello, the Moor of Venice” is a Shakespearean play which talks about the life of Othello who is a general in the Vatican army. Also, featured in the play is Iago, a junior Vatican army officer under whose traits and habits other characters suffer severely (Bevington, 2014). In the play, Iago happens to be a manipulative figure who uses the trust and weaknesses of other characters to ruin them in various ways, including revenge against Othello for what he refers to as the latter’s

people cannot seem to not talk about Shakespeare and his plays. Thousands of professionals have been analyzing his works coming up different theories on his themes. Not only people with extreme qualifications have studies Shakespeare, but also countless classrooms have dived into what makes his works so great. The biggest aspect that set Shakespeare apart from other writers of his time is not just how he wrote, but what he talked about. During the 1500s, Shakespeare wrote about topics that were not discussed

Iago, the manipulative wordsmith, seems to be one of Shakespeare’s best depiction of a maniacal character who can not only deceive others but also make those around him trust what he is saying while also moving them in the direction of their eventual sad end. He is a man who has loose morals and has no problem using his place and power in the military to any advantage that he sees fit. The seeds of deceit In the beginning of any great play we see the characters and make assumptions of their character

Dealing with Deceit ¨You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.¨ - Phineas T. Barnum. While the characters in Othello and Macbeth both dealt with rhetoric in divergent means they were also confronted by rhetoric in different approaches. In Othello the characters naively credited everything Iago said as true without question. While in Macbeth the main characters strived to alter the witches’ prophecy

Henry V is a play that is rooted in war which displays the battle between France and England. The play is centred around King Henry V and the tactics he uses to succeed in overthrowing or winning the war against France.King Henry V uses persuasion to try to convince the French and the Britain’s that he is atoning for the sin his father had committed.The posters above would be used to discuss the ways in which the theme of Leadership, War and Appearance versus Reality pervades or is prominent in

Abstract Tennessee Williams has been regarded as the greatest Southern dramatist and one of the most distinguished playwrights in the history of American drama. He is undoubtedly the most renowned American dramatist of the second half of the 20th Century. This paper addresses and explores some of the main features of his dramatic works. His drama was a lyric or poetic one, and that is why the critic and scholar Frank Durham referred to him as “Tennessee Williams, theater poet in prose”. When David

“You’re a blank, a cipher… a zero.” (Albee, 1962, p.18). With these words, Martha the main character in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” showed her husband, George, that he was nothing. Edward Albee, the writer of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” talked mainly about Martha and George who pretend to have different identities just in order not to face reality. Moreover, Arthur Miller, the author of “A View from the Bridge” presented the idea of identity in a different way. Miller used the character

To protest that some fairly improbable people, some people who could not possibly respect themselves, seem to sleep easily enough is to miss the point entirely, as surely as those people miss it who think that self-respect has necessarily to do with not having safety pins in one’s underwear. There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and

Shakespeare presents death as an inevitable act of life, noting that all that is living must eventually come to an end. Due to “Hamlet” being a Shakespearean tragedy, the theme of death recurs throughout the play. Additionally, Shakespeare can be seen as using revenge as the main motive of a character’s murder, which makes “Hamlet” a revenge tragedy. The tragic nature means that by the end of the play, majority of the characters would have died. In this case, many of the characters have died due

In the film Raging Bull, the main character Jake LaMotta goes through a long and grueling conflict with himself in the search for sanity. The victories and titles that he spends his whole life searching after wind up ruining his life and destroying the relationships he cherished the most. The problem that Jake faces the most is his lack of humility and his personified arrogance, also known as hubris. As Jake’s life and career progress, his inability to control this hubris lead him to rock bottom

The Tragedy of King Richard the Second is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1595-1596. It is the first in a four-part, “tetralogy,” (Bevington, 2014). As a whole, the plays tell the story of the political turmoil in England between 1390 and 1485. The other three plays in this historical chronical are the two parts of Henry IV and Henry V. In part, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second is a play about how King Richard II failed his country through poor leadership. Richard believes he has been

explores the question of whether Shakespeare and his works are still relevant to the culture of today. Shakespeare remains relevant through the themes of love, identity, and death, and relate to the issues and feelings of the modern world. Love can be related to how people act with their partners, mainly regarding sexual love, and can be seen in the innuendoes and scenes Shakespeare used and those used today. Identity can be related to modern times by how Shakespeare used the plot device of having

Courtly love in the medieval romance story of Lancelot (also known as The Knight of the Cart) is the driving force of this famous romance beloved for generations. This proves to be an interesting subject, seeing is a lot of other medieval stories do not focus on love and instead, show it in a rather negative light. This was obviously seen in another medieval story, Njal’s Saga, where not only were marriages arranged and sometimes unwanted by one or both parties, the relationships between men and

Its common knowledge that Shakespeare is one of the best writers in the world. He has created numerous plays with some truly memorable and touching plots, along with a handful of distinguished lead roles. And one of them being Hamlet, Shakespeare 's creation of Hamlet is insane, loving, and determined. Shakespeare appealed to a part of the human mind that isn 't influenced by its innate culture, and this is why many actors have tried their skills on Shakespearean plays, from high-school kids to

Topic: Characterization of Judge Brack through Stage Directions and Dialogue in Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler Title: Speech and Stage Direction: Characterization in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler 1. Introduction a) The stage directions in a play can be used to give directions to the actors and illustrate multiple features of characters. b) Henrik Ibsen utilizes this technique, alongside dialogue, to shed light on the characterization in his plays, especially in Hedda Gabler. c) The play tells a tragedy about