It also becomes clear that Socrates seems to have known this all along and is actually trying to show Euthyphro that each man has his own idea of what piety is, and that there is no absolute truth concerning piety or impiety. Euthyphro is an account of a conversation that Socrates has with a religious figure before his famous trial for impiety. Upon learning that Euthyphro is bringing murder charges against his own father, for the death of a slave, Socrates decides that Euthyphro must be an authority on what is and is not pious. Hoping to learn from Euthyphro in order to appeal to those who will judge him, Socrates asks Euthyphro to share the secret of piety with him. Euthyphro begins by stating that piety is “doing as I do” (Guttengerg.org, 2008).
Secondly this essay will examine Don Pedro, Leonato and Claudio tricking Benedick into thinking that Beatrice love him and Hero and Ursula tricking Beatrice into thinking that Benedick is in love with her. And lastly this essay will highlight Don John and his sidekick Borachio tricking Claudio and Don Pedro into believing that Hero is unfaithful to Claudio. To begin with, we must first discuss Don Pedro tricking and wining Hero for Claudio. Don Pedro and his soldiers win a battle and returns home back in to Messina to stay with Leonato. Don Pedro tells Leonato that Claudio showed good service in the battle.
Firstly, Deception is a major theme within the play. Despite Richard’s physical deformity he was still charismatic and could effectively play with people’s emotions. Richard, after killing Anne’s husband seeks to gain her hand in marriage but was cursed by her saying "Never hung poison on a fouler toad. Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.” In spite of her obvious dislike towards him, he successfully wins her over by falsely proclaiming his love for her saying “Your beauty was the cause of that effect; Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep.” The diction used in this scene highlights Richard’s deceiving skills.
The trials start, in which the girls act as though they have a direct connection to God, led by the now powerful Abigail. Townsfolk soon have suspicions of Miss Williams affair with John, Abigail finds this power she has and takes advantage of it. One accusation against even the most well-respected villagers accused of devil worship was prosecuted. Abigail is convinced that after her affair with John Proctor, that he is in love with her, her jealousy of his wife and desire for him gets out of hand, she is labelled a “whore” and a “harlot”. John Proctor – John is an honest, blunt-spoken, good man with a temper.
Othello is susceptible to lago’s evil. In the beginning we find Othello to be a sensible general. Confronted by his father-in-law’s bullies, Othello disarms his words to stop a fight waiting to happen. He defends his marriage to Desdemona right in front of the Venetian Senate. With this in mind he then travels to the war zone in Cyprus where his strong emotions soon take over.
In calling Othello ‘Barbary horse’ and ‘black ram’, Iago associates carnality and animality with Othello and blackness. Yet as much as Iago’s rhetoric, and Othello’s own later self-construction, makes Othello carnal, exotic or monstrous, he is also human and sympathetic, vulnerable to Iago’s machinations partly because his difference makes him an easy target. Throughout the play, Shakespeare explores a rhetoric of ‘blackness’, but always with an ironic distance. When Desdemona believes that the sun has drawn away Othello’s jealous ‘humour’ (3.4.31), she refers to black bile, one of the four ‘humours’ that were thought to affect human emotion. Othello uses ‘black’ to refer to Desdemona’s fraught reputation, ‘begrimed and black/ as mine own face’ (3.3.390-1), and also talks of ‘black vengeance’(3.3.450).
Sunday 11th December English- How does Shakespeare Present ideas about Reputation in Othello? Throughout the play Othello, reputation is a continuous theme demonstrating the importance of reputation at the time when the play was set and the effects a ruined reputation can have among the characters. Iago uses his reputation as an honest man to deceive Othello and every other character in the play; including his own wife. Othello's reputation plays a key role throughout the play as he is portrayed as the courageous Moor who is the only one skilled enough to protect Venice. His reputation also helps him avoid punishment from the Duke of Venice by marrying Brabantio’s daughter Desdemona.
The character of Iago is portrayed in very different ways throughout the play. He is firstly conveyed as a mysterious character, as in the first scene himself and Roderigo are talking about Othello but they do not say his name. He is one of the main protagonists in the play and Shakespeare cleverly portrays him in different ways throughout the play. Iago and Roderigo both refer to Othello as ‘he’, ‘The Moor’ and ‘an old black ram’. This makes Iago mysterious as we do not know whether he likes Othello or whether he is extremely jealous of him.
Furthermore, he feared facing the despiteful changes in the moods of Venice Senators against him. We observe a similar trend in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo killed himself possibly fearing to be arrested for killing Paris. Although typically love does not cause tragedies, as in these plays, regret and sorrow can be the ending of any relationship that is not based on logic, and parental blessings. Love is the dangerous cause of all the tragedies in both of the plays. The effect of love is very profound in Othello in the sense that Desdemona escaped her father’s house to marry a back Moor called Othello in the beginning of the play.
Even though this story has many themes and motifs, this Shakespearean tragic is full of racist descriptions and prejudice remarks. In the opening act, Iago and Roderigo are discussing the protagonist of the show from the dark. However, Othello’s name is never said during the talk, but only words and phrases are used to give the reader a description of him. They repeatedly call him “The Moor” but they also say that, because of his race, he is not even a human or even worth a name. Roderigo calls Othello “thick lips” which is used again later when he is telling Desdemona’s father that “you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you’ll have your nephews neigh to you.” Using these descriptions only lead you to view Othello the same way that Iago and Roderigo do, not as his true stature but as a beast.