“I follow him to serve my turn upon him.” (Iago, Act 1 Scene 1). This quote shows how we learn that Othello is already disliked by one main character within the play. At the end of the scene, we learn that Othello has secretly married Desdemona. In Act 1 scene 2, after we learn that Othello has secretly married Desdemona – Brabantio’s daughter, we see a side Othello that we don’t expect to see so early on in the play. He is quite sneaky about his marriage to Desdemona and then when he is searched for, and confronted by the Brabantio and then the Duke, Othello shows how big-headed and egotistic he is.
But he does. While Hamlet slowly is driven mad by visits from the ghost of his father and the scheming plots of his uncle Claudius, the one thing that actually keeps Hamlet focused and centered are his feelings for Ophelia. Hamlet’s seemingly unreasonable actions and questionable motives toward her are all part of a ruse to fool everybody at court and actually protect her from being used as leverage by the murderous King Claudius. There are several moments where Hamlet professes his love for Ophelia in moments where he didn’t have to, which in my opinion point to where his heart really lies. Let’s explore the moments within the text where Hamlet actually used his smarts to trick the other conniving characters into thinking that he didn’t love Ophelia and was going insane instead.
Othello then sees and claims Iago to be ‘honest’ throughout the play and believing all the lies that is told to him. This shows that Othello was not responsible for the bulk of the tragedy but being very gullible and not thinking twice for his actions towards his surroundings and helping Iago’s plan for revenge. Quoted by Iago in Act 3 Scene 3, “Men should be what they seem”, gives the irony of illusion and reality. There is an extensive jealousy with Othello and thinking Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio using the napkin Othello gave to Desdemona as the symbol between them, building a chaotic wrath inside
At the beginning of the play, we get an introduction which fulfills the audience's previous views of Cleopatra. Philo explains, "Nay but this dotage of our general's o'er flows the measure," and "to cool a gipsy's lust" lull the audience into a false sense of security before severely disrupting it and playing with their ability to make judgments. The juxtaposition of scenes contributes a significant amount to the complexity of Cleopatra's character. Also the combination of love and war is tightly knitted together to form an interesting contrast. The dramatic form reflects the chief thematic concerns of the play.
In this essay, I am going to explain how Shakespeare manages to sympathize with these protagonists. During the play of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare manages to effectively describe the tragedy of their relationship. He achieves this by creating sympathy for the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, which consequently affects the audience of the play. At the beginning of the play the audience is told that it will all end in disaster. This is emphasised with the fact that the two young lovers foreshadow their own death.
Throughout the play, different characters expose the audience to both positive and negative examples of honor through various scenarios. In his play. Henry IV, William Shakespeare used his characters and storyline to teach the audience lessons of honor and moral character. We are lead throughout the play mostly by Prince Hal, who has found himself at a serious crossroads in his life, as he debates the man he is and the man he will become. Whether he is conscious of it or not, Hal takes mental notes on characteristics that he likes and dislikes in the people he encounters.
Shakespeare creates this jealousy to show the audience the racism in most of the characters speeches about and towards Othello and also to show the audience the types of characters Cassio and Othello could be before we have met them in Act 1, Scene 1. It is important to consider what the key reasons are for his jealousy and to think about how an original Jacobean audience would have responded to the way Iago talks about Othello and Cassio. Iago’s jealousy of Cassio is first suggested to the audience in Act 1, Scene 1 when Iago is talking to Roderigo about Othello making Cassio lieutenant and not him. It is clear to an audience that Iago is envious of Cassio because he is talking about him and saying he is a ‘counter-caster’ and ‘Nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster—unless the bookish theoric’. Iago is saying these things because he is outraged at the fact that Othello didn’t make him lieutenant even though three of Venice’s most important noblemen took their hats off to him and asked him humbly to make Iago his lieutenant, the second in command.
This adds pathos to Romeo and Juliet’s struggle to attain happiness as we know they are doomed to fail. Act One Scene One introduces the audience to the themes, the mood of play and the characters; particularly establishing the theme of conflict. Conflict and violence are dominant throughout most of the play, but are introduced mainly in the first scene. The first sign of this is through a conversation
This makes her questions the sanity of Hamlet throughout the play: "It's worth examining Hamlet's condition and asking whether the apparition is truly there or not"(1). At the beginning it was obvious that Hamlet was pretending to be mad, for example, n Act 3 he was aware of Claudius and Polonius existence and the fact that Ophelia was sent by them to trap him, they use her as a bait to spy on him, that's why he pretends madness, he acts in a weird way as he makes strange expressions and contradictory statements, he acts in a strange way because he knows that he is being watched by Polonius and Claudius. He used clever words in this scene ,his remarks are clearly coming out of the mouth of an intelligent man, "Even so far , Hamlet is not truly insane"(2). She adds that what makes us more convinced of Hamlet's sanity is his plan to perform a play in front of the king; he named the play mouse trap, furthermore "His plan works, and Claudius raises from his seat before the play is over". The play Hamlet's prepare was exactly what has happened between his father and his uncle; this was intentional by him to watch the reaction of the
Not only is this affecting his brain, but his ability to think and his sight, which is why he is imagining the floating “dagger”. Thirdly, the line “As this which now I draw” Shakespeare is structurally creating dramatic tension between Macbeth and the audience. This may cause sensationalism to the audience members. The word “draw” and “now” is linking stage direction and Shakespeare puts emphasis on the two words to show importance and to make it stand out. Macbeth is viewed as a very complex and conflicted character.