Iago’s Motivation For Manipulating and Destroying Other Characters In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago is the most notorious villain. It is clear that Iago feels that other people’s lives that surround him are insignificant. He will use people as pawns signifying that he feels life is simply a game. Iago is very deceitful; he is capable of manipulating anyone who fits into his master plan. Considering Iago […]

The color and shape I chose for Othello are silver and the indifferent shape. I thought about it for a while and this indifferent shape fits othello perfectly for many reasons. Like Othello this is the outsider of the group since it has no real shape. The shape’s physical appearance is different from the rest, just like Othello is since he’s a moor and has […]

We’ve all heard the saying, “You can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.” In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, this principle is applied to the relationships between the characters. The novel tells the tale of two companions, George and Lennie, who are travelling together looking for work and find themselves among many lonely characters. Steinbeck compares companionship to loneliness in order to show […]

In the stories The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurtson and The Waltz, by Dorothy Parker, the main characters find themselves acting under the tight social constraints that society projects on them. Their gender, race and class all dictate how they see themselves and how others see them, and therefore how they must act. Missie May, Joe and the narrator of The Waltz are all […]

Within Athol Fugard’s “The Road the Mecca”, there are three important female characters: Helen Martins, Elsa Marlow, and Katrina. Each one of these women face various struggles during the story such as old age, loneliness and many kinds of prejudice from the people living in New Bethesda and Cape Town. “This oppression is religious, social, marital and racial.” The first woman is Helen Martins. She […]

Edward Morgan Forster was born in 1879 in London. His father died before he was born and subsequently it was women who brought him up, his mother and great-aunt Marianne Thornton. Foster spent his childhood largely in the female company and in their sheltering presence, who no doubt gave him knowledge of how women were perceived and where their role was in the society. It […]

Act I sees the introduction of three important characters of the play, each taking up a different approach to authority. The Duke, Angelo and Escalus all use their power in a very different way, resulting in different consequences and effectiveness. The first position of authority we see in action is that of the Duke’s. The opening scene alerts the audience to the fact that the […]