This animal imagery conforms to the stereotypical image of a bestial and violent black man that existed in that era. However, when he is needed, such as in Act 1 Scene 1, the rest of society are able to overlook his black skin and even flatter him so that Othello defends the city to the best of his ability. An example of this is when the Duke calls him ‘Valiant Othello’. He uses this because he needs
Knavery’s plain face is never seen til us’d. As this quote says to be a villain you have to be deceitful, cunning, and manipulative. These characteristics are all commonly associated with the concept of evil and are displayed in the play Othello by William Shakespeare and in the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The villains in these two texts are both evil as they manipulate and harm other people in their lives who trust them and think of them as moral citizens and not as villains. In Othello Iago, Othello’s most trusted friend and ally, deceives and manipulates everyone in the play to bring about Othello’s downfall.
Unfortunately for Othello, this means he is faced with a lot of racial slurs and judgements. Throughout the text, Othello is constantly referred to with beastial imagery and names that relate to his skin colour. For example, the first person to describe him to us is Iago in the lines “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.” This gives us a very ugly first image of Othello, which is completely wrong, after we find out that he is actually a very loyal man who deserves to be seen as more than what Iago explains him to be. Also, the reason why Iago choose to sabotage Othello’s relationship with his new wife, Desdemona is because Iago thinks that Othello has slept with his wife, Emilia, without having any proof of this, and also because Othello gave the job that Iago was waiting to be promoted to Cassio, another Venetian man. This shows how unfair the targeting of Othello to be sabotaged was.
A Soldier’s Story: Irony At Its Finest In the motion picture A Soldier’s Story by Gavin Hood, there are significant cases of irony that are displayed through three of the characters: Sergeant Waters, Peterson, and C.J. Memphis. Waters believes that C.J. is an embarrassment to the African-American race and too loyal to white society while also being a simpleton. Ironically, Waters himself is a sycophant when it comes to his superior white officers.
Revenge is often seen as a person’s way to “get even” after he or she has suffered, in attempt to harm the wrongdoer in retaliation. The only purpose of revenge is to gain satisfaction in seeing the wrongdoer suffer. Through ethical, religious and legal perspectives, revenge is not ever justified. The act upon taking revenge is unethical. For instance in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the feud between the Montagues and Capulets caused pain and suffering towards the innocent characters such as Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Tybalt.
The black man has been stereotyped in society from the ancient time period to present day. The physical attraction and the actions pursued by some black males have been used against the specific population as a form of ridicule and humiliation. How have the black men in society been portrayed over the last decades? The answer is negative. These stereotypes are not set in stone facts but only assumptions throughout society that the media substantiates and worsens the brighter picture.
Thick with theme “The 548” by John Cheever Mr. Blake is a man with many secrets and few meaningful relationships. Blake loves the feeling of control, so much so that he manipulates his own mind into believing things that make his role in life seem loftier. Blake lacks the ability to empathize which leaves him open to taking advantage of other people’s weaknesses. Miss Dent is mentally unstable and therefore a perfect target for Blake’s misdirected unhappiness and self-loathing. Blake represents evil in “The 548”.
This seems that it is the gender that affects the conflict and as traditions followed then, it was the men that ran society and made the decisions for women. Romeo and Juliet also takes place in a masculine world in which notions of honour, pride and status are all major to everyone and these factors can escalate to violence. The violence in the play’s social environment is a dramatic tool that Shakespeare creates to make the lover’s romance seem even more precious, valuable and fragile: their relationship is scene by society as an insignificant feeling of love in a significant world of hate. The fights between Mecutio and Tybalt and then Romeo and Tybalt are surreal. Passion outweighs reason at every point and Shakespeare wants to highlight the young love in this masculine society as well as show it is the men that cause conflict and a world of hate.
Othello is afflicted with a jealous tendency and inability to understand others and their motives. Together these two characteristics make him particularly weak compared to people like Iago who is very good at reading others, and especially good in knowing how to work Othello. In Scene 5 Iago, who also isolates Othello, increases the jealousy and then manipulates Othello into thinking that he is making it up, Iago says “beware my lord of the green eyed monster”. The first major influence we see that influences and foreshadows Othello’s down fall/death is the fact that he is too
In conclusion, it is extremely transparent that Tom is a more corrupt character compared to Jay Gatsby. His dishonesty, jealousy and lack of moral values exemplify his corruptness. In comparison to Gatsby, we see many similar traits and actions between these two characters with vastly different consequences. Gatsby’s motivations are pure when seeking his true love while Tom’s motivations are malicious and intend to hurt others. Cited Work Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Matthew J. Bruccoli.