Othello - William Shakespeare

Below is the english essay I wrote on the Shakespeare play Othello, this is one of my better works and I recieved a very high mark for my efforts. Although it does not cover the whole play it does answer the question set and anlayses the play in detail. Everything we need to know about Othello can be found in Act 1 Scene 3 by analysing the scene carefully to show how it prepares us for the rest of the play. What issues are raised in this scene? How does Shakespeare make this scene dramatic? Othello is a play written by William Shakespeare that he wrote between the years 1601 and 1605. It was ... more

Like many other mainstream poets, novelists and playwrights, I first became exposed to the works of Shakespeare when I was at school. I remember watching an animated version of a Midsummer Night’s Dream when I was about fourteen, and then we progressed to Romeo and Juliet when I taking my GCSE English Literature. At the time I found these texts fairly entertaining (the latter having been made popular by the modern film take on it) but I was never as excited by the famous bard as I thought I ought to be. Still loving the academic subject however, I continued to A Level standard and was ... more

below is my essay on racism and sexism in othello, i particularly enjoyed this play as it had a strong and unpredictable story line. In many ways ‘Othello’ seems to reinforce racist attitudes as many of the characters show a great deal of racism towards Othello, for example, Iago shows racism when he tells Brabantio that Desdemona has married Othello and he tries to impose his racist views onto Brabantio by saying, ‘an old black ram is tupping your white ewe’. Iago also describes Othello as a ‘Barbary horse’. Brabantio also shows racist towards Othello but to his face as well as just behind ... more

As I am studying Othello for A Level I believe that I can boast an adequate understanding of the play. Written by Shakespeare it is one of the 4 great tragedies and in my opinion, the most exciting and suspense filled. The source comes from a collection of 112 short stories called the Cinthio Gli Hecatommithi written by Cinthio, an Italian writer in the 16th century. Twice as long as Macbeth, Othello boasts a complex but compelling plot and an admirable stretch of different characters. The synopsis is basically thus: Othello is a black African moor and weds Desdemona in secret; a girl of high ... more

When I started 4th Year at high school we were told we would be reading William Shakespeare's "Othello". To start with we were all thinking that it would be another boring old piece of literature but when we started reading, it turned out to be more original than Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. I started to thouroughly enjoy it, and even though it was a bit of a drag to have to do it again recently in 5th Year, it brought back to my mind the significance of nearly every scene of the play. One of the things I will not do in this review is give the plot away - my English teacher unfortunately ... more